Want a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate direct from Microsoft, no piracy required? Don’t care about your privacy? Have I got a deal for you! Microsoft is offering up free copies of Vista Ultimate, Office Ultimate, Money Plus Premium, Student with Encarta Premium and Streets and Trips, all for free. All you’ve gotta do is allow them to track your every move for a few months.Yes, Microsoft is looking for people to help test its new “Windows Feedback Program,” and isn’t afraid to reel people in with bribes. You’ll have all of your computer usage tracked for three months, and you’ll also need to submit to surveys every two weeks. As long as you don’t mind Papa Gates and his menagerie knowing just how often you look at your ex-girlfriends Facebook profile, it’s actually a pretty serious amount of free software for almost no work at all on your part. Not that I’ll be taking part, mind you. I respect myself and my privacy. But hey, don’t let me stop you. I won’t tell; your computer will do that for me. [Windows Feedback Program via Notebook Review]
stevodude
December 12, 2007 at 9:38 AM
A shame it’s only available to US residents.
Report PermalinkOther wise I’d go into it, install on a PC, and wait 3months for the survey to finish, then use it fully hehehe.
David
December 12, 2007 at 9:57 AM
Why are these things only in the US? Come on MS Australia, we us computers down under too!
Report PermalinkAudioboxer
December 12, 2007 at 11:13 AM
They actually offered Office 2007 to australia students for some ridiculously low price last year – and no where else :(
Report Permalinkferal
December 12, 2007 at 11:36 AM
That would be typical.. US only..
Report PermalinkJimmy
December 13, 2007 at 3:03 PM
I signed up for this deal in November, great offer.
However I would have been gutted if I was still a student last year as then this Office 2007 deal was AUS only.
http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au/
However thanks to the success of that offer the Office Ultimate 2007 is now available to many more students in the UK, USA and Canada etc..
http://www.theultimatesteal.co.uk/
So hopefully Microsoft will bring another deal to AUS soon for you guys.
Still sometimes Microsoft offers stuff for free, I got OneNote2003 FPP free in the UK just for agreeing to test Office 2003.
Report PermalinkPJ
December 18, 2007 at 4:32 PM
[QUOTE]They actually offered Office 2007 to australia students for some ridiculously low price last year – and no where else :([/QUOTE}
they have it again this year, and its available in a number of countries and also Australia again. http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au/
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