Free MS Vista (Business) and Office 2007 Professional

[Gino]

Here: http://www.powertogether.com/ (http://www.powertogether.com/)

And here (http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/archive/2006/11/27/get-vista-and-office-for-watching-webcasts-at-powertogether-dot-com.aspx) and here (http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=261537) for discussions from "official" MS employees.


Full disclosure: The site is hosted in the UK by a MS partner (info below). If you want to receive both Vista and Office you'll need your SSN and fill out a W-9, due to the price of the combined "gifts" (taxes will be due!). All indications point that this is a valid site, however I personally will log-in with two names - one for Vista and one for Office 2007 - so as to NOT give out that info. Use at your own risk!


Site info:

Domain Name.......... powertogether.com
Creation Date........ 2006-10-03
Registration Date.... 2006-10-03
Expiry Date.......... 2007-10-03
Organisation Name.... Philip Colebrook
Organisation Address. Flat 13, Inner City House
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. London
Organisation Address. SE14 6QP
Organisation Address. -
Organisation Address. GREAT BRITAIN (UK)

Admin Name........... Philip Colebrook
Admin Address........ Flat 13, Inner City House
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ London
Admin Address........ SE14 6QP
Admin Address........ -
Admin Address........ GREAT BRITAIN (UK)
Admin Email.......... pcolebrook@gmail.com
Admin Phone.......... 44.2086915308
Admin Fax............

Tech Name............ CBS Registry
Tech Address......... Box 3396
Tech Address.........
Tech Address......... Stockholm
Tech Address......... SE 103 68
Tech Address......... -
Tech Address......... SWEDEN
Tech Email........... registry@melbourneitcbs.com
Tech Phone........... 46.855340200
Tech Fax............. 46.855340201
Name Server.......... ns1.msft.net
Name Server.......... ns5.msft.net
Name Server.......... ns2.msft.net
Name Server.......... ns3.msft.net
Name Server.......... ns4.msft.net

Registry Status: ACTIVE


Good luck!

[andy]

*I* would still approach that with GREAT caution. *ANYBODY* who want my SSN is suspect.

[DavidTaylor]

There is NO WAY I am giving anyone I don't know that king fo information for free (and probably pirated) sofwtare. That's a case of Identity Theft just waiting to happen.

[Gino]

There is NO WAY I am giving anyone I don't know that king fo information for free (and probably pirated) sofwtare. That's a case of Identity Theft just waiting to happen.

I agree - but all indications by the major sites do indicate that this is real - even so, I still wouldn't give my SSN to any company (even if it was Microsoft - who would use it only to help me... :rolleyes: )

[rkirker]

I have ben told this is a Phising scam there is no way any Microsoft Partner needs you SSN !!!!!
BEWARE !!!

Oh and this thread should be posted uder the humor forum :rotf:


Here: http://www.powertogether.com/ (http://www.powertogether.com/)

And here (http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/archive/2006/11/27/get-vista-and-office-for-watching-webcasts-at-powertogether-dot-com.aspx) and here (http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=261537) for discussions from "official" MS employees.


Full disclosure: The site is hosted in the UK by a MS partner (info below). If you want to receive both Vista and Office you'll need your SSN and fill out a W-9, due to the price of the combined "gifts" (taxes will be due!). All indications point that this is a valid site, however I personally will log-in with two names - one for Vista and one for Office 2007 - so as to NOT give out that info. Use at your own risk!


Site info:

Domain Name.......... powertogether.com
Creation Date........ 2006-10-03
Registration Date.... 2006-10-03
Expiry Date.......... 2007-10-03
Organisation Name.... Philip Colebrook
Organisation Address. Flat 13, Inner City House
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. London
Organisation Address. SE14 6QP
Organisation Address. -
Organisation Address. GREAT BRITAIN (UK)

Admin Name........... Philip Colebrook
Admin Address........ Flat 13, Inner City House
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ London
Admin Address........ SE14 6QP
Admin Address........ -
Admin Address........ GREAT BRITAIN (UK)
Admin Email.......... pcolebrook@gmail.com
Admin Phone.......... 44.2086915308
Admin Fax............

Tech Name............ CBS Registry
Tech Address......... Box 3396
Tech Address.........
Tech Address......... Stockholm
Tech Address......... SE 103 68
Tech Address......... -
Tech Address......... SWEDEN
Tech Email........... registry@melbourneitcbs.com
Tech Phone........... 46.855340200
Tech Fax............. 46.855340201
Name Server.......... ns1.msft.net
Name Server.......... ns5.msft.net
Name Server.......... ns2.msft.net
Name Server.......... ns3.msft.net
Name Server.......... ns4.msft.net

Registry Status: ACTIVE


Good luck!

[dshealey]

Any offer that requires a SSN, along with ANY other personal information is just about an iron clad guarantee to be a phishing scam, this one is pretty elaborate, with blogs posted to make it look legitimate.

I would not touch that one with someone else's 10 foot pole!

edited: Also, if the offer is only for the US, why is the admin in London, and the registry location is Sweden?

Yep, a very elaborate scam.

[rickcavanaugh]

Someone in London would not need a us SSN for tax purposes.

[scottydawg]

I think this whole thread should be deleted for the safety of our members.

[Gino]

I think this whole thread should be deleted for the safety of our members.

If it's a "scam" then it reaches into the Microsoft pretty deep: it's being advertised by Channel 9 employees, MSDN and links to Windows Live. The certificate belongs to MS, the registrar is MS, and most major sites have hacked it's legitimacy to death (Neowin, Digg, Google).

I leave it to the moderators to delete this thread if they deem necessary - I won't cry (much) :D .

[hoog62]

If it's a "scam" then it reaches into the Microsoft pretty deep

So deep, it's not even mentioned on their own site. It's a fucking scam.

[rixchard]

Tis not a scam. If you want I can provide some links that will substaniate my claim

[Gino]

Tis not a scam. If you want I can provide some links that will substaniate my claim

...although some of us already knew that... kind of a dead point as both items are "sold out."

[rixchard]

Such is life

[dshealey]

...although some of us already knew that... kind of a dead point as both items are "sold out."

I was surprised that this was real, but no matter, I removed MS Office from my home machine anyway, and hate it at work. I went back to WordPerfect suite which has always been leaps and bounds better than the MS product. I will not touch Vista probably for at least a year after it is mainstream, if then.

Heck, if I stop using CAD, then I may even switch to MAC next upgrade time. Since I upgraded my computer in the last year, it may be another 5 years before I do that again. Right now though, I use CAD too much to consider MAC. Neither of the systems I use will run on one.

[zippy_gg]

I use openoffice instead of MS-Office, but I'll have to start playing with Vista as soon as I get some spare time. I'll first try to run it in a virtual machine under VMWare and not screw up my production environment.
Vista just may be a great excuse for a new machine anyway...
Change is inevitable...

[Zotter]

You'n Me Zippy

OpenOffice here - I've one MS boxen for games but everything else (6 at the house, 5 at the office) all run Linux. One MS box runs OpenOffice and Office 2k. I don't think O2K's been fired up in a year or so now.

Gonna haffta play with Vista to support it :sigh: But, I've no plan to use it myself. Been suggesting to our clients to put off the upgrade unless there's some compelling reason. Ain't seen a compelling reason yet.

[andy]

Gonna haffta play with Vista to support it :sigh: But, I've no plan to use it myself. Been suggesting to our clients to put off the upgrade unless there's some compelling reason. Ain't seen a compelling reason yet.

some here, have to support it. But as far as compelling reasons: There is none.

[zippy_gg]

Been suggesting to our clients to put off the upgrade unless there's some compelling reason. Ain't seen a compelling reason yet.Zotter, unfortunately new PCs are sold with a coupon for a free upgrade to Vista, and pretty soon PCs will ship with Vista installed. So Microsoft makes it a "compelling" reason to upgrade... Citrix will shortly put out a new client to resolve some issues with Vista... It just never ends. An upgrade prompts for many more.:(

[messenger13]

I think this whole thread should be deleted for the safety of our members.You read my mind Scotty!

[danbrew]

some here, have to support it. But as far as compelling reasons: There is none.

Zotter & Andy...

no compelling reasons? come on...

business users? what about bitlocker drive support? what about MUI? what about SUI?

yeah, i work there. you would not believe how many of our largest corporate customers are planning to go to vista enterprise. huge numbers.

my $0.02.

[Gino]

Zotter, unfortunately new PCs are sold with a coupon for a free upgrade to Vista, and pretty soon PCs will ship with Vista installed. So Microsoft makes it a "compelling" reason to upgrade... Citrix will shortly put out a new client to resolve some issues with Vista... It just never ends. An upgrade prompts for many more.:(


Hopefully they (HP, Dell, Gateway, etc.) will do what they did for "businesses" when XP was introduced - offer Windows 2000 Pro for a while before phasing it out. We were still able to order a new PC with 2KPRO up until around when XP SP2 was introduced.

I'm hoping we can still get a new PC with XP up until Vista SP2 is released.

[RdcrzR]

I agree with a couple of the others - OpenOffice works for me. It works perfectly fine with any/all of the formats used in the Office Pro suite of tools, as well as offering a data base tool.

I use it exclusively on my personal PC, and plan to stick with it unless I have to use MS tools for my work.

[scottydawg]

John you had too look deep in the dusty file cabinets to find this nearly two year old thread :) .

[Bobnoxous]

John you had too look deep in the dusty file cabinets to find this nearly two year old thread :) .No kidding. I started reading this thread thinking it was current. It wasn't until I got to the end I looked at the post dates.

Things have changed in 2 years. Today, I'd recommend OpenOffice. It works on Linux, OS X (neoffice, with native support soon) and Winblows, and does a good job of reading and writing in Word format, although I suspect microsoft will break that soon by changing their format.

[andy]

AND there are still 0, zilch, nada compelling reasons to upgrade.