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Microsoft Selects Windows 7 Launch Party Finalists, Procrastinators to be Weeded Out

Posted 09/23/09 at 08:52:52 AM by Paul Lilly

If you previously submitted app in hopes of becoming a Windows 7 Launch Party host, be sure to check your email and spam folder. The software giant said it has selected finalists, though simply receiving the email doesn't ensure you'll get to host and receive a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for doing so.

"Receiving the finalist email doesn't mean you've been accepted to host just yet. You will need to be among the first to respond via a link within your email to be confirmed as a host," wrote Brandon LeBlanc, one of Microsoft's in-house Windows bloggers.

LeBlanc added that the extra step is the result of the "amazing response" it had from people wanting ~~a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate~~ to host a party.

For those of you who weren't selected as a party host and can do without the free swag -- including a "good chance" of winning a Windows PC worth $750 -- LeBlanc says "you can still hold a Windows 7 gathering of your own," with Microsoft providing Windows 7 tips, content, demos, and training. Oh boy!

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Hell Yeah!
Submitted by Mr.Pooney on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 8:39am

I got my Confirmation!

The Bar is booked!

I got 10 PC's with the RC installed for ppl to try!

100! invites have gone out!

I hope I will be chosen for real!

I got my boss to do a joint event so we got 5000$ in shwag to give out plus what

ever houseparty.com sends too! HELL YEAH!!!

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I was confirmed as well!
Submitted by TheTolsonator on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 7:08am

I was confirmed as well! Woot! I've invited 25 people so far, not sure how I'm gonna fit everyone in my house but who cares! It's gonna be awesome!

The Tolsonator

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WIN A FREE COPY OF W7 ULTIMATE!
Submitted by periodhyphenund... on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 6:59am

Contest Rules:
The 1st person to prove that Windows 7 is more secure that Illegal copies of XP-SP2 that do not require activation through Microsofts SpyServers will win a FULL Copy of Windows 7 Ultimate (NOT AN UPGRADE)
To win, you must;

1. PROVE that Windows 7 does not transfer your encryption keys over the Internet after you open an encrypted disk on an Internet connected computer using ANY Encryption Software!

2. PROVE that Windows 7 will block outgoing data with the built in Firewall in order to prevent 3rd parties from aquiring your encryption keys as stated in Rule #1

3. PROVE that 3rd party Firewalls will be allowed to block ALL outgoing data including any and all components of Windows 7 that can and do connect to the Internet

4. PROVE that Antivirus programs such as Free AVG are not being rewritten to handle Internet access of other programs such as firefox and thereby preventing you from getting a Firewall popup for firefox and other programs when they connect as is now happening with Windows XP

5. PROVE that your wireless network encryption key is not being sent via the Internet on Internet connected Windows 7 machines so that local Law enforcement networks can still access your Windows 7 computer even after you disable Internet access

6. And Finally, PROVE that Microsoft scare tactics to get people off of XP and on to Windows 7 are not just being used to manipulate you onto the NSA's Greatest Spyware Platform to date, WINDOWS 7!

This should be an incredibly easy contest to win if Windows 7 is so much more secure than even Illegal copies of XP!

Send proof to the following email address for your chance to win: >

Windows.7Sucks@Hotmail.com

Contest ends on October 22nd 2009
All entries must be in by Midnight Central Standard Time on On October 21st 2009

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3) Take out your ethernet
Submitted by gendoikari1 on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 7:31pm

3) Take out your ethernet cable. Now you don't need to bitch about things!

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Done!
Submitted by Havok on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 11:52am

I sent you a link and photos! After all, it's good to HAVE PROOF FOR WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.

OMGWTFBBQ

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FANBOY
Submitted by Mr.Pooney on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 8:47am

So... acording to Will Smith's oct 09 letter from the editor.. would you consider yourself the

"Antiquarian"? or the "Investor"? oh right! Iligal copy's... that answers that!

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Contest Open To Max PC Staff as well!
Submitted by periodhyphenund... on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 9:04am

Will Smith and anyone else on the Max PC Staff can enter this contest as well

All you need to do is prove me wrong as per the contest rules!

Face it, if the Maximum PC staff can't debunk me, they either don't have a clue how their software works or Windows 7 is spyware!

So get a clue

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HA
Submitted by UpsideDownPants on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 1:40pm

YOU are the one with the moronic 'conspiracy theories'. I believe that in this case, the burden of proff would fall to the crazy moron.

(that's you, by the way)

(someone to "debunk" you! ha! who the F are you?)

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Who the F am I?
Submitted by periodhyphenund... on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 7:44pm

I'm the guy with screencaptures showing firefox out on the Internet while Firefox is blocked in the firewall when AVG is installed!

I'm the guy with photo's of the BSOD showing Windows 7 copying the Contents of RAM to the Hard Drive when an encrypted disk is opened

I guess you could say that unlike you, I am a real security professional

Who the Hell are you?

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Me?
Submitted by UpsideDownPants on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 11:12am

I'm nobody, just a guy who doesn't MAKE SHIT UP. LIke the guy below says, let's see your proof, you have had MANY opportunities to do so. If you had proof you would literally jump at the chance to show it, wouldn't you, you opportunistic chest-pounder?!

Sometimes I mis-spell stuff.

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As we say on the Internet,
Submitted by Caboose on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 6:14am

As we say on the Internet, Pix or it didn't happen (and GTFO).

You've been asked for proof many many times already over multiple threads. You've even been told to stop by one staff member. And yet you continue to claim that you have all this proof and yet never provide any. So, as many have said before, If you have proof, then show it. Show us all of these "facts" if they really exist. If you refuse to do so, then just stop as all you're doing is trolling.

Now run along and continue to make up stories about how the moon landing was faked, and the government brought down the twin towers among other stupid conspiracies that you like to spout off as truth.

-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-

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Coast to Coast AM
Submitted by Havok on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 11:47am

Seriousl, call into Coast to Coast AM, they love conspiracy theories! Oh, and did you try National Enquirer yet?

OMGWTFBBQ

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funny stuff
Submitted by rseding91 on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 10:28am

You sound like one of those tinfoil-hat wearing, sitting-in-his-parents-bacement type a person.

You made me laugh out loud when I read your post :D good stuff.

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