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Microsoft Announces 2008 Ultimate Install Contest
Today at the Electronic House Expo (EHX) in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft Corp. announced the 2008 Windows Media Center Ultimate Install Contest. This exciting design contest, now in its second year, seeks to recognize the residential integration business that best utilizes Windows Media Center in a custom home installation project.
“Once again, custom installers have the chance to show the amazing things that can be done with our Windows Media Center platform,” said Scott Evans, group manager in the Entertainment and Devices eHome Division at Microsoft. “Professionals in the custom home electronics channel have always been distinguished by their creativity, execution and personalized solutions for their customers. This contest gives them a chance to showcase the great work they are doing with Windows Media Center, the latest and greatest tool in their efforts to build the most functional and exciting digital homes yet.”
Contest Eligibility Overview
The goal of Windows Media Center Ultimate Install Contest is to identify the finest implementation of the Windows Media Center platform as designed and installed in a residential electronics system:
- A company may submit up to two unique entries to the contest.
- Entry form and detailed submission process can be found here .
- Each entry must contain information regarding the project cost and engineering details of the installation, a minimum of five photos of the project (maximum of 10) and an installation overview with highlights and a list of integrated components used.
- The installation must be completed before the close of the contest entry period.
Deadlines and Prizes
All entries must be submitted by Aug. 1, 2008, at midnight PDT. The winner will be announced at CEDIA EXPO 2008 in Denver on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. The winner, a guest and the homeowner of the winning entry will receive a prize package encompassing the following:
- A trip for one to CEDIA EXPO 2008 in Denver
- A trip for two to Microsoft including airfare and two-night hotel accommodations in Seattle, with a campus tour and a $1,000 cash prize
- A photo shoot of the winning installation
- A technology prize package for the winning homeowner, including an Xbox 360 Elite video game system, games and Zune digital media players with a home AV kit
Official rules and eligibility are available here
Source- Microsoft Press Release
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Microsoft Office Live Workspace Sweepstakes
Today Microsoft is launching a $100,000 sweepstakes for U.S.-based Office Live Workspace users. The sweepstakes will award more than 30,000 prizes, including $100,000 that the winner could use to fund a college education, a new business or favorite charity — the choice is up to the individual. The sweepstakes will run through May 11, 2008, and the winner will be selected around May 15, 2008.
Microsoft will award a grand prize of $100,000 and an assortment of more than 30,000 daily and weekly prizes to include Xbox 360 Elite Video Game Systems, Samsung Blackjack II Smartphone devices, 30GB Zune players, Expedia hotel and package coupons and Microsoft Office Professional 2007. Participants may enter for a chance to win by registering for Office Live Workspace. Participants can also earn up to two bonus entries to increase their chances of winning when they upload their first document to their Office Live Workspace account and the first time they share a document or workspace with others.
More information about the sweepstakes can be found at http://www.officelive.com/workspace/sweepstakes.
My 360 Moment (Contest run By Microsoft )!!!!
Secretly a contest is being run by Microsoft for Indians named My 360 Moment .(They cannot hide any such thing from us!!!)
Three categories has been added namely Wild,Fun and Whacky.According to the terms and conditions this contest runs from Dec 20th, 2007 to Jan 31st, 2008 and Microsoft can curtail or extend the Scheme Period, as it deems necessary.
Now here are contest prizes-
Weekly prizes: 4 Weekly Prizes - HCL Notebook H21
Daily prizes: 30 Daily Prizes - HCL Leaptools
Bumper prize: 1 Grand Prize - HCL Leaptop Z2901
Really cool aren’t they so to get one of these prizes all you have to do is to submit a photograph and a caption in case of a draw and you will be entered for the voting by the viewers.The photo which gets the highest number of votes daily wins the daily prize, the photo which gets the highest number of votes weekly wins the weekly prize & the photo which gets the largest number of votes at the end of Scheme Period, wins the bumper prize.
So if you want to win a prize just submit a photograph and give us the link we will surely vote for you!!! 
Here is the link for the contest site- http://www.360moment.com and do hurry only 15 days left.
Here is our 360moment http://www.360moment.com/VoteImage.aspx?ImgId=124
If U like it then please do vote for it!!!!
Register for Heroes Happen Here; THE biggest launch event of the year!
The launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 represents the largest outreach to IT professionals and developers in the history of Microsoft.
As a Microsoft Partner, the launch represents an opportunity for you to become a “hero” to your customers, who will be relying on your expertise to help guide them through the implementation of these three products.
The upcoming Partner Heroes Happen {2008} launch event is a complimentary evening session that has been created exclusively for Partners and will follow the daytime Customer event across six capital cities. The Partner event is designed to highlight the benefits of the much awaited new products and provide guidance to help you capitalize on launch opportunities. It will feature a keynote and three optional tracks which you will be asked to select from based on your business priorities.
Places are limited, so secure your spot today!
There are many more countries so to register for your country visit here
Win with Windows contest returns!!!!
Remember the Win with Windows contest that we published a few months ago.Now the same contest returns with much more goodies which could be won by U.Here are the details-
1.HTC Touch Mobile Phone & 1000 F&B coupons worth Rs.100 from Café Coffee Day to be won.:
a.Participants of the ‘Win with Windows’ Contest round 1 can compete to win the HTC Touch Mobile phone under the Win with Windows: Yet Again Contest by completing the slogan and referring atleast 5 friends. Only if the 5 referrals fill up the profiling form, the participant is eligible to win
b.The referred participants of this contest need to fill in their details and complete the slogan in not more than 10 words to be eligible to win a Café Coffee Day Voucher. They can further compete to win the HTC Touch Mobile phone by referring atleast 5 friends
c.By October 31, 2007, 1000 winning entries and the winner of the grand prize - HTC Touch Mobile phone will be selected basis form completion & quality/content of the slogan. Winners will be announced on this website. Gifts will be couriered to the address specified by the participant in the contest form
This contest is for only those who have got the mails from Microsoft or who are invited by the friends to participate so if U wanna an invite just reply and I would send one!!!!!!
Take a look at the contest page here- http://www.microsoft.com/india/winwithwindowsreturns/
Update- I just got the mail but is unable to login so will be sending the invites as soon as I sort this out
Join the Microsoft Student rockstar contest!!!
Few days ago Microsoft announced the 2nd edition of the Student Rockstar contest. Calling out all young technology enthusiasts to learn more about Microsoft technologies, share knowledge, participate in competitions, projects, events, quizzes, and much more. For these activities, you earn points and get a rank in the contest, which eventually determines your rewards and opportunities. This is the perfect chance to try your luck at becoming a Microsoft Student Partner or win XBoxes, Windows mobile phones and flash drives.
Register before 25th Sept 2007 to win 50 bonus points!
Also an exciting competition is being held by Microsoft- “Light Up Your College” – that gets your creative juices flowing and gives you the chance to design an innovative website for your college, using Microsoft Next Web technologies.
So, if you’re interested in web development, you can make this your first step to real life assignments and in the run, win prizes worth Rs.50,000 !
Find out more… http://www.studentrockstar.com/LightUpYourCollege.aspx
This contest is only for the students studying in engineering colleges in India.
So hurry up friends and join the student rockstar contest here- http://studentrockstar.com
Google Sponsors Lunar X PRIZE to Create a Space Race for a New Generation
The X PRIZE Foundation and Google Inc. today announced the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million prize purse. Private companies from around the world will compete to land a privately funded robotic rover on the Moon that is capable of completing several mission objectives, including roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the Earth.
The Google Lunar X PRIZE is an unprecedented international competition that will challenge and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration. The X PRIZE Foundation, best known for the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private suborbital spaceflight, is an educational nonprofit prize organization whose goal is to bring about radical breakthroughs to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today.
“The Google Lunar X PRIZE calls on entrepreneurs, engineers and visionaries from around the world to return us to the lunar surface and explore this environment for the benefit of all humanity,” said Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation. “We are confident that teams from around the world will help develop new robotic and virtual presence technology, which will dramatically reduce the cost of space exploration.”
“Having Google fund the purse and title the competition punctuates our desire for breakthrough approaches and global participation,” continued Diamandis. “By working with the Google team, we look forward to bringing this historic private space race into every home and classroom. We hope to ignite the imagination of children around the world.”
About Lunar Exploration:
In the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a historic superpower Moon race, which culminated in 12 men exploring the surface of the Moon. The first era of lunar exploration reached a dramatic conclusion in December of 1972 as Apollo 17 Astronauts Captain Gene Cernan and Dr. Harrison Schmitt became the last men on the Moon.
Moon 2.0, the second era of lunar exploration, will not be a quest for “flags and footprints.” This time we will go to the Moon to stay. The Moon is a stepping stone to the rest of the solar system and a source of solutions to some of the most pressing environmental problems that we face on Earth – energy independence and climate change. Already, governments from around the world recognize the importance of lunar exploration, and national space agencies from the United States, Russia, China, India, Japan, and the nations of Europe plan to send probes to the Moon in the coming decade.
Today, the frontier of private enterprise is the halo of communications satellites in geostationary orbit 24,000 miles above our planet. The Google Lunar X PRIZE now challenges private enterprise to reach 10 times beyond its present limits to participate in this great exploration adventure.
About the Prize Purse:
- The $30 million prize purse is segmented into a $20 million Grand Prize, a $5 million Second Prize and $5 million in bonus prizes. To win the Grand Prize, a team must successfully soft land a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon, rove on the lunar surface for a minimum of 500 meters, and transmit a specific set of video, images and data back to the Earth. The Grand Prize is $20 million until December 31st 2012; thereafter it will drop to $15 million until December 31st 2014 at which point the competition will be terminated unless extended by Google and the X PRIZE Foundation. To win the Second Prize, a team must land their spacecraft on the Moon, rove and transmit data back to Earth. Second place will be available until December 31st 2014 at which point the competition will be terminated unless extended by Google and the X PRIZE Foundation.
- Bonus prizes will be won by successfully completing additional mission tasks such as roving longer distances (> 5,000 meters), imaging man made artifacts (e.g. Apollo hardware), discovering water ice, and/or surviving through a frigid lunar night (approximately 14.5 Earth days). The competing lunar spacecraft will be equipped with high-definition video and still cameras, and will send images and data to Earth, which the public will be able to view on the Google Lunar X PRIZE website.
Source- Press release
Upgrading to Windows Live Hotmail can get U free ASUS Laptops!!!
No less than 100 laptops to be given away for free. Enter the sweepstakes today!
Microsoft and Asus have joined hands to offer you a chance to win Asus laptops pre-loaded with Windows Vista Ultimate. All you have to do is upgrade your email account from hotmail.com, msn.com or live.com to Windows Live Hotmail. No kidding!
So, what’s in store if you’re the lucky one? 100 exciting new ASUS laptops including the black ASUS Lamborghini VX2, Ultra-fashionable Pink Leather ASUS S6Fm and U3S Fashion Notebook.
Procedure:
A random drawing will be held on or about September 14, 2007 from all eligible Sweepstakes entries received to award Sweepstakes prizes. The random drawing will be held under the supervision of Promotion Activators, Inc., an independent judging organization, whose decisions are final on matters relating to this Sweepstakes.
The 100 lucky winners from the sweepstakes can choose any one laptop from the above mentioned models. The approximate retail prices for the ASUS Lamborghini VX2, S6Fm & U3S notebooks are $3,058, $2,259 and $1,799 respectively.
To enter the sweepstakes, go here.
source- http://www.laptoplogic.com
