“Some new tech products just naturally generate excitement among the masses. For others, the excitement needs to be manufactured,” John Murrell reports for Good Morning Silicon Valley.
“And right now, Microsoft is cranking up the fertilizer factory in an effort to grow some grass-roots buzz around the launch of Windows 7 on Oct. 22,” Murrell reports.
Murrell reports, “The Redmond behemoth is trying to encourage thousands of employees, partners and Windows-loving techies to hold launch parties in their homes or public venues, offering hosts a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and ‘a good chance of winning a PC worth $750!’ as incentive.”
Full article, “How fun — we’ll all do the Monkey Boy dance, then head out back for the Vista bonfire,” here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Vishnu” for the heads up.]
Say what you want about Windows 7. If they’re serving gin, I’m installing!
I didn’t know PC’s still had a value of $750.
Hmmm.
Call Windows 7 a service pack if you like, but going through it, using it, change for change, upgrade for upgrade, it is a far more substantial upgrade than Snow Leopard.
But then… Windows needed it.
it is a far more substantial upgrade than Snow Leopard.
No, it’s not. Snow Leopard is a major overhaul of the kernel and many other major subsystems. There aren’t a lot of user-level features added, but under the hood there’s a whole release cycle’s worth of work.
-jcr
Of course it’s more substantial. They are finally catching up with Panther!
Beowulf,
Microsoft’s not catching up with shit, not with that Registry albatross still hanging around every Windows sufferer’s neck along with millions of lines of bloated, old, Windows code for the sake of so-called “backwards compatibility.”
Microsoft dooms all users to the past. They’re stuck with it. If they tried to jettison it all and start with a modern OS, they’d be dead.
People who buy WIndows PCs without first seriously looking at Apple Macs are fools.
Full article, “How fun — we’ll all do the Monkey Boy dance, then head out back for the Vista bonfire,” here.
ROTFLMFAO !!!!
@ Dev
Precisely. As long as the registry is around, Windows will always be Windows (not a good thing). MS needs to grow a pair, step up and have the courage to write a whole new OS from the ground up and dump the reg monster, or it will haunt them until it kills them.
Thats the problem with Windows lemmings. They can’t tell a product made of plastic and painted to look aluminum to the real thing. To them it’s the same.
I got an email from MS encouraging me to have one of those parties since I have an install of Win7 RC. I guess it’s an extension of “Welcome To The Social”. It felt like some kind of joke from Saturday Night Live.
And a $750 computer? Think they can afford it? Remember that kid that downloaded the one billionth app and all the friggin’ Apple goodness that he received? Now that was a prize!
Those cheap, cheesy assholes at Microsoft wouldn’t know class if it bit them in their Ballmer.
Yeah, I wanted to check out WIndows 7, for sake of running what ever Windows Apps I use…..none. Then I thought about how I hated 95, 98 (95 revised) and nothing else. Thank God that I turned on the television to see Jobs at the presser for Apple buying NeXT. Made my whole technoligical life what it is today.
Bill Gates helped me out also though, my genius in “helping” poeple out of their money was well served by watching him build that crumbling company.
Thank you Steve, Thank you Bill.
MDN Word ‘system’, it’s all about which system works, and not which one works best for you. If you are an idiot and find OS X does not work well for who you are, then you are a moron and should not ever use a product that needs power to operate it.
No matter the quality of the software, it could even be the best version of OS X ever, I can’t imagine ever wanting to have a party at my house celebrating its launch.
I thought it was about to read, “And right now, Microsoft is cranking up the fertilizer factory in an effort to dump its POS manure Windows on the public.”
HAHAHAHA
Jesus christ, that’s pathetic. Although it’s good peek into Microsoft’s psyche. “What? People aren’t excited about Windows 7!? Alright, then let’s dishonestly make it look like they are by dangling bribes in front of their faces to host launch parties.”
Can you imagine anybody actually throwing one of these things? If there is indeed any human being out there with enough constituition to survive the embarrassment, what happens when they trot out Windows 7 to wow their guests… And the only real area where Win7 is even slightly less miserable than Vista is in running its own integrated apps(they execute around 30% faster on a netbook and only a truly laughable 20% faster on above-netbook hardware, according to benchmarks. While applications beyond that limited scope run just as slow as they do on Vista. It should go without saying XP leaves both in the dust.)?
In the hallowed halls of marketting ideas that went wrong, this one’s gonna be legendary. Not up to new Coke level(Windows 7 itself will take *that* spot), but definitely somewhere around the CueCat.
For this monkey dance, he jumps around the stage chanting “customers! customers! customers! customers!”
Microsoft’s own “Laptop Hunters” campaign only served to hammer down the “value” of their launch party prizes.
“Gee, a PC worth 750 actual DOLLARS?!!
I’ll sell it and retire on the proceeds!!!!”
I’m loving Mac OS X Leopard: Service Pack Snow. How about you guys?
“Hey Honey. Get your shoes on, get outta the kitchen and come here. You gotta see this”
“Yes Bubba. What is it?”
“Them MDN Apple Guys talkin’ about some party the Microsoft Guys gonna have.”
“Yes Bubba. That’s nice.”
“But Honey, they gonna have free Gin or sumthin.”
“Yes Bubba. That’s nice.”
“But Honey. Think them Microsoft Guys also gonna be sellin’ Tupperware or sumthin.”
“Say Wha?”
“Yea Honey. Sounds like that Ballmer Guy goin’ in the Tupperware biz, like you.”
“Bubba, if they messin’ wit MY chit – I’ll kick that Monkey Boy’s ass. You seen my shoes?”
do some guerrilla warfare, folks: register for the houseparty, receive Win 7. install it either on a Parallels or Bootcamp partition. offer the world some side by side comparison of the two OSs at your houseparty!! win a few more people over to Mac.
MDN …
You might want to be careful using “Vishnu” and “heads up” in same sentence
Sure made me nervous for a minute …
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And Bubba and Honey …
Glad ya stopped bye for a visit – always good to see ya
Ya’ll come back now, hear …
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BC
Even with the presence of free liquor and spirits, it sounds like the Windows 7 launch party is likely to be a major geek sausage-fest. I think I’ll pass…
To the 2 or 3 babies who use MAC: Mom said I could have a party at my house so you’re all invited to see a REAL operating system on October 22nd. A couple of the IT guys from work might be there to really liven things up.
Your potential. Our passion.™
P.S. Leave your I-Pods at home because we’ll be squirting songs between Zunes.
Fertilizer makes my grass’ roots buzz.
Windows 7 is kinda like Mac OS 9. Legacy code that is shimmed and propped up to look modern, being a placeholder until the company works on and releases the next big thing. The only problem for Microsoft… there is no next big thing.
@ZT
“A couple of the IT guys from work might be there to really liven things up.”
Best post ever. LOL.