We totally fucking had a Windows 7 Launch party in the back room at BuzzFeed, you guys. It was the BEST goddamn Microsoft Operating System themed party I have EVER been to. Are you installing, or thinking about installing Windows 7 today? Upload pics of your own launch or pre-launch parties below!

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1. Host Your Own Pirated Windows 7 Party
2. Microsoft Wants You to Throw a Windows 7 Party
3. Censorship Makes Windows Launch Party Seem Way More Interesting

Microsoft finally gets it with this heartbreakingly adorable commercial for Windows 7 that blows that Mac Guy out of the water. Let's face it: the Internet loves kitties surrounded by marshmallows!

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Google's auto-suggest search feature reveals a lot about the deep, inner psychology of the site.

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Microsoft's Bing Jingle contest winner is the most gets-into-your-head-and-won't-leave advertising song since Toyota's “Saved By Zero” campaign. If you easily get songs stuck in your head, I don't recommend clicking through to watch this.

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1. Saved By Zero Backlash
2. Microsoft Hires Jerry Seinfeld As A Pitchman
3. Microsoft Cancels Seinfeld Ads

We'll never know why Microsoft decided to pull this ad for Internet Explorer 8. But we will get to see a guy that looks kinda like Will Forte slip in vomit.

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Have you “Binged” yet? I used the new search engine for the first time today, and was greeted with this. Too soon? At least it's relevant.

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1. thailand - Bing
2. David Carradine Found Dead @ BuzzFeed

CULTURE BUZZ: Browse through 53 archival issues of Playboy, for the articles of course, and zoom at will. Downside is installing Microsoft's Silverlight, which is like Flash, only not actually Flash. Upside is issues ranging from 1954 to 2006 — you can read Nabokov and Sartre, and then you can watch how everything went downhill fast in the '80s.

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The Best Links:

1. The Playboy Archive
2. Fellini’s “Satyricon” Photo Essay (May 1970, NSFW)
3. Sartre, The Parisians and The Germans (January 1966)
4. Interview With Allen Ginsburg (April 1969)
5. Nabokov’s “Despair” (December 1965)
6. Via Fimoculous

Did anyone else do a mini-swoon for Microsoft's latest Windows commercial? Kylie, 4 ½, explains how she easily mails pictures of her fish Dorothy to her family. The girl is practically a computer hacker, but why does she have to email her parents? WHERE ARE KYLIE'S PARENTS?!?!?!!?!?!?

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Microsoft Songsmith can turn anything into music genius, including the downward spiral of the global economy. This is clever, but then it gets kind of depressing. Cheer yourself up with a selection of classic songs Songsmith-ified.

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1. Nothing Can Prepare You For The Microsoft Songsmith Commercial
2. Classic Hits By Microsoft Songsmith
3. Economic Failure Medley, by Microsoft Songsmith

Footage from a 1983 Macintosh conference that's doing the rounds today features Steve Jobs hosting a “dating game” starring Bill Gates. The premise and the execution are just hopelessly dorky, but it's pretty amazing to see these two guys interacting and being all from the '80s and stuff.

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I knew it looked familiar!

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Apparently, the Zune is still a thing, and they have a new ad that debuted during Heroes last night. This is not that ad, but it is much, much grosser. It was created on spec for the company by Sibling Rivalry , and you will never be able to scrub your brain clean of its imagery. Which is what a good ad's supposed to do, right?

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1. Zune Spec Ad Is Gross and NSFW, But At Least It’s Memorable

Just when you thought they couldn’t get any weirder , Seinfeld and Gates release their second commercial. This one titled, “New Family”. At 4.5 minutes long, the ads come off more as a really bad web series than a viral commercial.

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1. Seinfeld’s Microsoft Commercial - Featured Video on BuzzFeed
2. Critics Say Gates-Seinfeld Duo No Laughing Matter - WSJ.com

We told you it was coming , and now it’s here. So, Microsoft is coming out with a Bundt cake PC?

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1. Seinfeld Backlash - Featured on BuzzFeed
2. Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft Pitchman - Featured on BuzzFeed

BUSINESS BUZZ: Microsoft’s next ad campaign will feature Seinfeldian shtick. It’s the plight of the funnyman: Once the funny stops, there’s only advertising. Life seems more like Mad Men every day.

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1. Seinfeld’s Getting $10 Million for the Gig
2. Take That, John Hodgman!

The original Microsoft team recreates a photo snapped in 1978! Didn’t they steal this idea from Ze Frank’s Youngme-Nowme Project ? Microsoft is really, really good at copying creative ideas. ;)

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1. Submit Your Old Me, New Me Photos
2. Read The Newsweek Story On the Microsoft Photos
3. More on Ze Frank’s Color Wars Project

TECH BUZZ: A Microsoft/Yahoo deal would create a legion of weird new hybrids. Mircosoft Del.ici.ous, anyone? How about Hot Yahoo Mail? We can’t really get what $44.6 billion looks like, but we could imagine the bad things Microsoft could do to Flickr. Hence our personal favorite anagram of both company names: Hot, Roomy Fiasco. Update: Yahoo says no thanks .

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1. Microsoft Plus Yahoo Equals What?
2. Flickr Rebellion Brews
3. Nice - Microsoft in the Yahoo Font!
4. Yahoo Says No, No, No
5. Three Stars for This Photoshop Job
6. Anagrams for Yahoomicrosoft
7. Yes, We Agree: MicroHoo is Clearly the Better Name

TECH BUZZ: Like Howard Beale in Network , many longtime Microsoft Word users are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. So they’re abandoning Word in droves, turning instead to Google Docs and other more elegant, intuitive, user-friendly apps such as Scrivener , WriteRoom , and Buzzword for all their word-processing needs.

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The Best Links:

1. An Interface of One’s Own
2. Goodbye, Cruel Word
3. Microsoft Word Has Passed Away. Time of Death: 12:23 AM
4. In Search of a Distraction-Free Computer Desktop
5. Write Here, Write Now, Write Anywhere: 13 Free Web-Based Word Processors
6. Ditching MS Word for Text Editors
7. Word Processing for Mac
8. What’s the Word On Ditching Word?
9. WriteRoom: Distraction-Free Writing
10. Scrivener: Outline. Edit. Storyboard. Write.
11. Buzzword Preview