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At October 22nd, 2009 Windows 7 officially launches! You can watch the official launch party live at Microsoft.com. The event will be hosted by Steve Ballmer himself and will start at 8am PST (What time in my timezone?).

Do you want to host your own Windows 7 Launch Party? Check out this Microsoft website for some nice resources

The date of the first Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2/Exchange 2008 official launch event named : ‘The New Efficiency’ is announched!

The date : October 12, 2009 in Seattle, WA @ AMC Pacific Place 11

As you can reed in the banner above (taken from the official website) attendees will recieve a free copy of Windows 7!

REGISTER for this event as an IT Professional. Check this Microsoft website for more information

Impuls 08 is the name of the Dutch launchparty for Windows Small Business Server 2008 & Windows Essential Business Server 2008. If you want to visit the party just go to the MS Events website and register for the event at the 17th of November 2008.

Notice : It’s a Partner only event…

Click here to register for Impuls 08

Yesterday I attended IT HerOlympics (The Dutch Heroes Happen Here W2k8 Launchevent). It was very cool to be part (as an Official Expert) of the Win2k8 Launch! There were a lot of sessions and I joined a few. There are also a few pictures from TechNite and some others from (ex-) colleagues.

Btw : Tony Krijnen told me that there were almost 1800 people at IT HerOlympics yesterday. And somewhere between 600 and 700 people stayed for TechNite.

Today Tony announced on his blog that there will be an afterparty just after the launch event. So if you’re coming to IT HerOlympics and you don’t want to go home just after 5pm (and get stuck in traffic)?

Tony tells on the IT HerOlympics blog that the TechNite will be a lot of fun: There will be a Guitar Hero III Contest, Windows Home Server Demo’s (by Tony). You also can eat pizza, play on XBOX360′s and watch demo’s of Microsoft PhotoSynth and Microsoft Seadragon (both links are in Dutch).

I think I will take the day off (the day after the launchday) Done!

ps. I heard that everybody who visits TechNite will receive a full version of Windows Vista Ultimate SP1