Well, it's official- Windows Vista and Office 2007 have been released to manufacturing, so they are as done as they are going to get at this point. How Vista is adopted remains to be seen- the increased security, new kernel, and new authentication model may require many corporate customers to wait on Longhorn server. Microsoft seems to have acknowledged this a few weeks ago, and is rumoured to be allowing enterprise customers to run the Longhorn beta on production servers.
I've used beta and pre-release versions of both Vista and Office 2007, and have been impressed with them, but am planning to delay running Vista in production until sometime in first quarter, as I want to test everything well before I use it in front of 100 people I don't know.
Am finalizing a post on the new world of accounting software- free apps for small business. Sage started this trend with a free version of Peachtree (after rebates), Intuit improved it with the limited version of QuickBooks SimpleStart, and Microsoft has recently introduced Office Accounting Express 2007. OAE 2007 is a substantial app (the download, from www.ideawins.com, is 205 MB), and I'm looking forward to doing some work this winter to compare and contrast the low end versions of the big three accounting applications.
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