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Windows 7 launch!

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Today in my college Microsoft came to show us their latest products and while they did the launch of windows 7, 40 people were choosen to go and they showed us windows 7 which looks awesome and they gave us a bunch of free goodies.

We all got offical copies of:

Windows 7 Ultimate
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows server 2008
SQL server
Visual Studio 2008

But at the end they wanted questions to be asked and my friend asked a question about tunneling or something, don't remember. Then they gave him a HD waterproof video camera!

They gave out 4 of those and loads of T-shirts which was awesome (i got none *sadface*) but at the end they said look under you chair and if there is an envelope stuck under it come on up, me and two others had them and we got XBOX 360 Elites! so happy its unreal.

Such an amazing day lol.
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Disconn3cted wrote:he just said the USA was the most powerful country in the universe. For some reason that made me lol hard!

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Greatest day ever or Greatest day ever? Lucky you, I wish I got a free replacement Xbox 360 T__T. Oh well, enjoy your W7 and Xbox, I have a friend giving me his W7 disc :D sometime soon.
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XxDeeDeeDeexX wrote:Greatest day ever or Greatest day ever? Lucky you, I wish I got a free replacement Xbox 360 T__T. Oh well, enjoy your W7 and Xbox, I have a friend giving me his W7 disc :D sometime soon.


I only have a ps3 so i was rather happy getting a free xbox360.
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Seeing A GM Wearing A T-shirt From A Bot Company - Priceless

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Disconn3cted wrote:he just said the USA was the most powerful country in the universe. For some reason that made me lol hard!

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Damn! That's something. Lucky you.
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Lucky....and i had to pay $20 for my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.

College rocks though.
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or it didnt happen.

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dom wrote:screenshots

[quote=HejsaN]or it didnt happen.[/quote]


EXACTLY!
I think Sneakybanana is secretly a part of the Microsoft propaganda section, his name is sneaky after all. I don't know about you, but I'm wearing my tin foil hat again.
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Here is the proof.
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So it happened.
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ill post a picture of the xbox after i format my computer and put on Windows 7, cant post picture of the software becuase i just download all them from microsoft with my student ID & pass.
ClauSnake wrote:Premium - 200 Silk
Grab Pet - 88 Silk
Globals - 14 Silk
Seeing A GM Wearing A T-shirt From A Bot Company - Priceless

Spoiler!


Disconn3cted wrote:he just said the USA was the most powerful country in the universe. For some reason that made me lol hard!

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Damn I wish MS would come to my school and give me $1000 worth of stuff for nothing.
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Okay, That's great @SneakyBanana
But I'm not jealous at all! lulz
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*looks under my own chair*
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they gave you all that for free, pointless? all i would want is windows 7, XP? Vista? wtf?
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Nice sell the Elite, upgrade your PC, put Windows 7 on it = profittt

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SneakyBanana wrote:ill post a picture of the xbox after i format my computer and put on Windows 7, cant post picture of the software becuase i just download all them from microsoft with my student ID & pass.


In that case,

I got this for free:

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Same here dom. Woot. Love me some MSDN. I feel like we've been through this in another thread... hmm. :P

That's awesome about the other prizes though... I'm never that lucky.
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They just gave you away 1000$+ worth of items...
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But I wanted a Wii. *walks out*
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windows 7 wont recognize my front panel audio jacks grrrrrr, tried so many different drivers >.>
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I also got MSDNAA.
:love: college :D
About to go download my free legal version of Windows 7 :D

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Good schools and lucky people... makes me jealous :(
Anyways gonna format now and put on W7 Ultimate, hopefully I will like it :D
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ofy1993 wrote:
ExSoldier wrote:They just gave you away 1000$+ worth of items...


that's like you paying away .000005 cents more to a cashier.

Wut? :?
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Drexel University also has unlimited dl's for Windows 7. My friend gave me a serial but I'm hesitant to install it after seeing various benchmarks.
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Win7 user myself now, Im quite happy how it turned out.
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just a question... which directx software do i need to install to run games in dx10 on win7? (64 bits)

cuz right now i have the latest version of directx installed (which doesn't actually specify if it's dx10 or not) and all my games crash after running for 10min-ish in dx10 mode.
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lol vista owns all , why would you ever want to replace it..
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[SD]happynoobing wrote:just a question... which directx software do i need to install to run games in dx10 on win7? (64 bits)

cuz right now i have the latest version of directx installed (which doesn't actually specify if it's dx10 or not) and all my games crash after running for 10min-ish in dx10 mode.



Update your video card drivers.
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.AWAKE. wrote:lol vista owns all , why would you ever want to replace it..


The sarcasm is strong in this one.

happynoobing, type dxdiag in the search bar of the start menu and press enter. Should open a window that tells you what version DX is installed. Windows 7 ships with Directx11. (I think)

Your crashing could be caused by all kinds of different things. What is a "crash"? to desktop? BSOD? Freeze-up? Try different drivers like Deadsolid suggested then go from there. (Use driver cleaner before installing new drivers.)
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