Here are more observations from my attendance at a Novell conference. I attended a session titled "Defense against Microsoft" The speaker spotted me right away and we had a good conversation. I listened quitely to his argument for Groupwise and against...

Go check this out: The first one was last Friday, I helped with questions, man you guys have a bunch of questions about Exchange 2007. Go find out more!! TechNet Webcast Series: 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 Get a comprehensive look at...

Novell Religion I have met several people here that are religious about Novell. They love Everything RED! I am not going to try to change their minds. It is not worth the time. I am in the keynote here at GWAVACON and a Novell VP of marketing is...

At our launch event on Tuesday in Memphis, Matt Hester ( http://blogs.technet.com/mathewms ) demoed the speech recognition of Vista as our last demo of the day. The crowd went wild. The people I was standing around just couldn't believe that was Windows...

I am part of the Microsoft Across America Team. We start on January 16th, 2007 doing Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 Launch events. We were told today that EVERY attendee will get a copy of Office Professional 2007. Please go to our website to sign...

I get strange email everyday, but this one topped it yesterday. We got an email from our "corporate" team that says, our launch events start next Tuesday January 16th. All looks good on registration but three cities. I just can't believe that the people...

We have been having all kinds of strange weather across the US. 3 major snow storms in Denver, Snow and wind in Seattle, Drought in Texas, and No snow in NYC and 70's in January. What's up with all of this crazy weather? Well I heard a great quote yesterday...

So the other day I looked at the games on Vista. Chess, that's cool. You have to go experience the interface. My 6 year old loves to play it now. "Daddy can we put that Vista stuff on all the computers in the house?" He asked? I guess I need to go buy...

http://showusyourwow.msn.com/?id=53648 click on the link and vote for my picture!!

About once every 6 months or so I go MSN search or Google my name. Everyone does it right? Well I put in "John Weston Microsoft" it was amazing how many hits came back. My two blogs, events I have done, webcasts, Radio shows, user groups all kinds...

I am just amazed at all of this viral marketing. Here are some more. http://vistatestdrive.com allows you to test drive vista in a virtual machine. www.vistaparty.net if you are in the San Fransisco area, a user group is giving a party in honor...

No not the old Carl Sagan statement about the stars. I am talking Money. Remember when $1 Million was a lot of money? Last night Microsoft released our earnings for the last 90 days. 12 Billion in Sales and some 2-3 Billion in profit depending up on...

You know what a Sunday Drive is right? It is the way to get the family together, nothing to do, the weather is nice, so you go 'drive around' to see the sites. Waste away your Sunday. No football to watch..... Not here in Texas!! When we go for a Sunday...

I will be at our local Best Buy helping out. Do you have plans to be one of the first to get Vista? if so, let me know I would love to hear your story! Tomorrow is going to be amazing. I have seen Vista everywhere today. Email from Costo, BillG...

My friend Michael J. Murphy did a Vista, Exchange 2007 and Office 2007 launch event last week. He is so fun. He got his audience to "Do the WAVE!". Go check it out: http://blogs.technet.com/mjmurphy/ Enjoy!

go check out the videos on http://www.microsoftwowlaunch.com We had an great launch today.

I spend 5 hours last night and 12 hours today at the Best Buy by my house. It was lots of fun. I got to train the floor staff on how to demo Vista/Office and all the upgrade options, pricing and the features of it. This morning we handed out t-shirts...

I blogged about this a couple of weeks ago. MSNBC and news.com had articles back on 1/18 about it. Here is the deal. Buy Vista Ultimate. Then get up to two copies of Home Premium for $49.99 each. here is where you get exact information on how to...

www.skysurprise.com If you are running Vista, go to this site, you can get free access to T-Mobile hotspots until April 30th. We were passing out sickers with this on it today, now it's on my blog for anyone to find out about. Go enjoy!!

I am in NYC tonight for an Exchange partner event tomorrow. I had a little time tonight to walk around Time Square. I love the lights and all of the signs. As I thought, Vista is everywhere. Right about the ESPN Zone is there show us your "WOW" Vista...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117019715069692873.html?mod=todays_us_marketplace We moved up from #7 last year to #1 this year. Cool!

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml Funny!

Thanks to Mr. John Baker for the following information on Readyboost. You can see his blog at http://blogs.technet.com/johnbaker Windows Vista ReadyBoost Requirements Supported Form Factors and Busses ReadyBoost supports USB flash drives...

I saw this article today on fellow Microsofter and fellow sailor. Very scary. I hope is his OK. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/31/MISSING.TMP here is a second article http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16577699...

My co-worker Chris Henley is getting some great press lately. Here is a big story: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0207730.htm Check out his blog: http://blogs.technet.com/chenley