With Windows 7 having been finalized, I realized that my main work set-up was utterly lacking in the unfinished software department.
Clearly, that couldn't stand. So, last week, I installed the technical preview of Office 2010 on the Windows 7 machine I have been using every day. For the foreseeable future, I'll be trying to see how the new applications stack up in handling my day-to-day work.
As for my early impression, I think my colleague Rafe Needleman said it best in a tweet he wrote earlier this week, while tying out the new Office.
"I wish Outlook/Office 2010 tech preview would do something weird and dumb so I could write about it. Sadly, it just works."