OK I have been running the full release of Windows 7 for a couple of months with no problems BUT....... I dont have any astro hardware connected to the laptop.
The facts (As I see them)
Windows 7 X64 will ONLY use a windows 7 64bit signed driver

Windows 7 32bit will make use of any Vista driver so in theory if it worked on Vista it will be fine on Windows 7

Windows7 XP Compatability mode is Windows Virtual PC and as such it WONT SUPPORT USB Devices

I have quite a few astro apps running on my machine - Photoshop, Maxim, Registax and they run OK but as I say above hardware support is more limited - It needs to have at least a Vista driver but thats only valid if you use the 32bit version.

BTW I find Windows 7 much better than Vista - my laptop has 4GB of RAM and just running Vista it would be sitting at 78% in use, with Win 7 it's around half of that. Startup/shutdown is far better - the hard drive no longer grinds away for ages after starting up.
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