That was the question proposed on gizmodo, Is Windows 7 going to be the best windows version ever?

According to Microsoft, the answer seems to be yes ! Though Windows 7 look much like Windows Vista it is said to have many improvements (mostly under the hood).

Here are some of the new improvements (from gizmodo):

• If an application or device runs on Vista, it should run on Win 7.
• If a system runs Windows Vista, should run Windows 7 even faster.
• Notebooks should get better battery life in Windows 7.
• Windows 7 will be more reliable than Vista SP1 from Day 1.

If the above turn out to be true along with some other improvements, then this might be the OS that bring Microsoft back up towards the top again. I as a result am lookign forward to this OS, I can not tell for certain though if its going to be good because a lot of people thought vista was going to be good but it turned out to stink.  I can how ever give my opinion on it more and explain if I think its good or bad after the OS becomes release as a developers only release, then I’ll go more indepth on comparing it to Vista