I dont use windows, but I do agree that gatra needs to get the windows wallet out very soon. It should be a priority if he wants to keep this as a fair launch.
As for a pool, yes needed, no not coming soon. This is a new PoW and building pool software for it is going to take time. I'll talk to ypool and beeeer as they are pretty well versed in creating a pool interface for new PoW's
No kidding. I wish I'd kept my Linux partition around now. I could've been mining from the start.