More on the Windows 7 launch party campaign, first from Cabel Sasser:
Are there people who can relate to — let alone enjoy — this video? And has there even been a more vibrant and tangible demonstration of the difference between Apple and Microsoft?
And Valhalla Island:
The concept is insane. I love OS X and there is no way I would ever host a “launch party” for a new release, no matter what the incentive.
It’s hilarious to think about how such a party would really go. Is everyone going to gather around your laptop awkwardly so you can demo new features of Windows? Does anyone ever do that with any software in any setting remotely resembling a “party”?
Or will guests bring their own laptops (one guy will bring his whole desktop) so you can all have a happy party and upgrade to Windows 7 together and burn a driver CDR for that one guy whose wireless card isn’t recognized and accommodate the guy who forgot his power cable and give up on that other guy whose installation gets hosed in the middle (yes, they’re all guys, because women know better than to attend this), then crush the host’s DSL connection when everyone whose upgrade actually worked starts downloading all of the updates?
Sounds like a blast either way.
Actually, you just described Linux installfests pretty damn well, right down to the guy(s) whose wireless cards don’t work and need crutches like ndiswrapper to get them to work. Then there’s Compiz, et cetera. Oh, and though we tried hard, we never could crush our major university’s Internet connection.
Then again, while something like this works for a bunch of Linux geeks, I agree with you in thinking that it’s going to be a miserable failure for Microsoft. Windows 7 looks like a perfectly good system, but Microsoft is trying way too hard to be “cool” and “hip.”
