The upgrade process is as easy as always:

• Make a backup,
• Deactivate your plugins,
• Overwrite your current WordPress directory from the downloaded TARball,
• Login and run the automatic upgrade scipt,
• Activate your plugins,
• Done!

The admin interface is quite different when you log in, but the new dashboard is easy to get used to and use, so no major learning curve ahead. I found all the features I used before very quickly, and everything works fine as expected. For my blog the upgrade broke nothing in my customisation, so the upgrade was extremely painless.

Get the upgrade.

• Google Reader integrates with my Gmail account and other Google personalised settings
• I really like Google’s active “read” marking. As you scroll through a feed’s posts, the posts you “pass” are automatically marked as read (can be disabled)
• Adding, managing and sorting feeds is easier on Google (I always found Bloglines’ interface somewhat clunky)
• I like the overview page you get with Google Reader, showing you a selection of your new unread posts

Yeah. Google wins another one.