Announcing our ?Best Windows 7 Story Contest? for IT professionals.

As manager of the Windows 7 TechNet forums, I can tell you that we see a large volume of posts in all areas of Windows 7, including security, deployment, application compatibility, hardware compatibility, and more. In all, we?ve received more than 310,000 Windows 7 posts. The IT Pro community, consisting of a large network of MVPs, community influencers, Windows 7 Product Group members, Support Engineers, and many others, works hard to get you timely answers to your questions. Statistically, 84% of the questions posted in the Windows 7 TechNet forums get answers.

We see many interesting questions asked in the forums, but posters typically ask short questions and provide only enough detail to get their questions answered (which is appreciated by the community J). It occurred to us that there are some very interesting ?stories? behind those posts, so we created a new contest called the ?Best Windows Story? to let you tell your story in more detail.

IT pros, we?d love to hear your story about how you installed, migrated, upgrade or deployed Windows 7 Professional or Enterprise in your organization and we?ll pick the ten best stories to win a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate (32 or 64 bit). (Please note, we are only looking for IT pro submissions for this contest.)

We?re accepting submissions (English only) beginning 12/15/2010 and ending 01/31/2011. Some suggestions for the best stories are those that show how you or your organization were faced with challenges and how you overcame them.  The better you write a compelling story to show how ?Windows 7 saved the day?and helped your organization or how challenges were overcome in a clear and concise manner, the better chance you have to win. Winners will be judged on the most compelling stories.Keep in mind that long stories are not necessarily more compelling. Full details about how to enter and contest rules can be found in this TechNet forum post.

We?re really looking forward to hearing the great stories, so please submit yours today for a chance to win a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.

Brittany Daniel Kate Moss Zhang Ziyi Nikki Reed Natasha Bedingfield