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Microsoft Giving Away Vista Ultimate, With a Catch

Posted by kdawson on from the no-free-lunch dept.

Opinari writes "In case you haven't heard, Microsoft is giving away copies of Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit or 64-bit DVD), Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007, Microsoft Money Plus Premium, Microsoft Student with Encarta Premium 2008, or Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008 — you can choose any one. The caveat is that you have to let them monitor your use of the program."

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  1. Re:Which is the catch? by yoyhed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, you have to at least admit that XP is still much better than Vista.

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  2. Satellite? by alexandre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How would they monitor me playing frisbee with it? :]

  3. who wants it anyway? by wikinerd · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who wants MS software anyway? Even if it's free, when there are alternatives such as Debian, MS can't compete. Hell, MS software comes by force with most laptops and prebuilt PCs (and usually you can't ask for a no-software machine... it comes by force in the meaning of "you either buy it as it is or don't buy it at all"), MS software is full of annoyances (clipper!) and bugs and is the central target of all crackers worldwide. It's okay to get MS Windows on a laptop and leave it there as dual-boot with a GNU/Linux distro just in case you ever need to run something on real Windows. But wanting to buy something made by MS or even wanting MS software for free is pure psychopathology.

  4. Re:Which is the catch? by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You clearly mean well, but you seem to be ignoring the Slashdot writing style guide.

    Genuine Disadvantage. Very witty, but this is non standard.
    Microsoft: This is not to be used. Microshaft is the preferred way to refer to this company. M$ is an acceptable abbreviation.

    Remember, advocacy only works if we all use the same satirical terms for things. This gives the impression that not only are we rabid, obsessed and angry, we are disciplined too.

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  5. FUCK IT, I DO IT! by Wolfdan72 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ha ha thats funny! Its like hey were going to let you test our shitty OS because people are going back to Xp! Fuck, I will take up their offer and put ME and 3.1 on VM and use them for the remaining three months. Also download all kinds of porn and tell them that Vista still sucks and burn the dvd and piss on the ashes and send back to them! I mean come Microsoft, just tells us your desperate and that you fuck up!

  6. Re:Which is the catch? by entmike · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow, I run Vista and have NONE of those problems. Sounds like a shitty install, or shitty hardware, or shitty IT. I've got Vista on my laptop and home PC, so does my roommate. Funny how none of us have had a single problem with it.

  7. The real catch is it's Vista by Thaelon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The real catch is it's Vista.

    *ducks*

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  8. Re:Free... by encoderer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow. That was a stunningly bad joke.