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[Riva]

Received the following email on the 24th of August.


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Greetings!
The release of Visual Studio 2012 & .NET Framework 4.5 is upon us! Your input during the development cycle has greatly contributed to this being a successful release for Microsoft® and we would like to send you a thank you gift to show our appreciation.
In order for us to send you your gift, we ask that you update an appropriate shipping address where we can send it. To ensure you receive this gift, please go to https://profile.microsoft.com, sign-in using your Windows Live ID and update your shipping information by Friday, August 31st, 2012. If you have any questions, or would like to opt-out of receiving the thank you gift, you can contact us at vsthanks@microsoft.com.
On behalf of the entire Microsoft Developer Division, thank you again for your involvement in making Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 great!

Visual Studio 2012 Team


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And today:
Great news! We’ve finally completed production on your thank you gifts to celebrate the release of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5. The Visual Studio 2012 team appreciates your patience and your continued support and we wanted to let you know that your gift is on the way.
Thank you for making Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 great!

Wonder what it is
Sorry about the title wasn't thinking clearly haha

[Silpheed2K]

Out of curiosity, what do you use VS2012 for? I mainly use GCC and the GNU compilers for my programming work.

[figgy]

I got one of this "gifts" for a previous release of Visual Studio.
It was a glass cube ( a paperweight )

[Colin McGregor]

Riva, on 11 December 2012 - 22:51, said:

Received the following email on the 24th of August.


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Greetings!
The release of Visual Studio 2012 & .NET Framework 4.5 is upon us! Your input during the development cycle has greatly contributed to this being a successful release for Microsoft® and we would like to send you a thank you gift to show our appreciation.
In order for us to send you your gift, we ask that you update an appropriate shipping address where we can send it. To ensure you receive this gift, please go to https://profile.microsoft.com, sign-in using your Windows Live ID and update your shipping information by Friday, August 31st, 2012. If you have any questions, or would like to opt-out of receiving the thank you gift, you can contact us at vsthanks@microsoft.com.
On behalf of the entire Microsoft Developer Division, thank you again for your involvement in making Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5 great!

Visual Studio 2012 Team


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And today:
Great news! We’ve finally completed production on your thank you gifts to celebrate the release of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5. The Visual Studio 2012 team appreciates your patience and your continued support and we wanted to let you know that your gift is on the way.
Thank you for making Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 great!

Wonder what it is
Sorry about the title wasn't thinking clearly haha

I want a thank you gift

[neufuse]

If you are expecting software for free, you are going to be disapointed..

Their gift order was for holographic engraved plastic cubes that say thank you from the visual studio 2012 team

[Riva]

Silpheed2K, on 12 December 2012 - 02:36, said:

Out of curiosity, what do you use VS2012 for? I mainly use GCC and the GNU compilers for my programming work.

Use it for ASP.NET, Dynamics CRM 2011, SharePoint 2010/2013 Development.
Also use it in conjunction with TFS for source control and ALM.

neufuse, on 12 December 2012 - 04:15, said:

If you are expecting software for free, you are going to be disapointed..

Their gift order was for holographic engraved plastic cubes that say thank you from the visual studio 2012 team

That will be ****

[neufuse]

Riva, on 13 December 2012 - 18:48, said:

Use it for ASP.NET, Dynamics CRM 2011, SharePoint 2010/2013 Development.
Also use it in conjunction with TFS for source control and ALM.


That will be ****

well that's what it is

[Riva]

neufuse, on 13 December 2012 - 19:02, said:

well that's what it is

Yeap for three releases...

[Detection]

I got a tall aluminium and blue leather coffee flask/cup saying IE8 or IE9 on the side for helping Beta test something or other, I forget what now

Left it at my old work though Was my daily coffee cup, even though it tried to burn my face off with every sip

[Riva]

Detection, on 14 December 2012 - 00:19, said:

I got a tall aluminium and blue leather coffee flask/cup saying IE8 or IE9 on the side for helping Beta test something or other, I forget what now

Left it at my old work though Was my daily coffee cup, even though it tried to burn my face off with every sip

More useful than a cube...

[Detection]

Riva, on 14 December 2012 - 00:54, said:

More useful than a cube...

For coffee yes, for pushing through a square hole, not so much