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Steven77

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Lmao i just woke up from doing this last night myself. This is hilarious/outrageous that were still doing this hahaha. What, probably about a million keys gone now??? I am an MS fanboy but i will be the first one here to say it, MS F***ED UP ROYALY ON THIS ONE.

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Brad.

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You do not simply click into Mordor. You paste it on top of a logged-in TechNet page and press enter.

Although it has given me a blank page once. ;)

Too many people trying.

Tried that in Chrome 100 times, no luck, tried it in firefox 50 times, no luck.

Just tried it once in chrome and it worked. LMFAO.

for the record I didn't fill out any form, just sign into technet with my live passport.

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zodd

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Whee, two keys for me (one x86, one 64-bit, they're different by the way). After only 2h of greasemonkey hammering.

And blank page on the script is from the hammering I think. I got it a couple of times now, but it works sometimes (and redirects to productkeys, which is the one that has to be refreshed).

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yakumo

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I've finally got a key of my own! After 15 hours of trying (I started midnight GMT, it's now 15.10 )

I was kindly donated one by someone, but wanted my own so it was account associated so I can do feedback officially. Once I've made sure mine works I'll let the original owner know he can re-donate his spare if he wishes.

Anyone know where it's logged on techet so you can check it's properly associated with your account ?

( UK user, firefox 3.05, logged into technet, connect and profile.microsoft.com and refreshing the page brought after the original link ending 1033 )

I just hope they're real and not just fakes spat out as a solution to stop people hammering ;)

The download link it comes out with does nothing but redirect to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/

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