Virtual PC 2007 RC1 has been released, and can be downloaded on the Microsoft Connect site, if you participated in the beta tests. The main new features are:

• Support for Windows Vista™ as a host operating system
• Support for Windows Vista™  as a guest operating system
• Support for 64-bit host operating systems
• Support for hardware-assisted virtualization
• Built-in support for network installations

More details about the release notes can also be downloaded on the Microsoft Connect site.

Recently I switched from RSSBandit to GreatNews as RSS reader (noticed by a post from Bert Jansen).

The speed for aggregating feeds using GreatNews is really fast! I think it was better called SpeedNews ;). Besides that, it has a nice user-interface and all config & feed data is kept in the installation folder. This means that no installation (MSI) is required, and that it can easily be deployed to other computers.

That's right, a public preview of Office 2007 Beta 2 is available. You can download the bits from here. Note that right now it is very difficult to connect to the server, due to high traffic.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 has been released to the public, and can be downloaded here. I installed IE7 on a clean WinXP SP2 without any problems through VPC. My blog site and IStaySharp.NET rendered correctly with IE7.

The coolest feature I found, is the integrated rss reader...

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