The story so far (speedlinking)
Super Blogger Long Zheng broke the news in his post "TechEd Australia attendees to receive free HP Mini Notebook with Win7 ", and shortly after twitter went crazy (check the hashtag auteched), a snippet from Long’s Post is below:
If any Aussies out there wasn’t entirely sure of going to the Microsoft TechEd Australia conference on the Gold Coast this year or not, then here’s an offer to nitro-boost your thought process a little. Microsoft Australia is going to be hosting the largest hands-on Windows 7 evaluation in the world by offering each paying attendee with one of 2,300 HP Mini netbook preloaded with Windows 7 for free
Microsoft Australia’s Jeff Alexander posted a heads up on some of the technical planning the TechED team have been working on to deploy Windows 7 on over 2,000 netbooks. Whilst Nick Hodge (the man with the logistics) has posted some gems as well.
That was all yesterday — Today Microsoft’s OCS powerhouse, Johann Kruse posted that the story has been picked up by IT Newswire.
I’ve also stumbled across some more info about the decision behind the HP Mini netbook, I’ll post it later this afternoon.