Vista Launch Party in Nashville

That’s right; in a show of complete geekiness, Le Chocolate Moose and I headed out to Cool Springs, TN for the Official Nashville Vista Launch.

I must say that Microsoft put a pretty good step forward for the “party,” and had the appropriate festiveness for the number of people there (maybe 100 non-MS or Circuit City employees).  There, unfortunately, wasn’t a whole lot to do.  More importantly, Circuit City didn’t have a whole lot of laptops.

You see, I haven’t been able to do hardly any coding the last few weeks because the only PC (we’ve been a Mac househould… that looks to be changing due to Vista) we have in the house is an old laptop that’s dying; I think there’s actual physical damage to one of the hard drive’s platters.  So I’ve been holding out to buy a Vista laptop.  Well, Circuit City
had abot 5 laptops with Vista for sale (ok, maybe 7).  So no new laptop for me yet; any suggestions?

So there wasn’t too much to do at the party, except free food (suprisingly good hamburgers and hot dogs), a pretty good DJ, and meeting some guy from the Titans (though I thought the older gentlemen who was “guarding” the Titans guy was much more amusing and charismatic).  The Titans guy was humorous in that he kept watching the highlight reel of himself instead of talking to people.  We got out picture with him; if I can get it scanned in I’ll post it here.

Oh, and I found out Microsoft has a small Nashville campus.  Who knew?

All in all, it was a decent event.   Microsoft put an appropriate amount of attention into the launch here.  I wish there were more community events like this, though.  So I hope to join the Vista Movement soon; Microsoft, here’s a guy WANTING to move away from Mac and towards your products.  Push your partners to get out some good laptops for me to buy!