I am looking at information saying 7 should be out by Oct 22 2009.
7 looks good, we've been testing jazz with it at work, from some of the builds to the current RC. Still using XP at home, going to bypass Vista.
The Plan (Cylon humor) Install it fresh on a VelociRaptor drive on my current Gigabyte board hosting 4 gigs GSkill ram & a 2.8 Brisbane. Tech freind of mine has a Raptor mainly for the OS and he likes it alot but I'm going for the 150, for the OS, Nuance, SH3, & maybe GRAW2. Why not a SSD? Not sold on them quite yet. Besides I think the space vs. cost & speed makes the VR drive a better deal. I know I know, the 640's are on sale, well I'm not a big raid fan. I guess I'm kind of using 7 as an excuse to get a Raptor
Edited to add: I am looking forward to comparing 7's speech engine to Nuance 10.1 on a 10,000 rpm drive.