The next helping of Microsoft's OS's is due to be released on the 22nd of October.
Is anyone planning to have a go at it?

I've been using the beta edition on one of my other computers here and I must say (and this would be quite rare for a person with such an opinion of M$ software) that is definitely an improvement on Vista.

Mind you, after all the problems that users had with Vista, M$ really needed to lift their game.

Here's a bit of a run-down of what is offered in the new OS.

Article at Wikipedia.