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Windows Vista and 2007 Office Launch Events - Sign Up before it Sells OUT!

If you've been procrastinating about registering for one of the launch events, you need to sign up TODAY.  We have close to 30,000 attendees preregistered across the US and 3 event cities are SOLD OUT already.

The main site for registration is

http://www.microsoft.com/business/launch2007/signup/default.mspx

Depending upon how you profile yourself, with change which events appear.   If you are looking for events in Dallas and Houston, you need to list your self as a business in the 50-250 space or bigger to see those events.  For customers in the Small Business sector, there are other Launch events designed to focus on their needs.

Sign up, it will be worth  your time investment.

Halo 3 Beta is open to the Public!

Microsoft Opens Up Halo 3 Beta

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

December 6, 2006, 11:24 AM

Microsoft's Bungie Studios has put the call out for beta testers of the next installment of the Halo game series for the Xbox 360 console, set to offer for the first time a multiplayer aspect of the game through Xbox Live. Halo 3 is slated to come out in 2007, and Microsoft says it is offering the beta to allow gamers to become part of the development process. Feedback received would be used to refine the final product, it said.

Those interested can sign up through the Halo 3 Web site. It is open to North American gamers with an Xbox 360 and hard drive, and an Xbox Live Gold subscription. Additionally, gamers must be 17 years or older. Microsoft plans to eventually offer the beta in Europe, and it advised gamers there to watch their local Xbox sites for more details.