I’ve been running Windows 7 since Beta stages and as soon as the product was finished most people in Microsoft moved from Vista. Are you interested in understanding how Microsoft deployed Windows 7 to around 100.000 people worldwide? On Microsoft IT Showcase you find many examples of how we internally are using our own technology. There are white papers, videos, web casts etc and one of the recent web casts (now available on demand) are Deploying Microsoft Windows 7.

Once again, Catherine Eibner organized a WIT Lunch at TechEd. The focus of the lunch was to recognize and award women that are supporting other women in their community.

The award was called Women in IT Community Contributor of the Year 2010 and we had some great finalists, many of them involved in mentoring, Girl Geek Dinners or supporting young women. Read more about them and the winner at Catherine’s blog

Later this year we will release the first Service Pack to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Already now you can try out the first public Beta to see what the Service Pack will bring. Remember that this Beta is not supported by Microsoft so don’t install this on your production machine :-)

Read more about requirements and download the Beta here

On July 14th and 15th, Gorgeous Geeks will participate in a conference in Kuala Lumpur focusing on Work Life Balance. The keynote will be made by the Minister of Women, Family and Community Development and speakers also include Alecia from Gorgeous Geeks together with male and female speakers from various organizations and industries. More information about agenda and how to register here

Are you a woman? Are you technical? Do you want to know what it’s really like to work for Microsoft? Then you should tune in to our web cast on May 25th where women from our Services organization talks about three of the different roles we offer for those of you passionate about technology and working with customers. The session on May 25th is at 8 pm Singapore time and we also do three more sessions for other times zones.

Read more about the event and register here. The event is of course open for men as well :-)