Future Technology
So, I was trying to obtain my mac address for my wireless card and as I had done before I opened up cmd.exe and ran ipconfig, which was followed by an unexpected restart of my 13 month old Windows XP Pro installation. My first initial reaction was confusion which soon followed by investigation and assumption that since Windows tends to do very random things when it's installed on my computers for more than a year. The second stage of this oddity was a missing task bar. Sure enough, I looked into my root drive and found a virus in tagalog. It was a worm, that I somehow got due to either the Korean boot leg dvds that I had bought or from my outdated security software that I was running.

I was browsing for downloads of Windows XP Pro ISO files on Mininova.org, and I read that Windows 7 was a very popular choice and it was actually getting decent reviews. I took a look at several benchmarks and I was sold.

One hour later I'm using Windows 7 x64 and I'll have to say that I'm very impressed with the rebuild of Windows Vista, called Windows 7. It has many Vista aspects, the good ones but it doesn't feel bloated and it is much faster and responsive compared to what I had encountered before when I was using Vista.

Now I just need to get all my games back and I'll be good, mostly Final Fantasy XI. /sigh