While at Northern Voice, I managed to take in the Windows Vista demo lead by Robert Scoble and Chris Pirillo.

The demo was interesting and it shows that Microsoft is looking to add some more ‘pretty’ stuff to Windows, is concerned about security and is working on enhancing performance.

Check out this photo I grabbed from Now Public. In it you’ll see Robert and Chris Demoing away, the others in the frame are me, Matt Mullenweg creator of Wordpress, and Kevin Marks of Technorati (who at that moment was fixing the indexing of Web 2.0 Central in Technorati… how cool is that?).

The crowd was interested but after the demo was done, Chris said he had OSX running on his Think Pad and crazily asked if anyone wanted to see it.

What happened next was the geek version of a paparazzi rabid shark feeding frenzy. DOZENS of people were snapping photos. You’d think Chris exposed a nipple or something.

Photo by mastermaq

The coolest thing about the Microsoft Vista session at Northern Voice 2006 ? OSX running on an IBM Thinkpad.

(Sorry Robert.)

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