this journal entry is overdue by a few months
just like windows 7 was overdue by a couple of years.

speaking of which, it's great. I'm digging the simple, sleek user interface and can see how a lot of the features are tuned for optimized efficiency.

64 bit ultimate in particular works very well with my desktop.
sadly, I can't really tell you just HOW well because let's face it, my desktop is a god machine and ran crysis on maximum (actually, above max. there was a mod for that) settings without any problems.

I can tell you that it doesn't hang running several heavy-duty applications at once, but that might be because the 64 bit is letting my 8 gigs of RAM kick in.

Additionally, 7 Ultimate comes prepackaged with a theme for Nanami Madobe, who is voiced by Nana Mizuki. That's if you get the specific version in Japan, which I didn't. I admittedly found it on the net, but oh well.

Somebody over at Microsoft Japan must be a marketing genius, because Windows 7 has pretty much singlehandedly won the OS war over there. I mean sure, among the otaku Windows' sales were settled thanks to the OS-tans and their extreme popularity, but the fact that Microsoft used Nanami to cash in on their untapped reserve of moe was sheer brilliance on somebody's part. It also saved them from having to fight over which OS-tan was "canon" after the whole Vista debacle. Well done, Microsoft. It was a little late, but you pulled through.

on a side note, another BRS figurine was announced not too long ago and I'm sure you've all heard of the anime due for spring. I mean to keep it classy, but... fuck yeah. A set of plushes are available later soon too-- with Dead Master included, even!

I feel like people have a thing for poking holes in my wallet.