Well 2006 is almost over, and we can’t help but look around the corner to what is coming up in 2007. January is going to be a huge month for the technology community. To start off the new year, we have two gigantic events. Both taking place during the week of January 8, CES and Macworld Expo San Francisco are going to make us dizzy. Then, just in time for the end of the month, Microsoft will be releasing its long overdue Windows Vista.

Macwold San Francisco is the biggest Mac event of the year, and is always a platform for many releases from Apple, such as new iPods, new Macs, and the new year’s software. Last year, Apple introduced the FM tuner remote for the iPod, the Intel iMac, and the MacBook Pro, as well as iLife and iWork 2006. The upcoming Apple phone is also suspected this year, but as it is with Apple, we won’t know till it happens.

CES, or Consumer Electronics Show, is always one of the biggest tech events of the year and is always a big launch time for a multitude of exciting new products. Last year, Bill Gates/Microsoft introduced Urge (whatever happened to Urge?), Creative launched its Zen Vision:M, Pioneer went Blu-Ray, and thousands (yes, thousands) of other products were released. CES 2007 will be lighting up Vegas from January eighth to the eleventh, and is sure to make a big splash.

This gives us technology addicts just 12 days to catch our breath and to warm up for the much anticipated, extremely overdue, release of Windows Vista. Vista is the first big release of Windows since 2001, so it is Redmond’s latest and greatest. Whether or not you plan to use it, Vista is almost here, and it’s a big deal.

January is going to be fun. See you there.