After twenty plus years, Microsoft finally got it right. In a movement that has stunned developers, awed users, and just generally thrilled the heck out of the general IT community, Microsoft has released the Windows 7 operating system. And it kick some righteous butt.

What makes Windows 7 different is that it isn’t just another piece of Microsoft gobbly-gook technology that supposedly makes things easier, faster, better, and can improve your life a thousand fold. I mean, oddly enough - it actually does that - but what makes Windows 7 really fantastic is that, even in the beta, the technology was so stable that it ran better than the current versions of Vista, and perhaps even more stably than XP. The key to the Windows 7 technology is that they have incorporated both the AERO desktop features, as well as the user account control, in such a way that the UAC actually feels natural, and you don’t feel like you’re taking a mallet to a square peg in a round hole...