or so says powertogether:

http://www.powertogether.com/

supposedly, if you watch and complete three "labs", you get office 2007 free...i think it's the same for vista, but i imagine the site is being hit pretty hard, so that particular link is down

11/28/2006 12:15:10 PM

if it were vista home premium i might be interested

11/28/2006 12:18:39 PM

i was reading that from slickdeals and was gonna post here about it

it sounds too good to be true, so TWW, what is the catch?

11/28/2006 12:24:07 PM

catch is all the fuckwads hammered the site, so it's pretty much impossible to get through it now.

I'll try again later.

The funny part is, I actually WANT to watch some of the seminars, being that I'm doing platform development work based on the Vista framework

11/28/2006 12:29:22 PM

oh the other thing is you probably wont get it til march

Quote :

"If you are eligible to receive a free copy of Windows Vista Business*, we’ll begin shipping your copy within 6 to 8 weeks after Windows Vista is released to manufacturing"

that sounds like an additional 6-8 weeks after the release date in january. bummer

11/28/2006 12:39:38 PM

i saw this on slickdeals the other day

i wouldnt mind getting either of those for free...but i'd rather get office 2007 than vista

[Edited on November 28, 2006 at 12:56 PM. Reason : rather]

11/28/2006 12:56:27 PM

MSDNAA isn't going to do it for you? Well the OS at least.

11/28/2006 1:35:50 PM

not everybody has msdnaa

11/28/2006 1:40:33 PM

i still can't get to the step where i actually START a tutorial (the XML one interests me)

11/28/2006 4:42:22 PM

yo i heard once that people in computer engineering get free software and shit

do they get vista for free?

11/28/2006 4:54:10 PM

i'm sure they do...i got xp pro when i was still an engineer

11/28/2006 4:58:59 PM

damn...well from what i heard, they get 2 copies

11/28/2006 5:07:28 PM

i never did

11/28/2006 5:10:23 PM

Quote :

"yo i heard once that people in computer engineering get free software and shit do they get vista for free?"

We will, but I don't know when it will be posted. Office isn't included in MSDNAA.

[Edited on November 28, 2006 at 5:11 PM. Reason : ?]

11/28/2006 5:10:46 PM

If its an actual microsoft sponsered site its legit. They did the same thing for visual studio 2005 and I got my copy like s months later

11/28/2006 6:31:41 PM

with the amount of traffic going thru this site, if it wasn't legit it would already have been shut down

11/28/2006 8:53:47 PM

^^ i never got my copy of VS 2005

but I have the express versions I care about so no big deal.

11/28/2006 9:09:52 PM

I already have vista for free

11/28/2006 9:23:18 PM

that's great

11/28/2006 9:27:21 PM

well he didn't say that he had a license for free

I think there's a pretty large distinction there

11/28/2006 9:36:37 PM

Quote :

"yo i heard once that people in computer engineering get free software and shit"

11/29/2006 12:41:12 PM