Windows Vista/2007 Microsoft Office System: Worldwide Release to Consumers Virtual Pressroom: Event Coverage for Jan. 30 | | | | Steve Ballmer Kicks Off Consumer Availability in New York Best Buy, Jan. 30, 2007 | | Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited a Best Buy store in New York to celebrate the official unveiling of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system to consumers. | | Bill Gates Joins United Kingdom Launch Event at the British Library, London, Jan. 30, 2007 | | In London to mark the United Kingdom launch of Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates joined Lynne Brindley, CEO of the British Library, to announce the digital reunification of Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks, famous for images such as the Vitruvian Man. The two pieces, known as the Codices, are owned, respectively, by the British Library (Codex Arundel) and Gates (Codex Leicester). A technology called "Turning The Pages," which is based on Windows Vista, has made it possible to bring the two parts of da Vinci’s notebook together for the first time since the artist’s death in 1519. |
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