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Win7; The image comes together (2009-7-7)

Last night, Jeff Alexander tweeted he was doing a Sysprep for our shiny new HP Netbooks.
Earlier today Jeff, has posted there is good progress on what applications will be included:

jeffa36 Have had some good discussions about applications to be included in Netbook image for #auteched..

 
…and the good news:  Jeff has also some photos of our netbooks [...]

The great sysprep of ‘09 beings (2009-7-6)

Well, it looks like the great Sysprep of 2009 has begun (They’ll be talking about this for years to come!). 
Jeff posted a little while ago on twitter:

 
jeffa36 Performing SYSPREP / /oobe /shutdown on Netbook for #auteched..first pass at creating an image..about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

Sysprep is the magic that takes single image, and preps [...]

INTERVIEW: Jeff Alexander, 7 questions on how? (2009-7-4)

Hi Guys, meet Jeff Alexander.  Jeff is bloke who has the [enviable] task of getting Windows 7 out onto all our Netbooks!!  Jeff was kind enough to take a few moments after his Windows 7 Deployment livemeeting yesterday to stop and answer a couple of questions for me.

For those who don’t know Jeff, he is [...]

Getting wireless to the people (2009-7-1)

It appears, that hosting geek Jorke, has already started getting the wireless plumbing reading for TechED Australia this year. 
According to his twitter feed, there was a [secret?] visit to the Gold Coast Convention Center back in May to check things out.
Anyway Jorke has just recently posted some more info on his blog.  It looks [...]

INTERVIEW: Nick Hodge on 7 questions why? (2009-7-1)

I had a chance this morning to spend a few moments with Microsoft Australia’s, Nick Hodge.  Nick is “the man” who is organising the logistical challenge of getting 2,000+ netbooks into the hands of all us Tech•Ed attendees.    …to put that in perspective that’s roughly 58x forklift palettes =)
Anyway, In the spirit of Windows 7, [...]

The story so far (speedlinking) (2009-7-1)

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 [...]

Welcome to Win7 #auTechED (2009-6-10)

Hi There Guys, thanks for dropping by.
Well as you may have heard, Microsoft TechED Australia is giving each delegate a complimentary HP Mini 2140 Notebook PC pre-loaded with Windows 7.
Here is a informal (and unofficial) blog by a couple of guys, to keep the TechED community abreast of information as we find it.
Keep you posted [...]