After ages, finally I’ve bought a new Microsoft VX-1000 webcam and as I’m checking it out, think it’s out of this world!
As a matter of fact, it’s not the latest release of Microsoft webcams but I think this is what I was looking for!

Here’s some of its features I can see in its user-manual:

Photo Swap

Share and swap photos in real time with your friends and family using Windows Live Messenger—right in the video call window!

Windows Live™ Call Button

It's simple to start video calls. One touch of the Windows Live Call Button lets you see who's online, and you're on your way to making a video call.

LifeCam Dashboard

Add special effects and control your webcam—all from the Windows Live Messenger window.

One-Touch Blogging

Upload photos to your blog on Windows Live™ Spaces with any of your photos at the simple click of your mouse.

Superior Video and Photo Quality

See the smiles clearly with 640 × 480 pixels video and photo resolution.

Optimized for Windows Live Messenger

Seamlessly integrated with Windows Live Messenger for easy setup and use.

Universal Attachment Base

It’s a snap to attach the LifeCam to any monitor.

Built-In Microphone

The built-in microphone automatically picks up your voice with remarkable clarity.

Video Effects

Discover a fun way to express yourself with these entertaining video effects built into the LifeCam dashboard.

Few months ago, Microsoft released a beta version of Windows 7 and encouraged everyone especially developers to install it. “This version is out of this world!” said Microsoft. So I downloaded and installed it and I was decided to migrate from Windows Vista SP1 to 7.

Everything was fine and Windows installed successfully; so I saw the Windows 7’s new look and said “WOW! What a look!” Then checked out some new features such as its calculator, the new Windows Gadget Box, Multi-Photo background and more I thought that Windows 7 will be a good Windows.

The problems started when want to install my drivers. I started to install my Creative Sound Blaster and suddenly the Windows crashed and showed me the blue screen! I restarted my computer and saw that Windows was trying to send some information about my issue to Microsoft. I selected OK. My cell phone rang and I started to talk to one of my friends for about 15mins. I came back and saw that Windows still send anonymous information about my issue to Microsoft! So I checked my network traffic and realized that the information was about 100Mb (WHAT THE HELL!!!).

I canceled the operation and continued to install some applications such as Antivirus but I couldn’t because it doesn’t support my Antivirus software (Trend Micro PC-Cillin 2008). I tried to install Windows Live OneCare because I thought that Microsoft may have done something for this issue at least on its own Antivirus but when I started to install it, said that “Windows Live OneCare doesn’t support your operating system”. “OH MY GOD, WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW?” I said.

I continued without any Antivirus software and I decided to synchronize my music to my device using the new Windows Media Player 12. I’m converting my music to WMA 64Kb/s whenever want to synchronize to my device because of its capacity (Only 4 GB). I’m using Windows Media Player for Windows Vista in order to do so but that time when I wanted to so such a thing in Windows 7, it showed me an error!

Those were some of problems I had when tried Windows 7. No sound card, No Antivirus, etc. In my opinion, Windows 7 is not reliable at least at this point (Beta version) and because of that, I removed it and moved back to Windows Vista SP1.

About 2 days ago, Microsoft released Windows 7 beta 1 and it’s now available on MSDN.

I think it’s necessary for Microsoft to release a new version of Windows because in my opinion, current Windows Vista SP1 is good-for-nothing. I’m using Windows Vista SP1 while developing applications and think it’s not good even for development purposes.

I haven’t tried Windows 7 because of some internet problems we have in the country and my internet bandwidth limitations, but I recommend it because Microsoft said, “Over the past few years, you've asked us to make some changes to Windows. We listened closely. Now it's time to share an early look at how we've used your feedback.”

People aren’t satisfied of Windows Vista because of errors it has so Microsoft released Windows Mojave™. You can check out its website to see how people hate Windows Vista.

Microsoft is trying to release a better version of Windows which you can call it Windows because they lost a lot of things on Windows Vista. In my opinion, Windows Vista Project has been lost.

By the way, Windows 7 has some great features that you can checkout at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/whats-new.aspx