<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a239ce0d-f944-4fe6-a0b0-817b7277131c/B2883EDF-23A6-40B5-8F8B-AA3580470B42/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10604711" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10604711" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nzherald.co.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10604711"><SPAN class="date-time"> <STRONG> 8:13AM</STRONG> Thursday Oct 22, 2009 By <A href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/matt-greenop/news/headlines.cfm?a_id=342">Matt Greenop</A> </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10604711"><H1> Windows 7 launches first in NZ </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10604711"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nzherald.co.nz/img/EB476E50-38A4-4A2D-AD17-DE9C729CFB6C" alt="Richie McCaw joins the throng at this morning's Windows 7 launch." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10604711"><P>Hundreds of people descended on events in Auckland and Wellington this morning to mark the world's first launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10604711"><P>In Auckland's Queen Elizabeth Square in the CBD throngs of people tried to win Hewlett-Packard computers loaded with the new operating system, given away every 10 minutes throughout the event by All Black captain Richie McCaw. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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