My writing is crippled by examples and illustrations that have my readers wondering what I want to say. So Ok I'll limit it to one subject, maybe two (three maximum). Anyone watching the NASA channel knows you won't know any more in a week than before you started watching. Then the press releases a biggie and you feel cheated. Where does it say here that a starter edition is being released here? Yes we read something vague about "emerging markets have unique needs and we will offer Windows 7 Home Basic" but I defy the uninformed to interpret that correctly.The New(?) "3 Application Maximum [simultaneously]" is what makes today's news so juicy. Microsoft (in so many words) is selling XP for $15, the news goes on to say, and it will need (they say) to compete with google.Which sort of brings me to my bottom line. I've got a 2004-era computer that would have made some top benchmarks then, and the family system is a tiny notebook that is happy with it's own Vista Premium. We know now that Editions of Windows 7 will be smaller, cheaper, and if you don't multitask, you'll be happy it runs on very little. What about the people who invested in quad core? What about the people who believed the press in 2005 (or so) and invested in lots more RAM, to the tune of 4 gigabytes? If we did this-that and the-other-thing, we'd need it. Only we didn't, Vista arguably is extremely happy with 1.5 or two gigs. No one really knew what 64-bit processor was for, being that 4 gigs was plenty of memory, but the overall feeling was that more bits was faster. Mostly, wrong. So the really excessive hardware (I'm not,repeat not talking about video), mostly went unused. Will we finally be rewarded? Let me be more specific, right this second, a very few old games I have run at a given speed on XP. They run 15% to 20% slower on Vista.I wouldn't want to write down a number for win7 just now, except to say I think it's slightly faster than Vista, possibly due to its more focussed attitude. I know you've really focused on leaner/meaner, Now I hope there is still time to flex your muscles and show off a little. Thousands of desktop clocks? Calculators calculating impossibly fast? Or just quake I running so fast it's all blurry. Silly I know but I hope you get the idea.If you can do more with less, think what you can do with lots!