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    Microsoft’s Windows 7 launch parties prove to be complete and utter failures
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    PC World's Rick Broida got so little response to his own Windows 7 launch party invites that he simply canceled the event. Full Article at MacDailyNews
    PC World's Rick Broida got so little response to his own Windows 7 launch party invites that he simply canceled the event.
    SOURCE: MacDailyNews 1 month ago
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Microsoft’s Windows 7 launch parties prove to be complete and utter failures
  1. Let's face it, the Windows 7 launch party concept was a complete and utter failure.
    SOURCE: MacDailyNews 1 month ago
  2. The Windows 7 launch party concept and Microsoft's attempts at igniting hoopla at a grassroots level demonstrate an attempt to hedge its bets and have its cake and eat it too. Unfortunately, nobody was having any cake at Windows 7 launch parties
    SOURCE: MacDailyNews 1 month ago
  3. You mean... It doesn't crash every 20 minutes?
    SOURCE: MacDailyNews 1 month ago
  4. Apple is cool. I don't agree with the premise of many of the Apple 'I'm a Mac' ads, but I almost always find them entertaining and compelling. Apple didn't waste any time coming out with a new series of the 'I'm a Mac' ads targeting Windows 7 too.
    SOURCE: MacDailyNews 1 month ago
  5. Remember high school--cool kids went to parties and had fun while nerds hung out at math club and played Dungeons and Dragons? Well, the two don't mix ... Hosting a party where you play Dungeons and Dragons or discuss algebraic functions doesn't make you cool just because you put the word ‘party' on it.
    SOURCE: MacDailyNews 1 month ago
  6. Microsoft has had many failed attempts at being hip and cool. Microsoft Bob. The Office paperclip character. The Bill Gates / Jerry Seinfeld ads that seemed to require some sort of psychotropic mind enhancement in order for them to make sense ... It just doesn't work.
    SOURCE: MacDailyNews 1 month ago

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