The IT crowd will want to pickup a copy and test drive Windows 7 with the latest version of MS Office.  I”m betting businesses will hesitate to make an early investment due to budget concerns and the economy.

As for me, my primary home computer is running XP Professional with office 2003 and OpenOffice 3 for XP. My second computer is running Ubuntu 9.04 server with OpenOffice 3.

I have always been a fan of opensource software http://www.osalt.com/ and Linux ditributions http://distrowatch.com/

With Linux live CD’s all you have to do is download and burn an ISO, load the CD and test drive Linux. In the old days installing and configuring involved some tech savvy skills these days everything works just as well as Microsoft if not better.