Got windows 7 build 7068 running in a VM today on my mac.  Haven't done much with it yet other than a few basic settings, but it installed real fast and seems to run pretty quickly.  I'll be loading up development tools tonight and we'll see how it performs under load.  One thing I did notice different is that many of the panels in various windows (like control panel) have slide transitions, which I kind of liked.

Here's a few pictures:

How about with some mac wallpaper?

News from Scott Gu on development...

• New Win 7 APIs: ribbon, jump lists, libraries, multi-touch, directx
• VS 2010 will have support for large code bases, multi-core
• .net 3.5 sp1 will built into win 7

Scott showed how to add a ribbon to a WPF app.  A new Ribbon control coming this week.  XAML tag used was WPF:Ribbon.

There will be touch events to core WPF events.

Scott shows a neat example of tagging photos, and navigating with a spring control.  Following on that he says that a new WPF toolkit available today containing: datagrid, datepicker, calendar, ribbon, VSM.  How about that SpringGraph?

.NET 4 Improvements:

• wpf improvemnts: mt, deep zoom, vsm, text
• fundamentals: inproc side by support (2/4 in same address), managed / native code interop improvements, DLR, extensible component model (ability to add extensions to existing apps)
  

More...

• Improved tooling in 2010. 
• VS.NET 2010 will be build on WPF. 
• ability to create tests first, then auto generate classes.
• Source editor is in WPF.
• I saw use of a System.ComponentModel.Composition namespace.  This looks interesting.
• Managed extensibility framework is a part of .NET 4
  

Now David Treadwell is talking.

Live Mesh

• Will be built into live services
• Ability to connect users to their devices
• Live Frameworks gets you at the live services

Now seeing a demo on how to enhance an app with the live framework...  Meshifying...
Seeing a class called LiveOperatingEnvironment
Linq queries against the cloud

Wow!  What a sync demo they just showed.  Took pictures.  Will add them shortly.

Now seeing a desktop Silverlight app BBC player.
Watching a video that my friends think is cool
Phone gets video synced, and resumes playing where you stopped.

Mac support for mesh coming this week.

Now showing integration of office apps with web and mobile.  Small versions of offices apps are being moved to the web.