Well it took a little longer than I thought it might but step one of my plan to concentrate more of this blog went live during the night (just after 3AM EST) and on the whole I’m very happy with the new design.

I’m going to take a few days and let it settle and fix any bugs that might have crept in the design then it will be on to the other things that I want to put in place. One thing that people who might have seen the previous design will probably like is that I have reduced the number of ads being displayed.

Prior there were ads in between the posts on the main page. With the new look I have removed them. Next up will be integration with Facebook but I am taking that slow because I want to make sure I do it right and that it will actually be of some value to the reader.

Hopefully you will enjoy the new look but if you spot any problems just leave me a message in this post’s comments letting me know what it is and I’ll fix it pronto. Thanks to all my readers for their patience while I work on making WinExtra better.

For much of the past year I have been concentrating on my other blog, Shooting at Bubbles, where I talk about social media and Web 2.0 and as result WinExtra has taken a kind of back seat. Well that will be changing as I have finally gotten to a point with the other blog where it is just a matter of keeping fresh content being posted daily and as a result I am going to be spending a lot more time working on this blog.

Microsoft and Windows has always been my first interest and it feels good to be return to that as my main blogging thrust. I have quite a few ideas and plans as to what will be happening here and in the Community Forums. To start of the good news of new things is that I will be adding two more writers to the roster.

The first addition is a gentleman who likes to refer to himself as Pierre but those of us from the forums call him Mr. Super Computer. Pierre lives in Paris and as a result he will be bringing us news and opinion about Microsoft from a European perspective. Glad to have you on board good sir.

The second person isn’t so much a new addition but more of a return of a great and funny writer – welcome back PJ. Now PJ comes from a rather interesting background and will be covering security news as it relates to Microsoft and Windows. I am also sure, knowing PJ, that he will be posting his thoughts and opinions as it relates to those subjects.

As well I will be doing a lot of work on the site itself in regards to the backend and design. Along with that I will be looking at some ideas to add some new and interesting feature to make this a more interesting place to drop by and hopefully make a regular stopping point in your daily surf of the web.

I’m excited to be back here and doing more than just posting the occasional story. I am also looking forward to the future of the blog and I hope you the reader will stick around for the ride – it should be fun and interesting.