Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
For the sake of future information - I'll have to go windows 7 eventually - does it have the same effect as vista and break nearly everything that existed prior to its launch? Or did they include decent backwards compatibility this time?
Vista didn't break that much/anything for me so I cannot really comment on this, but 7 has generally been received much better as far as I'm aware.

Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
Also, would I be able to use directx9 in it?
Why wouldn't you?

Not sure how well it runs older games as I don't usually play them anymore, but the higher versions (professional and ultimate I think) come with an XP mode that might help in that regard, haven't tried that though, you may want to look around on the web if that's a big concern for you.