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You guys do know there's 2 training sites right??

Microsoft Canada Online Retail Training

This is the same deal, for the the employees of companies that resell MS products as well. You need an employee number to register with this one though. If anyone who is currently an employee and would like to register, please pm me, as I get 200 points for every referall. The link I posted above is for the Canadian site, there are ones available for other nations as well. I have 8600 points myself right now (xp pro is like 1500, and office 2k3 pro is like 2000) but the store is out of stock of everything, I emailed them today, and they said it will be replenished with new prizes in the next week or two.

Plus they have random sweepstakes draws, I'm currently entered to win an Alienware Media Centre Shuttle PC, an Olympus Digital Camera, and an mp3 player or something. My boss at work got like a good $1000 worth of software from this training, and I finished the entire thing in a weekend, just waiting for prizes now :sleep:

Anyway, like I said, PM me if you want to join (Canadian), otherwise, visit HERE to register if your from somewhere outside of Canada (I don't think I can refer non Canadians, but I'm will to try if someone wants to PM me).

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I'm not sure if this will work for everyone since microsoft checks your employment before they send you stuff. I've been taking these tests for over a year once I started working at Best Buy. Currently I have 12,100 PC training points, 10,495 Xbox training points, and 25 Mobile training points (I got 2 of the swiss army knives).

I don't think many of us including myself will be receiving anything then. lol.

Oh well, as I said earlier, worth a try, not that I even thought in the first place anything would work.

You guys do know there's 2 training sites right??

Microsoft Canada Online Retail Training

This is the same deal, for the the employees of companies that resell MS products as well. You need an employee number to register with this one though. If anyone who is currently an employee and would like to register, please pm me, as I get 200 points for every referall. The link I posted above is for the Canadian site, there are ones available for other nations as well. I have 8600 points myself right now (xp pro is like 1500, and office 2k3 pro is like 2000) but the store is out of stock of everything, I emailed them today, and they said it will be replenished with new prizes in the next week or two.

Plus they have random sweepstakes draws, I'm currently entered to win an Alienware Media Centre Shuttle PC, an Olympus Digital Camera, and an mp3 player or something. My boss at work got like a good $1000 worth of software from this training, and I finished the entire thing in a weekend, just waiting for prizes now :sleep:

Anyway, like I said, PM me if you want to join (Canadian), otherwise, visit HERE to register if your from somewhere outside of Canada (I don't think I can refer non Canadians, but I'm will to try if someone wants to PM me).

404s for both URLs :s don't know why I bothered anyway I'm not a MS employee.

You guys do know there's 2 training sites right??

Microsoft Canada Online Retail Training

This is the same deal, for the the employees of companies that resell MS products as well. You need an employee number to register with this one though. If anyone who is currently an employee and would like to register, please pm me, as I get 200 points for every referall. The link I posted above is for the Canadian site, there are ones available for other nations as well. I have 8600 points myself right now (xp pro is like 1500, and office 2k3 pro is like 2000) but the store is out of stock of everything, I emailed them today, and they said it will be replenished with new prizes in the next week or two.

Plus they have random sweepstakes draws, I'm currently entered to win an Alienware Media Centre Shuttle PC, an Olympus Digital Camera, and an mp3 player or something. My boss at work got like a good $1000 worth of software from this training, and I finished the entire thing in a weekend, just waiting for prizes now :sleep:

Anyway, like I said, PM me if you want to join (Canadian), otherwise, visit HERE to register if your from somewhere outside of Canada (I don't think I can refer non Canadians, but I'm will to try if someone wants to PM me).

employee number?... my bro works for an IT company his employee num would work?... does it have to be a retail store?...

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