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Microsoft can’t be arsed to take Windows 7 to exhibitions or expos this year. Instead they encourage their beta testers to invite everyone to their house and have a Windows 7 themed party.

The hammyness is only occluded by the strained range of genders, ethnicities and age groups on display here. The idea is to gather the most unlikely bunch of “friends” on the planet, and instead of playing Ring of Fire, Spin the Bottle or Rude Guess Who? let’s exchange lessons in desktop customisation and taskbar organisation. WOOHOO SPRING BREAK!

“We’ve all had a head start” gushes the soccer-mom typecast in the promo.

“You may want to begin installing Windows 7 a few days in advance” the plaid shirt and thick-glasses clad barely palatable techie guy meaningfully warns us.

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As you know — particularly if you are a true fan of the blog, of which we know there are about 4 — you will have read our first entry which announced our intentions to go the moon. We are entering the Google Lunar X Prize competition, with every intention of sauntering away with the $20 million grand award.

This week, key members of the team had our very first planning meeting, to start figuring out stuff:

Geoff explains the complex navigational route he has plotted

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