Well, this isn't encouraging...

Just stopped by our IT department at work; our sysadmin guru was installing Windows 7 on a test PC (one of our standard configurations -- a Dell GX620.) According to him, it had already bluescreened once on him. While I was there, he was running into a bunch of other errors -- during the install process. Admittedly, he was trying to upgrade an existing XP installation, but this is still not a good sign.

Very often, Windows installation errors are due to user error; I've seen this happen many times. But this guy knows his stuff -- if he made a mistake, it's because it's there waiting to be made.

Looks like XP or Linux for the foreseeable future, for me...