If you live in the Silicon Valley area, you have a chance to be one of the first to get Windows Vista SP1 (pre-release version) installed on your computer. Microsoft is holding their second install fair (the first was in Redmond, Washington) which they’re doing so they can gather performance data from multiple computers with different applications installed. There are a few requirements that your computer must meet, but if you show-up to get the service pack installed, you’ll be thanked with a pretty decent gift.
Here’s the requirements that your PC must meet:
- 1GHz or higher processor
- 512 MB of RAM
- 4X or 8X AGP video adaptor with 64MB of RAM
- 6GB of free hard drive space
- DVD-ROM drive
You’ll need to register in advance to do this, and the dates are December 8-9 from 9 AM to 4 PM at their Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View. Both laptops and desktops are wanted, just be sure to bring your power cord. Another important this is to backup all of your data before you go! As I said, this will be a pre-release version which means it may not be smooth sailing from the start.
Oh, and that gift I mentioned… you’ll get a free copy of Office 2007 and a “special gift”! If only they came out to the Midwest to do this, I’d definitely be willing to have SP1 installed if I could walk away with a free copy of Office!
Source: Download Squad
Wow, there are millions of people who would be willing to install it for free but because the want to limit it they have to fork over their flagship software just to get people to show up.
It almost sounds like their trying to get office 2007 some free(and much needed) publicity.
That’s what I was thinking. Why do they essentially need to pay people to install the software when there are millions who would do it for nothing. Maybe the Vista team wants the hands on experience so that they can diagnose the critical issues immediately rather then just receiving a slew of bug reports.
I can’t stand microsoft products anymore.. In my opinion Microsoft Office is the only thing that they did well..
I got impressed by the new mac os x Leopard…And thats why I moved to apple’s OS..
You should do what this mac ad says: give up on vista!
weshow.com/us/p/24256/apples_ad_dont_give_up_on_vista
Apple FTW!
I sent an email figuring if I was chosen I’d give Office 2007 as a Christmas gift since I already have it from another Microsoft promo, but I haven’t heard back. I use both Vista and Leopard and so far I think Vista is the better OS.
Wow, between Victor and jallen64 it looks like we have two differing views of Vista and Leopard. I guess that is the reason we’re lucky to have choice!