Free memory and Antivirus for new Windows XP Pro users
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Consumers who acquire Windows XP Professional will receive a PNY 256MB PC-133 SDRAM memory module free after mail-in rebate and Symantec's new Norton AntiVirus 2002 software from Best Buy Company Inc., CompUSA Inc., Office Depot Inc. and Staples Inc. retail stores. Valued at $129.98, the promotion is scheduled to run during select periods from Oct. 25, 2001, to Jan. 31, 2002.
"PNY is pleased to be aligned with Microsoft and our channel resellers in this year's most exciting computer-related event," said Anthony Gomez, vice president of channel sales and marketing for PNY. "We are committed to being at the forefront of this new technology with our high-quality memory products. Consumers who acquire Windows XP Professional will boost the performance of this new powerhouse operating system with PNY's 256 MB memory and Symantec's new Norton AntiVirus 2002 software. The combination of PNY memory, Symantec software and Microsoft Windows XP Professional will provide users with a highly efficient solution for their computing needs."
Additionally, Kingston and McAfee are getting into the same game.
"The launch of Windows XP is a milestone in the evolution of computing, enabling users to experience the digital world in new and exciting ways," said Jim Allchin, group vice president of the Platforms Group at Microsoft. "This Kingston, Microsoft and McAfee great deal will ensure that users can take full advantage of the great features Windows XP has to offer."
The promotion will be offered from Oct. 25 through Dec. 31, 2001, with similar offers from Kingston and Microsoft available to customers in Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Special home offer: Customers who acquire a copy of Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and McAfee VirusScan 6.0 will get a free Kingston ValueRAM 128MB memory module with mail-in rebate.
Enough of the freebee’s the Windows XP launch, didn’t start on time, was around 9:15 that it started, we saw the Windows XP “yes you can” Madonna video, then heard from Bill Gates, (obviously taped!) in New York, and then Steve Ballmer later in the event.
Showed off some history of computing, even a donkey.bas, one of the first programs that was written for GW-BASIC, running on an XP box in compatability mode, proving that you can run old dos programs, then they showed off the donkey.net “.NET” enabled version, you now have to kill the donkeys by driving into them! (We’ve got to find this donkey.net version, looks rather neat in a twisted sort of way!) And all of this was done on a P4 system with a GF3 graphics card, which was rather quick.
The actual Windows XP demo showed nothing new or exciting to most of our readers to NeoWin. A shootout was produced to show off the many benefits of Windows XP vrs Windows 95 OSR2. Rather lame if you ask me, This went on for like 25-30 minutes, I actually felt bad for the Windows 95 guy trying to do some of the features that were being showcased for Windows XP. Wish they could have showed IM in Windows 95, so not to alienate the whole Windows9x public, some of which cannot upgrade from their current systems to systems capable of running Windows XP.
Some good points were using the new Instant Messaging 4.5 client (showing off a Compaq iPAQ with Poctet PC 2002 and IM over 802.11b networking, rather neat!) which they said was available now. (no mention of PowerToys though!). They showed off IM and a web cam demo (touting no drivers config's to do!), White boarding (as per usual this didn’t go as planned, way to go Microsoft, every event I have attended has had something go wrong!) with Microsoft Word 2002, and then demonstrated the Remote assistance feature, which was good.
They touched on some other features, digital camera plug and play with a Canon FireWire enabled camera, downloading movies, adding wallpaper and a Madonna music track. They also showed off the new main logon screen, the new start bar, my documents and the taskbar grouping etc..
Towards the end they showed off the Plus Pack, showing one or two of the new screen savers, everyone went ooh at the aquarium one (big improvement from the Windows 95 one!). No new themes :( but we have tgtsoft's contribution to thank for now having the proper ability to have new themes by end users!
At the end, they had a rather nice lady on the stage (very tall, slim blonde, short skirt, you can guess why she was picked to be the contestant for this segment of the event!). She was there to play one of the games in the Plus Pack, bowling, she walked away (after playing not so bad, got a total of 7 pins down) with 500 dollars, with Microsoft donating equal amount to a charity of her choice. A very nice gesture on Microsoft’s part, still though, would have been fair if they had have given the audience an equal change to participate, but obviously they wanted someone the majority of the audience would like on stage…. :)
Overall I was not impressed, I would have liked a live feed from NYC for the real Windows XP launch, which I will most probably see when I get home on TechTV or download the video footage.
They had a 30 minute break, after which they were going to have a kind of more in depth feature look at Windows XP, but for me, it was a rather large disappointment.
What did I come away with, a few CD’s a T-shirt and a breakfast. Better do a lot more in future if you intend to get people to come to your events at 7:30 in the morning!
me101, aka the 'Crazy Irishman'