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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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I just wanted an excuse to show off my awesome photo, so I wrote this article

I was in Rome last week. I’d never been on holiday before, let alone to Italy, because I’m poor and usually have to sell the cheesy nodules from between my toes just to buy food, so my girlfriend and I adamantly hauled our sweaty arses round every tourist activity we could find, checking them off one by one.

Coliseum? Check. Pantheon? Check. Eight million largely identical but incredibly pretty churches? Check. Ate a pizza? Check. Ran for our lives every time we tried to cross a road (or even go near a road, or look at a road, even through the corner of our eyes)? Check, check, check.

The Vatican? Oh, check with a cherry on top.

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