Fortunately, I've never gotten into gaming, so any improvements there would be lost on me.
I won't be holding my breath for Win7's release, as I haven't even run Vista for any significant length of time. Most of my machines are still on 2000 (if it ain't broke...). But I do find it interesting that Win7's press is following pretty much the same route as everything since 2000. Lots of pre-release fans, lots of claimed improvements, a few non-fans saying it's got big problems. In the end, it does well enough for most people to be satisfied.
My office mate runs Vista and hates it (he hates Office 07 more (too many additional clicks needed for common tasks)); my boss loves it. :-/
In the end, Win7 will sell a lot of copies as MS's OSes always do...
Where's my UberOS that will let me run anything seamlessly in a virtual machine? That seems to have been promised almost as long as flying cars... It would be nice if Snow Leopard let one run Windows truly seamlessly side-by-side with OS X (Parallels is nice, but one is always aware that it's not as fast as being directly on the hardware)...
Cheers,
Scott.