Windows 7 should be coming out sometime this year from what I’ve read on various technology blogs and because of that I am extremely excited! I have been running the Windows 7 Public Beta on my HP dv6000 laptop for a few months now and I’m loving it! I have found that it is considerably faster than Vista in a number of ways. It boots up faster, switches users faster and browses files a whole lot faster. Now I know its not a whole lot to be excited about, but the main thing that has made me the happiest is faster network browsing! Yes, I know,...

I was randomly looking up a date on the calendar using Windows 7 Beta today and accidentally discovered a new feature! Turns out this feature is also in Vista but I guess I never noticed in the past two years of using Vista. I’m sure many of you know about it but I just thought that it was worth sharing. In Vista, if you click on the clock in the bottom right corner of the task bar, then a little calendar widget pops up with a cool analog clock on it like so: What I realized is that if you click on the Month name it will “zoom out” the...