Well, the consumer launch came and went in Malaysia on 7th November 2009. Didn't manage to capture much pictures or video this time cause I was a bit distracted by other things. I'd say this went down better than the Windows Vista launch a few years back.

Most importantly because.. hey look there's a queue for people to buy Windows 7!

That in it's own made it much better than the Windows Vista launch even if the queue didn't gain much momentum initially.

But then again, most people won't buy Windows 7 on it's own, but rather get the PCs that come with Windows 7.

If we were doing a pure square footage comparison of the event area, the Windows 7 launch in Low Yat is much smaller compared to Windows Vista's launch in Low Yat. All Windows 7 gets is the atrium area in Low Yat.

Where as Windows Vista got the whole front street of Low Yat. But this is a good thing for the Windows 7 launch for 2 reasons. The first being that it's the rainy season now, and boy was there a STORM on the 7th. The 2nd being that Low Yat was not the ONLY place that had a Windows 7 launch event, PJ, Penang and JB all had their own launch shindigs.

To help fuel the live excitement and activity in the launch events, there was also a live twitterboard that was displaying hashtag activity on site.

On one column the results of a Twitter hashtag of #win7my was displayed and refresh roughly every 3 minutes, on the left column photos from the other launch venues were displayed so you could check out what was happening in the other venues even though you weren't there. And the neat little application was powered by Silverlight!

Here's a short video of the launch event that I recorded with my little Creative Vado

But the excitement of the Windows 7 launch still AIN'T OVER YET! There's still one more event for the industry which will launch Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010. The New Efficiency event  happens on the 24th Nov 2009 over at the KL Convention Center.

See you there then!