Microsoft giving up free laptops with Vista installed

Posted by on December 27, 2006

Looks like Microsoft’s PR company is up to no good ;) They’re giving out free laptops with Vista installed to hopefully garner some word of mouth on the net. Clearly it is working, since I and a bunch of other people are writing about it. But MS giving away a laptop and having someone write about how good or bad Vista is will not sway me nor do I think it will sway many others. Vista seems interesting, but version 2 of it will be better. I feel sorry for all of the people who will be beta testing released software over the next 6 – 12 months. Will this MS PR stunt blow up in their face? Probably not, but it has people talking and that’s what matters I guess.

Misc.

2 Comments.

  1. Mitch Denny December 28, 2006 at 12:05 am

    Hi Todd,

    You should have seen the spike in my blogs traffic because of all this :)

  2. Adam December 28, 2006 at 7:48 pm

    “I feel sorry for all of the people who will be beta testing released software over the next 6 – 12 months.”

    I take it you’ve never used Vista RC1?