Microsoft Ice House: Plan for Friday

[Maurice Murphy]

Borden Rhodes wrote:
> I think Friday at 4:00 actually sounds like a great idea, and if all 
> goes well we can negotiate returning on Saturday which will be super 
> awesome.  Here's my report from my latest recon mission:
>
> When I stuck my head in at 2:00 today the place was pretty empty.  The 
> staff are nice and friendly and they serve free hot chocolate which 
> has an overwhelming taste of marshmallows.  Once every half hour they 
> encourage everyone out of the building so they can hold a draw for 
> free copies of Vista and Office.  After that everyone who wants to go 
> back in has to wait outside like idiots whilst the cheerful people at 
> the door hand out new raffle tickets.  It would be sweet if one of us 
> won the raffle and started making copies next door :P
>
> As Jane reported, all of the machines work just fine inside the 
> house.  Apparently the house is designed to not melt as long as the 
> outside temperature doesn't exceed 15 degrees.
>
> Vista has a lot of great eye candy that would look great in Beryl.  
> Some things, like movie wallpapers, don't make any practical sense but 
> look hot anyway.
>
> Most of the people in the house were oblivious to fundamentals of 
> technology or seemed to forget what a computer's designed for.  Some 
> comments I overheard:
> "Can I install Vista on my Macintosh?"
> "If I had Vista I'd just play with the 3D flip feature all day!"
> "Can I play Windows 95 games on Vista?"
> "Coooooooll"
> ... so we may want to keep that in mind and arm ourselves for 
> questions like "why can't I set the background to a movie?"
>
> I await my marching orders.
>
> Borden Rhodes
A small thought for your plans for Friday in the big TO:  how about a 
press release to the major and minor media in the Toronto area?  That 
should get some coverage.  You could also include a Linux penguin in the 
letterhead without need for fancy equipment, and the coverage would 
perhaps be even better!  Anyway, if someone has the gift of the gab, go 
for it!  I'm afraid I don't qualify in that department.

Maurice from Nepean