What a Day

Man, yesterday was a great day. Yesterday morning I had the opportunity to attend the Windows Vista launch event in Atlanta. WOW, I was impressed. I get there at 7am and 6000 people are greeted with a free copy of Vista Ultimate and free breakfast. After a couple hours of eating, checking out sponsor's booths (and signing up to win a Zune at each one) and general hanging out, we are allowed to enter the auditorium for the Keynote address and demo. This was heavily geared toward the IT community but even thought some stuff was over my head, it was very cool. the combo of Vista, Exchange 2007 and Office Pro 2007 seems to be very powerful. After the keynote, we were given a snack and then given a demo on upgrading current systems to the 07 system. pretty basic stuff. shortly after lunch was served. Hey, I am never one to complain about a free meal, and I have to give props to M$ they really did a good job. Lunch was good, and there was plenty of it for 6000 people. After lunch, we were given our launch tour t-shirts and a free copy of Office Pro 2007 ($700 retail - this is what I came for) Well, at 2 pm I decided that hearing 7 hours of Microsoft kiss its own butt was enough for me so I figured I would go ahead and take off. I decided that since I was right around the corner from Atlanta Christian College, I would drop by to make sure my letter to the admissions board arrived. Not only had my letter arrived, the admissions board liked it so much that I was accepted on the spot. They did not even want to see my SAT scores (that was a waste of $57). so all in all I would have to say yesterday was a good day. I got about $1000 worth of free software from M$ and I got accepted to college. Hopefully today does not suck ;)