Microsoft yanks free Vista, Office offer
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversMicrosoft Corp. on Tuesday withdrew an offer of free copies of Windows Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 in exchange for consumers agreeing to install monitoring software, saying it had exhausted the supply of software.
Until mid-afternoon Tuesday, the company's Windows Feedback Program was handing out copies of Vista Ultimate, Office Ultimate 2007 and other software to users who agreed to complete regular surveys and to install a program that tracked Windows and Office use for three months. The program transmitted the information to Microsoft's servers daily.
Under a section titled "What about the free product?", the program's Web site spelled out the freebie. "If you are a Windows Vista or Windows XP user and decide to join and participate in both programs, we will send you a free Microsoft product when you participate in the program. Limit one gift per person. This offer is nontransferable. This offer expires on 12/31/07, while supplies last and is not redeemable for cash. Taxes, if any, are your sole responsibility."
Although the free offer remains viewable in a version of the page cached by Google Inc.'s search engine, the paragraph was removed from the live site Tuesday afternoon.
References to the Windows Feedback Program and the free offer go back to at least early November, but Microsoft did not publicize the deal.
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Comments(2)
lol at m$ forgetting about all the hidden "spyware" they build into their os's.
there is a program (xp-antispy), that not only lists the numerous, an i mean
numorous! different "spyware" m$ use as part of their lowley os, but lets u kill em too.
kill em... kill em all!! actually i think 1 or 2 qare needed... google that
shit tho.
...that they got anyone to take that bloated crap. they could pay me $400 and i wouldn't
take it.well maybe but i would go out and buy a new system with xp
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