Windows 7 Goes On Sale…and…The House Party! (Videos)

Over the last week here on Zath, you may have noticed that we’ve been running our Windows 7 review week and publishing a seven part review of the latest incarnation of everyone’s favourite operating system…well maybe it’s some people’s favourite anyway.

To accommodate the expected demand from the excited crowds of people all wanting to get their hands on “their precious” retail boxed copy of Windows 7, some stores here in the UK were even going to be open so those eager people who just couldn’t get to sleep until they’d managed to satisfy their Windows 7 hunger could actually buy it from midnight on the 22nd October 2009.

Here is my friend Dom “The Hodge” Hodgson going along to see what the queues were like at his local supermarket when Windows 7 goes on sale – you’ve got to hope that hoards of people don’t get carried away at these kinds of events, hopefully it’ll be a polite, good natured bunch of people queuing up!

Well after seeing that you may remember last week I wrote about part of the launch campaign and more specifically the whole Windows 7 house party initiative that Microsoft has been encouraging Windows users to hold for their friends to come along and see how great Windows 7 is in a home setting.

As we saw last week when Dom was unboxing his Windows 7 party pack, Microsoft do rather limit you to small numbers of their special Windows 7 napkins, party bags etc, so what happens when lots and lots of people turn up and you don’t have enough to give people – surely people will be leaving disappointed?

Well just take a look at how Dom’s Windows 7 house party (supposedly) turned out – it makes you wonder if Microsoft were being a little too hopeful with the whole house party marketing campaign?

Related Pages:

1. Windows 7 House Party – Microsoft Trying To Be Apple?
2. Windows 7 Review – Introduction
3. Windows 7 Released, Time For Windows 8 Rumours!
4. Windows 7 Review – Part 5: File and Software Compatibility
5. Technology Of The Noughties: The Modern Operating System (Windows & Mac OS X)

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