Rather than showing us their Halloween costumes, our pals in Redmond are giving the world a look at their packages. And not in an All American Rejects publicity stunt [bwe] way, gutter brains. Instead, Microsoft is showing off the curvy plastic shells that will bring their seemingly decades-awaited operating system to little John Hodgmanesque PCs around the world.

(via gizmodo [#], which has pictures of the whole fleet)

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