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Free Vista/Office with survey program participation
2007-12-11, 7:51 AM #1
[LEFT]Microsoft is giving away Vista Ultimate, Office Ultimate and a few others if you participate in a three month long program that monitors anonymous usage statistics of your PC. At the end of the three month period, they ship you a copy of your loot.

I signed up because I'm not :tinfoil:
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2007-12-11, 8:06 AM #2
Arrgh they be pirating my vistas
2007-12-11, 8:24 AM #3
I'm going for it.

I'll have to complete the registration process at home though, cause I can't access my email here at work.
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2007-12-11, 8:52 AM #4
I have it installed in Wine and took the survey. I wonder what type of data they're going to get from me... :P

[Edit] Never mind. It isn't actually running. I'll install it on my work PC, I guess.
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2007-12-11, 9:07 AM #5
Can't hurt to have a second copy of each that I never paid for. Academic Alliance for the win.
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Last Stand
2007-12-11, 9:13 AM #6
I'm going to try this, I hope I can obtain a legal version of Windows Vista.
2007-12-11, 9:17 AM #7
I'm going for it. It saves me from buying Vista.
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maeve
2007-12-11, 9:30 AM #8
Sweet, thanks for the heads up emon!
2007-12-11, 9:45 AM #9
I signed up, couldn't hurt to have an extra copy of Vista Ultimate around.

Thanks for the heads up!
2007-12-11, 10:10 AM #10
I would like to legally upgrade to Ultimate. Hopefully this works well.
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2007-12-11, 10:22 AM #11
For Americans only.

Another mark against you.
2007-12-11, 11:52 AM #12
If anyone is worried, just put the monitoring program on a spare PC.
2007-12-11, 12:14 PM #13
I wonder how many people will run it on their pirated copies of windows. :v:

o.0
2007-12-11, 12:46 PM #14
Originally posted by Greenboy:
I wonder how many people will run it on their pirated copies of windows. :v:


I was just thinking, hey man I should try that out! Oh, wait... yea. Yarrr and stuff.
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2007-12-11, 1:40 PM #15
my windows is legit (now). Hooray.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Lassev: I guess there was something captivating in savagery, because I liked it.
2007-12-11, 1:51 PM #16
After reading that, you can also take surveys rather than run the program. That sounds a lot better to me.

o.0
2007-12-11, 1:54 PM #17
Originally posted by Greenboy:
After reading that, you can also take surveys rather than run the program. That sounds a lot better to me.


You have to do both to recieve an item.
2007-12-11, 2:50 PM #18
yeah, stupid.

:p
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Lassev: I guess there was something captivating in savagery, because I liked it.
2007-12-11, 2:51 PM #19
Hm. Tempting.
woot!
2007-12-11, 2:54 PM #20
I'll put it on my parents computer.. thanks for the heads up!
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2007-12-11, 3:26 PM #21
They're more than willing to turn you in for piracy, if you read the privacy statement.

I'll put it on my laptop.
D E A T H
2007-12-11, 3:51 PM #22
As long as they can tell my copy of XP is Academic Alliance legit and not pirated, I don't care. I'm just looking forward to having two copies of Vista I'm not going to install anytime soon.
"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
Are you finding Ling-Ling's head?
Last Stand
2007-12-11, 4:42 PM #23
Are they really gonna go after you if you pirated stuff?
Back again
2007-12-11, 4:42 PM #24
Originally posted by Rob:
You have to do both to recieve an item.


BAH, I didn't realize that. :(

2007-12-11, 5:47 PM #25
Only US...
Goddamn
2007-12-11, 7:35 PM #26
Umm, so I installed the program... and now there's nothing. I don't see a task-bar icon, It's not in my Applications list.. I don't know what to look for to see if it's in my Processes list. How do I know it's working?
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Lassev: I guess there was something captivating in savagery, because I liked it.
2007-12-11, 7:42 PM #27
They'll e-mail you if it isn't. There's a shortcut in the Startup folder of your Start Menu, if clicking it will make you feel better.
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2007-12-11, 7:42 PM #28
There should be a couple of processes that start with 'wfp'.
2007-12-11, 7:46 PM #29
Rest assured that you are being watched. :ninja:
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2007-12-11, 8:07 PM #30
yay, found it.

Happy now.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Lassev: I guess there was something captivating in savagery, because I liked it.
2007-12-11, 10:08 PM #31
Doh, I had to delete this in phear of a Microsoft SWAT team.
2007-12-11, 10:14 PM #32
Originally posted by Microsoft:
What happened to the free product option?

Thank you for your interest in the feedback program. Due to overwhelming response, the supply of gifts have been exhausted so we have closed our free product offer on 12/11/2007 at 2pm. Thanks to everyone that participated!
:v:

2007-12-11, 10:19 PM #33
BAH I really need Office 2007 legally.
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2007-12-12, 6:59 AM #34
Yeah I ran a boost copy of XP Pro for like 2 years before buying it. Some people just don't have the change to throw into it.
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2007-12-12, 8:59 AM #35
Originally posted by The Mega-ZZTer:
:v:


so.. does that mean that if we set it up on the 11th we get the free program?!
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Lassev: I guess there was something captivating in savagery, because I liked it.
2007-12-12, 9:18 AM #36
i'm definately un-signing up then.
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2007-12-12, 12:27 PM #37
Originally posted by Sarn_Cadrill:
so.. does that mean that if we set it up on the 11th we get the free program?!


this

2007-12-12, 12:44 PM #38
This reminds me of the "fill out a survey and MS will send you a free flash drive" thing from about a year ago. It hit digg and all the other usual sites, everyone filled out the survey, and MS replied with something like "due to overwhelming demand we aren't going to give you a flash drive, thanks for filling out the survey though!".
2007-12-12, 1:09 PM #39
stupid ms.
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2007-12-12, 1:18 PM #40
M$
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