The new version of Windows, tentatively (I guess) called Windows 7 is coming! Microsoft Certified Partners (such as us) will be able to download the completed version on August 16th. I cannot wait to install it on my Vista machines as it is supposed to much faster than Vista.

I also really like the XP Mode option, where you can run Windows XP programs in a Virtual Machine mode. I have found that Vista cannot run some programs that ran well in XP so this is a great feature. There is no reason for Microsoft to be embarrassed about this feature; Apple does this as well with their Mac Classic VM for older software.

A review of the completed version of Windows 7 will come here in August.