Don't get it, ive heard it is very buggy, rather wait for Vista to be released.
Most of your programs should work, but you won't be able to get a lot of drivers.
Yeah the drivers are the BIG problem... there is none for my sound card, and digital camera, and some more, don't remember I know that about a month ago it was almost impossible to mount an image, but since the new Deamon-tools is released...
I was using it for a while, maybe a week. It worked fine but there isnt to much support for it yet. Again I couldnt get sound card drivers and some of the games I played were glitchy compared to the 32bit xp pro. I agree with anphrax, wait for vista.