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Windows 7 Beta 1 is certainly not a platform to be using in a production environment, you're probably looking at a release date in Q1 2010. The bugs will be plentiful, the support minimal, and drivers scarce. You're certainly better off running under XP SP3 or even Vista, though performance wise I still don't think you'll beat XP. I wouldn't even consider using Windows Server 2008 (or really, any server software) for graphics production primarily because Server OS's generally place priority on network performance, timeslicing and memory allocation rather than CPU power and graphics performance.
it doesn't surprise me at all that there aren't patches for W7 yet, these will emerge after the release of the OS, not a year before :)
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