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Free Netbook From Microsoft, Then Things Got Weird

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-get-what-you-pay-for dept.

paiute writes "Matt Karolian, a Marketing Communications major at Emerson College in Boston 'won' a netbook in a Microsoft re-tweet competition (whatever that is). Then the prize arrived, and it was not exactly the high-quality major award he had expected from Microsoft."

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  1. Re:Who cares? by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Forget virus/rootkit scans. Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

    (in this case, replace "nuke it from orbit" with "install Linux on it")