I may appear, due to the dearth of posts recently here, to have expired, kicked the bucket, dropped off the face of the Earth or vanished.  Truth is I’ve been performing a balancing act between family, political involvement and a plethora of blogs.

A few months ago I was appointed an interim member of the Victorian State Executive of the Australian Democrats.  Subsequent to that I’m nominated for the same role in the forthcoming election they are holding as well as a role as Deputy President of the National Executive.  Being a work-a-holic I’m also running their Victorian state blog now, which I also host, doing family things and trying to squeeze in coding time on MixAction as and where I can.

So much for the excuses.

Today – for those in the Northern Hemisphere (yesterday almost for the rest of us) Microsoft is releasing Windows 7 officially to RTM (Release To Manufacturing).  Which means, the Microsoft MSDN server gods willing, I’ll be able to download my own release licenses sometime in the small hours after midnight (my time).  Of course if indeed I can get a connection, given the amount of traffic they are likely to get, it’ll probably take a while to download.

Looking forward to it immensely.  I’ve been very impressed with the Beta, which I’ve run in Virtual Machines and live machines as well as the release candidate.  I’ll be installing the RTM onto my main machines over the course of the weekend – all going well.  A slow process even with imaged backups, data backups etc as that playful Irishman “Murphy” usually executes his “law” right around the time of a full systems upgrade.

Will let you know how it goes!

Scott Kane

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