Announcement: Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Now Accepting Applications!

Still accepting entries for the Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Only 15 days left!!!!!!

Matt Hester's WebLog — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:06:04 GMT

It is crunch time folks there are only 15 days left in the Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest . 

re: Announcement: Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Now Accepting Applications!

tower defense — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:45:46 GMT

Here we've got a great opportunity for the community to come up with some positive material to attract some attention to some of the great things that Windows 7 has to offer.

Windows 7 Rocks Contest

Blue — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:24:30 GMT

I really enjoy video when it is used to convey concepts in technology.   Matt Hester and Keith

re: Announcement: Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Now Accepting Applications!

Matt Hester — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:52:11 GMT

Daniel, thank you for the feedback and Keith and I are still learning about contests. We are taking small steps and went from several hundred in our first contest to several million for this one. If this contest goes well and we can handle the video workload for the U.S., then we will look at the possibility to go global.

re: Announcement: Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Now Accepting Applications!

Matt Hester — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:46:38 GMT

First off Foo, were not buying anything, we are giving away stuff. BTW watched the video, not that impressed take a look at a real work load here: http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2008/06/07/new-laptop-windows-vista-sp1-virtual-machine-world-record.aspx

Your chance to win a Lenovo T61p Laptop

Full of I.T. — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:22:44 GMT

“Isn’t that your favorite laptop you’ve ever had?” Yep.  This is the model I have two of, that I

re: Announcement: Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Now Accepting Applications!

danieldsmith — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:12:23 GMT

Here we've got a great opportunity for the community to come up with some positive material to attract some attention to some of the great things that Windows 7 has to offer.

I had a neat little upbeat video in mind...then I read the T&Cs - way to go MSFT - alienate and exclude the entire world ouside of the United States :-(

re: Announcement: Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Now Accepting Applications!

someone — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:43:52 GMT

Why only tech pros? I'm such a Windows enthusiast but my profession is something completely different.

re: Announcement: Windows 7 Rocks Screencast Contest: Now Accepting Applications!

foo — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:05:05 GMT

It seems Microsoft is trying to buy grassroot support, so people will make nice videos like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z39n5Tleo0A

Windows 7 Screencast Contest Announced: Win a Laptop and more

The User Experience Blog — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:20:17 GMT

Windows 7 Screencast Contest Announced: Win a Laptop and more