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Vista Ultimate with Service Pack 1 Promotional Software Kit
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Enterprises Warming To Windows Vista by Benjamin Gray - Forrester Research
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forrester.com — For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals ( Length: 6 pages ) Executive Summary ( This is a... document excerpt ) Forrester recently completed its annual hardware survey, and we found that IT managers at North American and European enterprises are ... (more) Enterprises Warming To Windows Vista by Benjamin Gray - ...
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Free Vista promotions may not be free after all
Betanews — ... system for free. But it's hard not to complain when you're all ready to install it and you discover, surprise, it may not be free after all. That's the situation facing perhaps hundreds of recent recipients of Windows Vista Ultimate SP1, as gifts for attending the company's MSDN seminar tours. To ensure that recipients register their copies and only use them once, Microsoft printed a promotional code inside the jacket, which is not the usual product key. By visiting the Web site www.registerwindowsvistasp1.com and entering the promotional code, recipients are given the full ...

Microsoft promises the return of its Vista promotional registration site
Betanews — ... recipients of promotional copies of Windows Vista Ultimate -- folks who are guests at Microsoft-hosted seminars and conferences, for instance -- to register and activate their copies, will be reinstated later this week. Guests who received copies of Vista can still install them, for the meantime, though without the all-important product keys, they'll time out after 30 days. Promotional copies are sent with special promotional codes inside, which recipients are asked to enter on the company's promotional Web site . But that site was built to go offline on December 31, even ...

Vista promotional registration site now fully operational
Betanews — ... February 3, 2009, 10:13 AM Success! Vista promotional recipients can now register their copies online Guests of recent Microsoft seminars and conferences who received copies of Windows Vista Ultimate will be delighted to know the Web site for registering their copies and receiving their product keys, is now fully operational. ...

Vista Ultimate SP1 Promotional Software Kit site online
(Obsolete Feed) — ... Windows 7 may be in the works, and Microsoft may be giving the beta away to the public, but not everyone wants an unfinished product. If you recently attended a Microsoft event, seminar, or conference where you received a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition with SP1, you'll be happy to know that the Web site for registering your copy is now live. After you enter your promotional PIN code, the site requires that you fill out a brief survey, but this isn't surprising; Microsoft never misses a chance to get feedback from its users. Once registered, your product key will be sent ...

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