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WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 25 - 31 OCTOBER 2009 | |
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Hello & Welcome, This month's Main Meeting is the one to be at, so
bring your friends and introduce them to the wonders of Windows 7. Hope to
see a big roll up!
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Tuesday 27
October - Main Meeting - 6 pm - 8
pm
 On October 22, Windows 7
finally comes to market for consumers, available to buy off the shelf in
upgrade and full versions, and available to buy preloaded or bundled with
new retail or whitebox PCs.
It will mark the end of the
Vista era, and even as some consumers and businesses will continue to
require and use Windows XP, the Windows 7 era will have finally begun in
earnest.
With Microsoft still having
over 90% of the desktop computer operating system market, and with Windows
7 being a genuine improvement over Vista, let alone Windows XP, it seems
destined to be the true mass market success that Vista was meant to be,
even though Microsoft is under competitive assault from all sides, be it
from ever improving versions of Mac OS X, free Linux distributions such as
Ubuntu and a host of online apps from companies like Google that don't
care which operating system or device you're using, as long as it has a
browser.
So, on Tuesday October 27,
our main meeting guest is Microsoft's "Professional Geek", Nick Hodge, who
will come to show us all the features and power of the Windows 7 operating
system!
Nick has presented to the
group in the past, in his capacity as a representative of Microsoft, and
we'll be taking advantage of having two speaker slots available to have
Nick fill them both, for a mega-presentation on Windows 7, its features
and benefits and all the activity around it, from the free Microsoft
Security Essentials anti-virus/anti-malware suite, to the free Windows
Live Suite which includes Windows Live Mail, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery,
Writer, Family Safety Software and much more.
Amongst other capabilities,
Windows 7's multi-touch capabilities will also be on display, and there
will be two copies of Windows 7 Ultimate to be won on the night in the
raffle, so our October main meeting promises to be jam packed, and a
chance, as always, to ask questions in the Q&A, and questions of our
guest presenter.
If you've got any friends who are interested or
curious to learn more about Windows 7 from Microsoft's "Professional
Geek"... bring them along!! The more, the merrier!!
See you there...
Alex
Profile: Nick
Hodge
 Nick Hodge a Professional
Geek for Microsoft, Nick has over 23 years of IT industry experience in a
variety of sales, technical, management, marketing and strategic roles. As
a sought-after presenter, prolific social networker and a closet
workaholic, Nick just loves technology. Especially software technology.
"Online" since 1987 and before the web, subsequently working with
Internet technologies more years than there have been browsers, Nick has a
strong belief that the current revolution of connection, collaboration and
communication is going to have dramatic and unforeseen effects on the
human condition. Some call this hyperconnectivity.
As
a presenter of technology to all sized audiences, Nick loves to inspire
people by showing them "shiny new things" that will change their life, the
way they communicated, their organisation, community and
business.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tip of the Week
So until next week, health and happiness, Elaine |
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