Giveaway: Office 2007 Home & Student With Free Upgrade To Office 2010

[Closed] Giveaway: Office 2007 Home & Student With Free Upgrade To Office 2010

May 24th, 2010 by Manan

After a no-event for Windows 7 launch, Microsoft India has been quite active on social media for Office 2010’s launch. Microsoft India has been quite generous and will be giving way two Office 2007 licenses via me (India only)

Giveaway Details:

What: Two licenses of Office 2007 Home and Student that can be upgraded to Office 2010 for free.

Why Office 2007: because Office 2010 isn’t available to general public till next month.

Where: One license via this blog and one via my podcast – Microsoft Talk.

How:

via Blog

You can participate for the giveaway via the blog in the following ways:

Leave a comment: feedback about Office 2010 or why I am awesome.
Tweet the following: RT @manan Office 2010 New Features and Giveaway — http://bit.ly/czXncu

via Podcast

Post a question regarding any Office 2010 product feature or Microsoft Office in general here – Studio @ Microsoft Talk

I’ve done quite a few posts on the new features in Office 2010:

As part of the launch, there will be a virtual launch on the 25th and 26th of May. The sessions will be hosted by fellow MVPs and I will be doing one too, you can register for them at meraoffice.com.

The virtual launch will be followed by Community Launch Events. The details are available on office.merawindows.com

UPDATE: Winner for one license was decided and contacted via email. The second winner (for Microsoft Talk) is yet to be announced.

UPDATE #2: Since people don’t trust me and want to know whether I indeed did give away the license. Here are the names of the winners:

Winner for the contest on my blog: @tsuvik
Winner for the contest via podcast (declared on 14th July): Animesh Jain

I hope the Google employees trolling my blog are satisfied.

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I just retweeted it (http://twitter.com/maguay/status/14625974501), but thought I’d leave some feedback about Office 2010 too. First, PowerPoint 2010′s GPU-accelerated animations take PowerPoint to a whole new level (and make me quit envying Keynote ). Then, OneNote and Outlook 2010 definitely benefit from the ribbon, and it’s nice to see Office looking really homogeneous this time around. And it’s fast … I think faster than 2007, but that’s totally unscientific!

And just as with Office 2007, the Home and Student licensing that lets you put it on 3 computers in the same household is the best thing that ever happened to Office. Seriously!
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Dude , you suck. Now gimme my copy of Office.
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Gimme gimme gimme!
http://rajbir.me Rajbir

You’re awesome because I’m awesome.

Here’s the tweet link:

https://twitter.com/Rajbir/status/14628289376

(Hell yeah, I’m participating this time.)
http://www.openenclave.wordpress.com Tarun

As always, i’m participating in the giveaway.. You’re awesome because you did engineering and became a writer
Ashwin S

If you give me the license, I can gift it to someone which will make her (her!) happy.

And yes, you are awesome because you blog all this stuff and yet no pesky ads in your site. You rock. I can haz the license please? ( http://twitter.com/ashwinsid/status/14630781786 )
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You’re awesome because of your MUN capers. So when does the license arrive in the mail?
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Gaurav

Twitted here: http://twitter.com/tuxplorer/status/14674410322. I like this site because you tend to cover slightly “hat-ke” topics. Besides, Manan sounds so much like Satan Just kidding. Office 2010 would be so awesome to win because it irons out most of my issues with 2007. The ribbon is customizable finally. Outlook has this cool feature called Quick Steps that helps repetitive tasks. And Word finally supports OpenType ligatures!!!
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Hi Manan, everyone knows why you are so great. Thank you for everything and specially for this giveaway. I like MS Office 2010 for the new features like Paste Preview, Backstage View, New image editor. All these make my life easier.

I am a subscriber of newletters and RSS Feeds.
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Hello BeingManan!
I would sure like to win one license for Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student edition because of it’s features like improved Ribbon interface from previous 2007 version,new improved Word,Excel and Powerpoint with also new themes,OneNote application and finally the Snapshot tool for taking screenshots that can be modified according to our need.
OR
Your awesome because you are providing us generously two nice MSO 2010 licenses for free to win,which most of us couldn’t afford that easily.

Here’s my Tweet-

http://twitter.com/TechRockz/status/14678014037

Thank you so much for truly awesome and higly utilizable application for giveaway.

Regards.
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You are just absolutely wonderful. It is always a pleasure reading your delightful posts.
PRATIK

The streamlined interface is easy on the eyes and I have to admit

that the best feature that I came across has been the ability to embed video in ppt

presentations along with support for streaming videos from sites like youtube… The editing

features for the videos is very decent from presentation point of view….

Thank you for organizing this giveaway… I think might be lucky this time around…

My Tweet Status:
http://twitter.com/pratikonomics/status/14681510621
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Raghul

dude your the best to follow on twitter

and here is the twitter RT link

http://twitter.com/raghul1989/statuses/14704249354
SilverGoldi

Good Work Manan

Office 2010 is the best one My own experience with office 2010 is it is more reliable ,safer , faster , easy to use & learn , stylish , low resource user & much more better than any other office versions released previously & equivalent tools to the office… so i would like to win it
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Everytime i come to your site I get a feeling you are a girl trapped in a guys body. whats with flowers and all? anyway, i still read it. And you know Microsoft rocks!

So please give me one copy

http://twitter.com/unitechy/status/14746066825
Dhiraj Sinha

Hello Manan,
Cool Giveaway!!Please include me too in the giveaway.
Well the feature that impresses me most is that one can now seamlessly collaborate on a project with one’s coworkers using webapps over SkyDrive or Facebook.Besides,the “paste preview tool”,which lets one assess how a copied content would look like while keeping the source formatting intact or stripped or merged without actually pasting it!!,is also very enticing.The more widespread usage of the ribbon interface now across all components of the office is also a welcome move.
P.S. I have retweeted this giveaway at: http://twitter.com/d4dhiraj/status/14748707150
Ankur Chauhan

hi manan

i dont think this giveaway could be more important to me than anyone as my office 07 is giving me warnings that : ur soft is not genuine. it would off after some days ”

i hope i am the luck winner since i have been following u from beginning and unfortunately have not wone anything

office 2010 is very good and that u have described a full review about it .. so i dont think i would rather go to its details …

finger cross for giveaway \OO/

also tweet this post as :http://bit.ly/92xPqU
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http://twitter.com/rish404/status/14749405895

And why you are awesome? Umm… lemme think.. *darn, people have to lie for a giveaway*…

Ok, I’m short of words. You are so awesome… so awesome…. And before it starts sounding like Gay, gimme a license
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Thanks for the promo!
Following You on twitter @vip2200
twitted the promo @vip2200
I want to use office 2010 due to new feature in Microsoft Office 2010 the Social Connector.I want to write emails while keeping track of my family, friends, and colleagues even when I am on work.

Plz give me one, Thanks!
Linu

Tweet: http://twitter.com/aviator365/status/14775010258

would love to win this as I like to win this contest plus I could use this newer version.
shivam

when are results coming out??
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princeaniket

hii,, nice giveaway..
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subscribed to your news letter as princeaniket@xxxx.com

regarding why are you awesome: i think i will pick your blog best lines; “An Integration of Random Thoughts Over A Gradient Vector”… as you have it and you have express these felling , your name has said you are best.. Manan: deep in thought,

regarding my face to face with MSO:
The most important feature is ” the screen shots” in insert bar option in MSO,PPT,EXCEL which we can directly SNIP, insert and modify(cut and paste) any thing FROM WEB PAGE or desktop,whichever is in background.. the web pages importance is too good,.. and after that use of ” picture tool” ,will come in which we can change brightness and pic style will also change”
this can help in taking “reference,quotes and pic of important things directly” coz, before it we have to save pic,then cut, and then adjust,, this reduces the effort and is pretty fast,,
you can preview how effects will change your image over each effect this is beauty of MS 2010 and this is just one of the master piece of 2010…
princeaniket

hii dear… when will the result come???
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Meena

Ribbon interface is really good

Sharing and collaborating features are awesome.

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