Vista on Windows Marketplace Web Site Unavailable to Aussies
January 22, 2007 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
Microsoft officially announced that their Windows Vista is available for download via their Windows Marketplace Web Site; however, this service is only available to Canada and United States.
Also, Microsoft’s Windows Anytime Upgrade service is not going to be available to Australia as well.
To compensate for the lack of this service in Australia; managing director of Microsoft Australia –Tracey Fellows — together with the chairman of Harvey Norman — Gerry Harvey — will both personally sell the first copy of Windows Vista at midnight on January 29 in Alexandria, Sydney branch.
Harvey Norman stores across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are going to open several hours offering 10 percent hardware discounts and giveaways an hour after midnight.
Source here.
I am going to a “lunch and learn” next week on Microsoft Vista and will post a vodcast on their presentation the link of which I can forward to you if you would like. Just let me know. In the mean time I wanted to show you a video I made at the Microsoft Alumni Network’s “After the holidays party”. I think Microsoft makes an interesting anthropological subject:
http://pugettown.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/is-there-life-after-microsoft/