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chicagoSun
July 7th, 2004, 19:42 PM
Pm me with your name, email addy and company name (doesn't have to be real)

And I'll get referal points towards these neat prizes!
Fancy Pen (400 points)
Flight Simulator (400 points)
Swiss Army Cyber Tool (700 points)
Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse (700 points)
Encarta Reference Library 2003 (700 points)
Microsoft Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo (1500 Points)
Windows XP Pro Retail (1500 points)
Swiss Army Travel Kit (1500 points)
Swiss Army Watch (2500 points)]

Sign spend about 1/2 hour there and you'll have about 1,000 points of your own! You'll also be able to refer up to five of your friends for a total of 1,000 additional points! You must sign up and refer freinds or take demos and quizzes to earn points though!

PS I only need three more.

petard
July 7th, 2004, 20:19 PM
Zzzzzzz......

(and I'm an M$ shareholder)

Just have one of the M$ sales staff give your company's IT group a demo of their latest stuff. Mention you're primarily a UNIX/Linux shop and they'll bring all sorts of "toys".

chicagoSun
July 7th, 2004, 20:33 PM
Kewl

egghead
July 7th, 2004, 20:51 PM
mmm...

I like toys

especially those ones.

The swiss army stuff rocks!!!!

I'm almost willing to get spammed!

kinda worried about M$ having my name hotmail address, work place and home address to send the toys.....

Kinda like Big Brother paying a visit hehe


Thanks for the info....

Good Luck everyone

rik
July 7th, 2004, 21:01 PM
Funny, I just saw the same thing over at MSFN...

chicagoSun
July 7th, 2004, 21:27 PM
Um you think you have an MS Hotmail account and they not know where you live? Check with your ISP they already have you on there mailing lists.

I get all kinds of stuff from MS. Just about everything that looks like a catch after careful reading you should find the checkbox for do not share this with third party vendors.

On the other hand I have some great addins from third party vendors for VS.NET and MS SQL server.

petard
July 7th, 2004, 22:24 PM
Being an M$ shareholder has "blessed" me with a few goodies. Also being a gov't contractor has brought a few of the above listed items my way as well. So by all means, sign up, get the cool stuff. At least they're high qualitiy trinkets.

chicagoSun
July 7th, 2004, 23:28 PM
Ah damn...looks like refeals are over, sorry peoples try your luck with this: www.windowsmobiletraining.com

Very selfish of me trying to get referals, I thought of you guys as you have alerted me to other kewl stuff from MS. *Stands in corner trying to make my way to behind couch where no one will find me*

z3n
July 8th, 2004, 01:11 AM
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Mention you're primarily a UNIX/Linux shop and they'll bring all sorts of "toys".

Heheh nice one.

Thanks for the heads up Chicagosun. ;)