Windows 7 Launch Party

The Tucson Computer Society held a Launch Party on October 22, the introduction date of the new operating system. Microsoft provided a Party box with decorations, freebies and two copies of Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit). You can see the decorations in one of the pictures here and the screen shows the desktop of Windows 7.
We had about 40 members attending, so it was a big crowd. The conference center at Sertino's Cafe was the site for the celebration.
We provided cake (see the beautiful cake below), ice cream and soda for everyone.
The features we showed included Help and How-To, Search, Taskbar-Pin Programs, Preview of Open Programs, Snap, Shake and Peek, Custom Desktop, Web Slices and Accelerators.
We also had a discussion of the upgrading process from Vista

(uneventful) and XP (specialized action required).

To top off the night, we had a raffle of the Microsoft freebies, plus many of the free items I have picked up at computer shows. There was a prize for every attendee!
The Launch Party was a lot of fun!