Inside the Windows 7 Launch Party Pack

Barence writes to tell us that it seems Microsoft has been grinding away in the corporate world for so long, they have forgotten what "fun" means. PC Pro managed to get their hands on one of the "party packs," and it seems woefully inadequate. Nowhere did we see a pin-the-chair on the Ballmer game, giveaways that you might actually use, or even a few balloons or streamers. Instead, the only reason to get a party pack seems to be the free copy of Windows Ultimate Signature edition, which doesn't do much for your party guests (unless you burn them all copies I guess, but we would never condone that). All-in-all, it seems that Microsoft should have gone to the nearest dorm room and asked for some pointers on how to have a good party.

Re:Nerds!

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't really understand comments or decompilers, do you?

Re:I wonder

[TheRaven64]

Probably be more fun. The local LUG runs these periodically. I've never been to one, but they sound a lot more fun than the parties described in the video, and at the end the guests all get to take home their computer with a new OS installed, they aren't told that they have to spend $300 to get the features they've just seen. Mind you, all of the features they actually talked about have been available for much less - free in many cases - on *NIX, OS X, and WinXP for a good five years or so...

Party Pack!

[Jaysu]

So I'm wondering what is actually inside the party pack. Since I'm wanting to abide by the rules around here, can someone please read TFA and tell me?