Just to get the ball rolling:
Windows 7 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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More on 7: Windows 7 has one new feature - The INQUIRER
and http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/cont...38914-140.html

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Another feature on 7 :
What we do know about Windows 7 | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com

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There's not much that people know about Windows 7. But I hope the PDC Build will be as good as the Longhorn PDC Build!

According to this web site here: http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=2362 7 will be about performance. The page needs translation.

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Have a look here:
Engineering Windows 7 : Boot Performance

I am hopeful that this time Microsoft are really listening to advice (and criticism!)

Hmm... quick start-ups are fine and all but I find if your running your rig correctly then your boot times are going to be quicker anyway (that and a RAID set up too lol).
As you say, lets hope they're listening but from what the blog said about learning from the windows experience program it sounds like they are doing just that. (something I actively take part in too as this can only lead to better os's although the cynics will see it it as being used for better targeting using advertising)

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Microsoft has released details of the Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP), an option to be introduced in the DirectX implementation on Windows 7 that allows full DirectX 10 rendering using software-only rasterization. In other words it lets all rendering be done by the CPU, which although much, much slower than a dedicated graphics card, means any system will be able to run basic DX10 effects under Windows 7

In fact it'll run Crysis but only at about 3fps lol

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