Windows XP SP1 Release Party, August 30, 2002
 
Early morning fog as seen from the I-5, north of Seattle, approaching Everett...
 
Windows XP Service Pack 1 shipped, prompting afternoon festivities on the big field at the center of the main Microsoft campus...
 
       
 
 
 
Music by the Minnie Murphy country band. Young Minnie sang pretty and her daddy the guitar player did some fine yodeling! The bass man sang a few Waylon Jennings numbers by request and the drummer looked like Ray Mitchell of the Rank Outsiders (back in north Carolina)...
 
       
 
The mechanical bull...
 
       
 
Cowboy boots, cowboy boots...
 
Taking pictures...