Yes, the time has come for yet another release of windows.  They call this one Vista 2 Windows 7 and I will admit that I’m hopeful.  Much like Windows ME, well, sucked but was reedemed by XP… I’m hoping that Windows 7 will reedem Vista.  Not that vista is all that bad anymore.  In fact, I run it on two of my three PC’s and I actually prefer it to XP.

Yeah, I said it.  You can read that line again if you don’t believe me.  Currently the beta of Windows 7 is only available to MSDN subscribers, but the public beta launches less than 24 hours from the time of this post.  I’m downloading it now at a crawling 200.9 KB/sec and will surely post my findings here once I get it installed.

Steve Ballmer

Oh and one more thing.  Is it wrong that every time I see Steve Ballmer on stage I think of,  “Developers, developers, developers, developers…”?  Anyone else with me on that?

It reminds me of the switch from Windows XP to Vista.  Remember how amazed we were at how good Vista looked?  The difference here is that the new version of wordpress doesn’t suck… at all.  And Vista, well, did (suck) (a lot) (more than I expected).  Anyway, if you’re a fellow blogger and you are still using wordpress version 2 point anything other smaller than 7, it’s time to upgrade, my friend.    Added in version 2.7 is support for Gears.  (Correction:  One of my readers pointed out that support for Gears was added in version 2.6 (thanks kenny)). I know very little about Gears at this point, but you can bet I will be doing some research.  All I know is that Gears is another Google enterprise, that makes web-based applications (such as the wp-admin panel) much faster by caching parts of those applications locally.  The result?  A wordpress admin panel that not only looks fantastic, but also has significant speed improvements over previous versions.

Any questions or comments… well, you know what to do.