[.Chris]

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Road trip! By now I'm sure you've heard that the "Wow" starts now. Well, now we're bringing the "Wow" to you! From 16-24 January, I and a few Windows community influencers will hop on a custom-wrapped Windows Vista bus and visit major cities on the East coast of the United States:

• Nashville
  
• Lexington
  
• Cincinnati
  
• Columbus
  
• Pittsburgh
  
• Philadelphia
  
• Baltimore
  
• Washington, DC
  
• Charlotte
  
• Savannah
  
• Jacksonville
  
• Orlando
  
• Gainesville
  
• Atlanta
  
• ... and points in between

We'll then return to Nashville to wrap up the tour on the 24th.

There'll be tons of chances for you to spot us at places in and around these cities and also on the highways in-between. The coach itself is pretty sharp -- it's wrapped with a custom design based on the Windows Vista "energy" theme that is the default wallpaper. Our friends at AMD will be part of the branding as well. On board there'll be free Wi-Fi if you need to check your mail and a very comfortable lounge area where you can test-drive numerous systems running Windows Vista and an Xbox 360, or enjoy a refreshment while chatting with us about Windows Vista.

This will be a really exciting tour. I've never been a part of such an extensive road trip like this before and look forward to meeting regular folks interested in seeing demos of Windows Vista in person. We'll show off several PCs running Windows Vista while demo'ing things like Ultimate Extras, speech recognition, Tablet functionality, and the way Media Center works with the Xbox 360 as an extender. We've got some cool stuff to give away, and we'll capture video and still photos of our interactions so that you all on this blog can be a part of the action. We'll also be prepared to answer the many questions we anticipate that the folks will have.

I'll post day-by-day video and text updates during the week while we're on the road. Oh, and we're also working on a way for you to track our travels with a Sidebar gadget -- more on that later.

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Well, it's too bad it's not for people on the west coast. but may be, the 24th - 29th will be for westcoast? idk, It's just too bad that they are doing this for the east cost people, when microsoft is located in redmomd, whitch is on the west coast. may be its cuz the launch is in NY.

[.William]

Nice, I wish I could see this!

But I don't live in the US, oh well.

[Zdon]

See you on the bus Chris. I'll be there too.

.William, on Jan 14 2007, 02:12 PM, said:

Nice, I wish I could see this!

But I don't live in the US, oh well.

I guess you took your vacation to the wrong place this year. Sorry.

[Mike-Q™]

DC is on a school day

This post has been edited by Mike-Q™: 15 January 2007 - 12:28 AM

[.Chris]

Znod, on Jan 14 2007, 03:28 PM, said:

See you on the bus Chris. I'll be there too.

I wish I can go, to bad theres no west coast covarge.

[97 Posts]

I would really love to go, I wonder if it is coming to Wellington, New Zealand???
LOL

[.Chris]

Reason for no west cost covarage:

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JAN 14 Posted by Nick White

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Hey Alber1690: given that CES was last week and the week following out coach tour is the launch in NYC, we're just too strapped for time to be able to hit both coasts. I'd have liked to have done both myself, being a native Seattleite, but there simply isn't time and the cities are too far apart in many cases. But, we're holding local launch events for developers and IT pros in many localities, so take a look for the one nearest you: http://www.technetev...om/default.aspx.

what a shame, plus they could have launched vista at CES.... oh well...