Vista Developer Launch compo winners

scoopex · 26 Feb 2007 at 22:17

Anyone else win a copy of windows vista ultimate ?

Congratulations!

We're very pleased to tell you that you were one of the first 1000 people to qualify for a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate by taking part in our UK Developer Launch event online.

We will ship the prizes to the winners as soon as we take delivery of them from our manufacturing unit. You can keep up to date with our shipment schedule via Ian Moulster's blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ianm.
Your prize will be shipped to the following address:

Once again, many thanks for taking part in our Developer Launch event and we hope that you enjoy using your product.

Kind regards

The UK Developer Launch Team

BigAl · 27 Feb 2007 at 09:51

Same email here. Well chuffed.

scoopex · 27 Feb 2007 at 10:23

BigAl said:
Same email here. Well chuffed.

Ian just confirmed that they are the full retail versions of windows vista ultimate.

lol.

leaskovski · 27 Feb 2007 at 15:07

I like entered the compo in about 7 to 10 mins of it going live and i didnt win! Gits the lot of you!

Stu · 28 Feb 2007 at 21:13

I didn't get my answers in until about 40 minutes after it opened, so I wasn't holding my breath... but, email has arrived - a copy of Vista Ultimate coming my way!!!

It may still have bugs, but I'll happily take a free retail copy!

Did anyone win a copy of Office 2007? I chose the "Enter for both" option, but the email indicates that I've only won Vista.

Curiously, my wife entered the competition about 2 minutes after me, and she hasn't yet had an email saying she's won... weird! Maybe right on the cutoff?

Macro · 1 Mar 2007 at 01:38

Grats you lot..... (Jammy gits!!!)

Rapid-D · 1 Mar 2007 at 01:39

leaskovski said:
I like entered the compo in about 7 to 10 mins of it going live and i didnt win! Gits the lot of you!

leaskovski · 1 Mar 2007 at 10:10

Stu said:
I didn't get my answers in until about 40 minutes after it opened, so I wasn't holding my breath... but, email has arrived - a copy of Vista Ultimate coming my way!!!

It may still have bugs, but I'll happily take a free retail copy!

Did anyone win a copy of Office 2007? I chose the "Enter for both" option, but the email indicates that I've only won Vista.

Curiously, my wife entered the competition about 2 minutes after me, and she hasn't yet had an email saying she's won... weird! Maybe right on the cutoff?

WTF!? 40 minutes! I did it within 10 minutes and i haven't heard anything. And i checked with the blog and i am sure i put the same answer in! :rolleyes:

EDIT:

MS said:
Could people check their contact preferences via https://profile.microsoft.com (choose the "my contact preferences" option).

If you have "do not contact" set under the email from Microsoft option it seems that we would not have sent you an email even if you were a winner due to data protection rules.

Note that if you were a winner and didn't receive an email because of this you will still be shipped the product when we have it. That is, the email was for information only it doesn't affect anything else. Of course, you won't *know* that you're a winner in that case...until you receive the product.

Well i have all of these unchecked so this is why i have not had an email then from MS saying that i may have won. Looks like i will have to wait till around the 12 of March to see if i have won! :rolleyes:

scoopex · 1 Mar 2007 at 11:38

A winners list is being published.

toString · 1 Mar 2007 at 12:17

Lucky guys! I'm pretty jealous, and I got Business free though MSDN:AA. Hate to think what everyone else feels like

leaskovski · 1 Mar 2007 at 12:23

scoopex said:
A winners list is being published.

Not confirmed yet though

bikes · 1 Mar 2007 at 13:54

Well done to the winners

Stu · 1 Mar 2007 at 20:46

Has anyone won a copy of Office?

lokkers · 1 Mar 2007 at 22:05

Curses, not heard anything

Can anyone remember the answer, out of curiousity?

PinkPig · 1 Mar 2007 at 22:30

lokkers said:
Curses, not heard anything

Can anyone remember the answer, out of curiousity?

From the blog:
Windows Vista: Experian

Microsoft Office: K2 and Meridio

The 1000 people for Vista went within the first 30 minutes or so, unless you were very quick you wouldn't have got it. The 1000 for Office took a long time but the question was tricky because you needed to give two answers! The plural in the question obviously wasn't enough of a clue for everyone....

I won a copy of Office.

Stu · 1 Mar 2007 at 23:42

PinkPig said:
From the blog:
Windows Vista: Experian

Microsoft Office: K2 and Meridio

The 1000 people for Vista went within the first 30 minutes or so, unless you were very quick you wouldn't have got it. The 1000 for Office took a long time but the question was tricky because you needed to give two answers! The plural in the question obviously wasn't enough of a clue for everyone....

I won a copy of Office.

That explains why I didn't win Office! I only gave one answer. I didn't realise that the two questions were separate, one for each prize.

Well done PinkPig.

lokkers · 2 Mar 2007 at 19:17

PinkPig said:
From the blog:
Windows Vista: Experian

Microsoft Office: K2 and Meridio

The 1000 people for Vista went within the first 30 minutes or so, unless you were very quick you wouldn't have got it. The 1000 for Office took a long time but the question was tricky because you needed to give two answers! The plural in the question obviously wasn't enough of a clue for everyone....

I won a copy of Office.

Double curses because thats the answer i gave. I recon I put the answer in about 6:10 as I was driving home.

Nevermind