Apparently, it's Microsoft's intention to do away with the sidebar. It's still conjecture, until the final version ships.
Vista and Win 7 must share a lot of internals. Drivers for Vista work for Win 7. From what I can gather, Win 7 is an incremental change (despite Microsoft marketing it as otherwise). The phrase I've read on a couple of sites is "what the server team [at Microsoft] would have called an interim release (e.g. Vista R2).
Microsoft are apparently using some new profiling technique to identify poorly performing code paths, in order to optimise the hell out of them. We're at build 7000, no publically released beta and it already performs well. With perhaps 6 to 9 months left before it goes gold, there should be some good things to come!
Vista and Win 7 must share a lot of internals. Drivers for Vista work for Win 7. From what I can gather, Win 7 is an incremental change (despite Microsoft marketing it as otherwise). The phrase I've read on a couple of sites is "what the server team [at Microsoft] would have called an interim release (e.g. Vista R2).
Microsoft are apparently using some new profiling technique to identify poorly performing code paths, in order to optimise the hell out of them. We're at build 7000, no publically released beta and it already performs well. With perhaps 6 to 9 months left before it goes gold, there should be some good things to come!