Microsoft.Windows.7.ULTIMATE.x86.Integrated.Decmber.2009

That's because there are still content deals for Media Center to lock

down and it doesn't have the Windows 7 web browser ballot scren that

users in Europe will see when they set up a Windows 7 PC (new or

upgraded).

But this is the final code you'll be using from day to day - the last

few bugs and the debug code of the Release Candidate are gone - and

it's the first time we can tell whether Microsoft has delivered what

Senior VP Steven Sinofsky promised last autumn: "Making Windows 7

compelling and easier to get used to."

Windows 7 has to woo Windows XP users who have resisted Vista by

offering performance and compatibility as well as extra features, and

it has to entice Vista users who feel they should have had the

performance and compatibility all along by convincing them that it's

more than a service pack.

And given how many people have tried out the pre-release versions of

Windows 7, the RTM has to dot the i's, cross the t's and feel truly

finished.

It's a tall order. Can Windows 7 deliver all that, compete with OS X

Snow Leopard and stave off the attack of Android and Chrome OS at the

low end? Is it a Windows you'll actually want to use?