About a month ago I attended the Microsoft “Get on the Bus” tour event in NYC. I have to wonder out loud how Spike Lee feels about the choice of name for this event? Well culturally insensitive marketing aside, it was pretty good. 
I was gifted a nice snazzy red, white and black (my favorite colors btw) one strap backpack that declares to the world: Windows 7! Office 2010!
I picked up a couple sets of the Win 7 deployment kits. Or MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack) as they kept calling them. Windows XP is old. Unless the entire world switches over to Macintoshes, SaaS and cloud computing in the next 6 months, I think there will be some Windows 7 deployments happening. BTW as a little kick in the seat, Microsoft has announced that there is no more support for XP sp2 as of July. The kits are 9 DVD discs! Thats 35-40GB of imaging, virtualized madness.
AppV and MedV look very interesting
I also was one of the first 50 people to walk in the door. What can I say, I am punctual even when I am on vacation. This punctuality entitled me to a free copy of Windows 7. 
I had expected to receive the copy on-site, but instead was given a slip of paper to fill out. I finally did receive that promised free copy. Which had somehow given birth to a 2nd copy as well while in transit! Nice. So I now have 3 free copies of Windows 7 including the one that I received for hosting a Windows 7 launch party last year.
looks like good times ahead if I ever get another system together.
I recently managed to nuke a motherboard, on my server, when I was upgrading to a couple cheap, new 500GB hard drives. Sooo seeing as its not really worth it to upgrade to a new system that supports DDR400 and socket 939, the rest of that server goes in the bin.
