When we first saw the image of Linus Torvalds giving the thumbs up in front a ton of copies of Windows 7 Home Premium, we knew it was going to be a big hit. We decided against posting it right away, even though we saw it the night before everyone started blogging about it. That was a mistake, at least in the sense that we weren't part of an image that quickly went viral. Microsoft apparently set up a big Windows 7 promotion booth across the street from the conference center of the Japan Linux Symposium. During a break, an attendee dragged Torvalds over to the Microsoft booth for kicks, a photo that will go down in history was taken. The Linux guru did not buy a copy.