[phileysmiley]

<font color="maroon">by Larry Richman </font>
<font color="gray" size="1">January 10, 2007 12:20 AM</font>

A few pictures of the trip to Las Vegas --

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Windows Vista RTM Lab -- Saturday, January 6 - Sunday, January 7, 2007. Some of us were lucky enough to get Alienware rigs pre-loaded with Windows Vista RTM.

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Sky Show at the Rio -- Saturday, January 6, 2007. This takes place in the casino at the Rio, and we saw it as we were waiting to go in to the dinner show "Tony & Tina's Wedding."

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Outside the Venetian after the keynote, Sunday, January 7, 2007. Sandi Hardmeier (MS MVP) and Arie Slob (Infinisource), all the way from Perth, Australia and Malta, respectively.

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Lunch with Jim Allchin at BOA at Caesar's, Monday, January 7, 2007.

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Party at Club Pure at Caesar's, Monday, January 7.

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After the party at Club Pure, we had a chance to see and hold the Technical Emmy which Microsoft had just received for Direct 3D. They were showing it off outside Club Pure as we were leaving. It is bigger and heavier than I thought.

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[kanaloa]

Excellent shots Larry

[The Phoenix]

So Larry, get any good swag ? I spy some books and a rather nice looking green box with the vista logo on the end there on your pictures ???? lol

Hope you enjoyed yourself, looks like you did anyhow.

[phileysmiley]

Excellent shots Larry

Thank you! I have more but they may be too incriminating. I'll save them to use in case those "other" sites misbehave.

So Larry, get any good swag ? I spy some books and a rather nice looking green box with the vista logo on the end there on your pictures ???? lol

Hope you enjoyed yourself, looks like you did anyhow.

Welllll......I didn't walk away empty handed, that's for sure. I'll have to sort through everything and see what I can post about.

In the interest of full disclosure, I do want to point out that a portion of the expenses were borne by Microsoft.