Loaner laptop and FREE Office 2010

ShogoXT · Jun 25, 2009, 02:21 PM

https://connect.microsoft.com/officecustomerstories

I wasnt sure where to post this. Here or the software forums.
Anyway, I found this on another site. If you sign up in the link above you get a loaner laptop to use for a while that has office 2010 on it. If you complete the whole thing you get a Office 2010 for free when it comes out.

Interesting?

h3llb3nd4 · Jun 25, 2009, 02:25 PM

Damn! only in the US

Kreij · Jun 25, 2009, 02:30 PM

6 month commitment of daily use and be filmed for some MS advertising campaign?
Then give the laptop back?

I'll pass.

h3llb3nd4 · Jun 25, 2009, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kreij

6 month commitment of daily use and be filmed for some MS advertising campaign?
Then give the laptop back?

I'll pass.

Be filmed?

I'll pass also if I was in the US....

DonInKansas · Jun 25, 2009, 02:33 PM

Just say you dont like it and you won't be on TV. lol

I signed up. What the hell.

ShogoXT · Jun 25, 2009, 02:35 PM

Same, i wont go on film though.

h3llb3nd4 · Jun 25, 2009, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DonInKansas

Just say you dont like it and you won't be on TV. lol

I signed up. What the hell.

heh, no, I dont really care about being on TV....:P
(*other reasons...eg.I use PB, DN & MN)

MRCL · Jun 25, 2009, 02:38 PM

Give laptop back? Why do they give you that loaner in the first place then and not just an ISO like they did with Win7...? You would have to reoganize everything to that lappy, and when you have to give it back move everything off... just seems inconvenient.

Kreij · Jun 25, 2009, 02:41 PM

Probably because they are going to load it with software that "phones home" regularly to see what you are doing with WO 2010.

I would probably consider it if I got to keep the laptop, but 6 months of use and attend online trainings and be involved in other social stuff is a lot just to get a free copy of Office.

ShogoXT · Jun 25, 2009, 02:43 PM

Well guru3d (where I found the link) seems to think there is a possibility to keep the laptop maybe depending on what microsoft thinks.

DanishDevil · Jun 25, 2009, 06:57 PM

Hell, I signed up

stinger608 · Jun 26, 2009, 03:31 AM

Yea, what the hell, I signed up

Might be kind of cool. Hell, I could use it in my college classes, as they support Microsoft Office 2007. I would imagine that it will be able to save documents in earlier versions, much like Office 2007 can.

Thanks for the link ShogoXT!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Cheese Danish · Jun 26, 2009, 03:37 AM

Hell, what is there to lose? I signed up.
Hopefully they won't catch me typing "Microshaft"...

ShadowFold · Jun 26, 2009, 03:40 AM

I signed up. I'm gonna be starting my senior year in high school soon, so this would be pretty useful for me

Flyordie · Jun 26, 2009, 03:46 AM

I stopped doing the hardware/OS/Software reviews 3 years ago... Its pretty bad when you have to give the laptop back after all those months... but my guess is its just to keep the lazy ones out of the program and the serious ones will actually put the effort in and do a good job and get to keep the laptop?

stinger608 · Jun 26, 2009, 03:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flyordie

I stopped doing the hardware/OS/Software reviews 3 years ago... Its pretty bad when you have to give the laptop back after all those months... but my guess is its just to keep the lazy ones out of the program and the serious ones will actually put the effort in and do a good job and get to keep the laptop?

That would be a fair guess Flyordie!!!

Jun 25, 2009, 02:21 PM	#1
ShogoXT Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 935 (0.49/day) Thanks: 38 Thanked 92 Times in 72 Posts System Specs	Loaner laptop and FREE Office 2010 https://connect.microsoft.com/officecustomerstories I wasnt sure where to post this. Here or the software forums. Anyway, I found this on another site. If you sign up in the link above you get a loaner laptop to use for a while that has office 2010 on it. If you complete the whole thing you get a Office 2010 for free when it comes out. Interesting?

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Jun 25, 2009, 02:43 PM	#10
ShogoXT Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 935 (0.49/day) Thanks: 38 Thanked 92 Times in 72 Posts System Specs	Well guru3d (where I found the link) seems to think there is a possibility to keep the laptop maybe depending on what microsoft thinks.

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