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According to The Windows Blog, http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/06/02/the-date-for-general-availability-ga-of-windows-7-is.aspx, Windows 7 will be in stores by Oct 22 and RTM in late July.
I am using the Windows 7 Release Candidate on my non-production machine and so far, so good. There is every reason to think that Windows 7 will be dramatically better than Vista, so I am looking forward to late July, and not just because it will finally be sunny for more than 4 or 5 days in a row in Seattle.
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Last night, I spoke at the San Diego .NET Developers Group. I spent some time changing fonts in Visual Studio to make the screen easier to see on the projector. I changed the Environment font and I also docked the properties window side by side with the Solution Explorer rather than below it. The talk went fine but about 2/3 of the way into it VS crashed when I ran one of the demos. It was not a coding error, because the demo works fine and it ran fine the second time I tried it. This morning, I set my fonts back and redocked the Properties window below the Solution Explorer. I started working on a project and VS crashed again.
Vista checked for problems and pointed me to the following KB article: FIX: When you undock some windows or change the window layout in the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 IDE, the IDE crashes (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960075). Turns out, there is a known issue in VS 2008 SP1 where if you move your windows around VS crashes. The hotfix supposedly fixes this. Someone commented that selecting Windows|Reset All Windows solved the problem of the crashing without needing the hotfix. Some people who installed the hotfix lose IntelliSense on XAML file, but got it back when they did a repair on VS.
See http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB960075 to get the hotfix and read the comments.