Vanishing Point Trip-to-Space Winner Announced, Webcast Today at 2:30PM CST

Today Windows Vista and AMD announced that William Temple of California, USA has won the Vanishing Point grand prize, which includes a trip to see the ultimate vista -- the earth from space courtesy of Windows Vista, AMD and Rocketplane.  The team at Windows, AMD and Rocketplane are hosting a conference call and webcast at 2:30PM CST today to answer your questions on everything from Vanishing Point to space flight.  Click here to join and type in meeting id 9XK464.  Astronaut and Rocketplane Commander John Herrington will also be joining to answer any questions about space flight.

Will has won a great prize package including the trip to space, along with a Windows Vista-based, AMD-powered Dell desktop PC; a 24-inch widescreen monitor; a Zune™ digital media player; an Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system; three Games for Windows® game titles; a Microsoft® LifeCam VX-6000 webcam; Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007; and $50,000 cash.

Vanishing Point was a global puzzle game that played out online and in the real world to celebrate the launch of Windows Vista.  Clues were delivered via spectacular events, such as a custom light show in the fountains of the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, skywriting and gorgeous building projections around the world, and a fireworks finale in Seattle.  You can check out the conversation tracking it here.

Vanishing Point was one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time, and the Windows Team and I enjoyed meeting some of you at the finale in Seattle.  Be sure and check out the webcast, and congratulations to Will!


Comments

  1. Posted on: February 12, 2007 at 8:51PM  

    Great stuff congrats to William Temple thats quite an achievement to win and go to see the earth from space.

    Also for those who are interested in Windows Home Server, Beta 2 has now been Released & you can signup here

    http://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsHomeServer

    according to http://www.neowin.net/

    I dont have a spare box hanging around that meets the specs but it sure looks interesting.

  2. Posted on: February 12, 2007 at 11:52PM  

    Oh and nice that Will won a tricked out AMD system too, and 50,000 cash.

  3. Posted on: February 13, 2007 at 4:18AM  

    Nothing to do with space, but everything with Vista. I have identified a small bug with lots of nuisance value and I don't know how to effectively communicate it. This is it:

    I always set the Volume Control with lots of difference (100% vs. 15%) between "Windows Sounds" and "Media Player". Otherwise I don't hear the Windows sounds ;-)

    Every time I start Media Center these settings are cleared and Media Player is back to 100%, booming away when I start it. I count that as a bug, don't you?

  4. Posted on: February 13, 2007 at 1:19PM  

    Hi Condor:  I'm passing your feedback along to the teams managing MCE functionality and audio management -- thanks for posting it here.

  5. Posted on: February 21, 2007 at 11:08PM  

    thanks for share.

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