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#1 2009-10-21 9:35 pm
I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
Hosting Your Party
I promise you it will be nothing like my Windows ME or RealPlayer launch parties!
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#2 2009-10-21 9:40 pm
Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
For example, this time around, I promise the prawn cocktail will actually contain prawns, as opposed to pr0n.
"...for the rest of the party you just leave your computer on and running and just let guests mess around with it!"
Yeah, that's a good idea.
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#3 2009-10-21 10:01 pm
- sturner
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
Why do I have this almost overwhelming urge to kick the snot out of someone?
I'm not dead yet.
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#4 2009-10-21 10:03 pm
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
I wish I could make it! Sounds like a blast! 
Microsoft is just getting me back for all the years that I've ignored him.
He's releasing Windows 7 on my birthday! smurfing douche! 
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#5 2009-10-21 10:06 pm
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
Man, I wanted to host one really badly - but my wife didn't want a bunch of strange nerds coming over to the house. Apparently, one is enough... 
It would have been cool to have a signed copy of Windows 7, though.
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#7 2009-10-21 11:29 pm
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
I will be installing Windows 7 on my daughter's Dell tomorrow. She's got XP on there now and the thing has slowed to a crawl.
No party, though. 
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#8 2009-10-22 12:35 am
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
Wow they even have their very own token
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#9 2009-10-22 1:27 am
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
Bren wrote:
Well Happy Birrthday, Whirlin'!
Maybe you could have some Blue Cake of Death?
Thanks Bren!
Uh... what's this icing made out of?
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#11 2009-10-22 1:41 am
Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
I wonder if there are any documented cases of people actually holding these launch parties?
Let's hope they didn't get too out of hand.
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#12 2009-10-22 2:28 am
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
Bren wrote:
I wonder if there are any documented cases of people actually holding these launch parties?
Patience is a virtue of the weak for it makes them stand still long enough for the strong to crush them with ease.
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#13 2009-10-22 5:00 am
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How, exactly, did people get these "party packs?" I'm guessing an unused one could conceivably be a collector's item, or at least an interesting cultural artifact.
A really sad cultural artifact, mind you. The "signed" copy of Windows is just pathetic. I can think of only one C.E.O. named Steve whose autograph might actually be worth something, and his last name ain't Ballmer.
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#14 2009-10-22 6:48 am
Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
Are you going to come to my Linux kernel 2.6.32 launch party?
It's going to be a hoot, maybe not as good as the 2.6.31 launch party but certainly better than the 2.6.29 launch party.
Rumor has it, we may even have females present this time!
We almost has them for the 2.6.23 launch party, but someone ordered the wrong kind of strippers.
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Jenny had a pistol in the other
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#15 2009-10-22 8:58 am
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
woah. fems at a linux party? pxplzthx
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#16 2009-10-22 10:20 am
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
Yeah, isn't that a case for end of the Universe?
I'm not dead yet.
There are 3 types of people, those who can count and those who can't.
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#17 2009-10-22 10:22 am
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
Windows packaging is looking more and more like Apple's.
I'm not dead yet.
There are 3 types of people, those who can count and those who can't.
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#18 2009-10-22 11:13 am
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
they even have a family upgrade package now.
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#19 2009-10-22 12:11 pm
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
mrreet2001 wrote:
they even have a family upgrade package now.
This was long overdue. I wonder how much casual piracy could have been prevented if they had offered this a long time ago - like '95 or so.
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#20 2009-10-22 1:17 pm
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
This commercial is corny as *uck. They actually say this toward the end of it:
@5:43
Black guy: "Can you believe that Microsoft put the launch of Windows 7 in our hands? Are they nuts or what?!"
Nerdy guy: "Well, maybe by letting you be involved!"
HAHAHA, oh my, soo funny. Must now go out and buy Windows 7 to appease my funny bone. Ta-ta!
Someone get me a frickin' gravol.
I'll watch Steve Ballmar selling Windows 1.0 (watch here: http://tinyurl.com/yc8pl5) over this crap any day.
EDIT: I'm much reminded of a now famous Steve rant, regarding things that are unoriginal, such as the said crappy infomercial: http://tinyurl.com/6xouan
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Stack it!#22 2009-10-22 1:25 pm
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
Indeed, he's too sweaty for many people's taste.
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#23 2009-10-22 3:28 pm
Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
Hey, that could be turned around and used to his advantage:
"Apple sweats the small stuff. At Microsoft, we sweat everything!"
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#24 2009-10-23 9:55 am
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
well Apple has their own ads on windows 7.
"Apple published three new Get a Mac commercials in time for the Windows 7 launch. All three new ads target the potential upgrade pain Windows user could have going to Windows 7.
The new Get A Mac ads are actually not funny, but highlight the situation Windows XP users are in. Upgrading to Windows 7 means complete new installation, there is no in place upgrade path like in Vista.
Additionally Windows 7 is a big leap for XP users in terms of User interface. If you have tasted the Mac experience like I have, XP users get tempted to switch entirely to Apple instead of upgrading to Windows 7.
I really think Microsoft should have spent the money to develop an XP to Windows 7 in place upgrade path. I for my part will stay on XP for until the Holidays as I have no time to deal with an upgrade. Depending on how nice Santa will be I may get a new Core i7 27-inch iMac or I may end up wasting a day upgrading my PC to Windows 7 in January.") *
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#25 2009-10-23 10:07 am
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Re: I everybody coming to my Windows 7 launch party?
You know, the last round of ads looked pretty desperate. Seriously, Apple did not come off looking as good in these as they did when they were poking fun at Vista. The worst of it is, for the most part, the PC guy was right in the ad. Windows95 was a major improvement over Win3.1(1). 98 was an improvement over 95. About the only one that made me laugh was the one for ME - that steaming turd makes Vista look like a polished release.
I think the fact that Vista is quietly being shelved is probably scaring the crap out of Apple. They have had a free ride for nearly three years, given how awful Vista turned out to be. It was an easy target, and Apple has done well as a result. Now, for the first time in years, Microsoft has an OS that doesn't suck the dimples off of golf balls. In fact, it's actually quite good - I'm actually thinking of upgrading from XP (I skipped Vista)
Really, Apple - try not to be so freaking obvious next time.
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