Yesterday Ars Technica posted a story about their first look at Windows 7, the successor to Vista, and included some pretty interesting screenshots.
Earlier today my wife got an email claiming to be a warning about a big virus claimed to be "the worst ever."
I've done some research and you should be aware that this notice is a hoax and is in fact a copy of a much older hoax from a few years ago. more information about this particular hoax is at about.com's urban legend section - http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm.