Free Office Pro 2007 and Office Groove 2007

[wayliff]

I went to the one in Tampa, FL yesterday...and walked out with three copies of Office 2007.

1. Early in the event, at the system center stand...they have resource kits- those are actually Office copies too. They had plenty to pick up but I did not know it was office when i grabbed mine...I'm sure one can get away with making a couple of trips to the stand.
2. Turn in your "colored" eval first. (I got one)
3. Later turn in the track eval. (I got another)

You get the promo code to download in each of the resource kit booklet.

 

[wayliff]

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo

Originally posted by: MangoTBG
You have to at the very least stay until Lunch. But apparently, from looking at what someone just posted above, not every event serves lunch. From what was said at the Keynote speech, there are 15 LARGE events. It just so happened that Tampa was 1 of 15. They had Starbucks coffee and danishes for a Continental Breakfast and good sandwich meal with chips, an apple, a cookie, and a pickle.

I was at the Tampa one. Did you get something in your bag saying "Windows Vista Ultimate PreRelease?"

This question is for everyone. It came with a cd-key and no where on it does it say it is evaluation software. Is this a full version I can use and get updates etc. from MS?

I dont remember seeing this...i will have to check my stuff again.
I dont know the answer to that though.

 

[TheUltimateNewbie]

Anyone who got a couple want to send me one?

 

[Glavinsolo]

Originally posted by: wayliff

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo

Originally posted by: MangoTBG
You have to at the very least stay until Lunch. But apparently, from looking at what someone just posted above, not every event serves lunch. From what was said at the Keynote speech, there are 15 LARGE events. It just so happened that Tampa was 1 of 15. They had Starbucks coffee and danishes for a Continental Breakfast and good sandwich meal with chips, an apple, a cookie, and a pickle.

I was at the Tampa one. Did you get something in your bag saying "Windows Vista Ultimate PreRelease?"

This question is for everyone. It came with a cd-key and no where on it does it say it is evaluation software. Is this a full version I can use and get updates etc. from MS?

I dont remember seeing this...i will have to check my stuff again.
I dont know the answer to that though.

It was in my freebie bag. I'll load it up later this weekend or something. No where on it does it say its eval. It says Windows Vista Ultimate and it came with a disc and a serial. Maybe they tossed them in a few bags.

Oh and was I the only one laughing while people looked under their seats for a free Zune? That was priceless. Definitely worth the price of a Zune to see thousands of fat IT people stand up and check under their seats. They did it so fast you'd have thought they dropped a cruller on the floor.

 

[spittledip]

I went yesterday and in the bag they give you, you get a little tag thing that you turn in to get the free copy- or rather the free key- for Office. I did not get any vista in there though... I am glad to get that free key for Office!! Already installed it. I hope one can register it more than once though in case of hard rive crash or reformatting or whatever.

edit- as far as food... the only thing worth getting was the bottled water. There were only danishes and soda and some other junk food type stuff. It is free though, so I am not complaining No lunch though

oh yes, this was the Charlotte, NC event.

 

[Glavinsolo]

Originally posted by: spittledip
I went yesterday and in the bag they give you, you get a little tag thing that you turn in to get the free copy- or rather the free key- for Office. I did not get any vista in there though... I am glad to get that free key for Office!! Already installed it. I hope one can register it more than once though in case of hard rive crash or reformatting or whatever.

edit- as far as food... the only thing worth getting was the bottled water. There were only danishes and soda and some other junk food type stuff. It is free though, so I am not complaining No lunch though

oh yes, this was the Charlotte, NC event.

Nice, although at the Tampa one we were given an evaluation form with a sticker on it and when we turned in the eval we were given a T-shirt and a cardboard book with directions to download and install office 2k7

 

[wayliff]

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo

Originally posted by: wayliff

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo

Originally posted by: MangoTBG
You have to at the very least stay until Lunch. But apparently, from looking at what someone just posted above, not every event serves lunch. From what was said at the Keynote speech, there are 15 LARGE events. It just so happened that Tampa was 1 of 15. They had Starbucks coffee and danishes for a Continental Breakfast and good sandwich meal with chips, an apple, a cookie, and a pickle.

I was at the Tampa one. Did you get something in your bag saying "Windows Vista Ultimate PreRelease?"

This question is for everyone. It came with a cd-key and no where on it does it say it is evaluation software. Is this a full version I can use and get updates etc. from MS?

I dont remember seeing this...i will have to check my stuff again.
I dont know the answer to that though.

It was in my freebie bag. I'll load it up later this weekend or something. No where on it does it say its eval. It says Windows Vista Ultimate and it came with a disc and a serial. Maybe they tossed them in a few bags.

Oh and was I the only one laughing while people looked under their seats for a free Zune? That was priceless. Definitely worth the price of a Zune to see thousands of fat IT people stand up and check under their seats. They did it so fast you'd have thought they dropped a cruller on the floor.

ha ha i did not think about the overweight ones when that was happening since i did not have any around me but now that i think of it...it must have been funny...**no insult intended**

 

[Jaxidian]

Originally posted by: Thump553

Originally posted by: Jaxidian
Got mine today in Indy.

Edit: The talks were a waste of time unless you're interested in nothing but show-and-tell and no real technical knowledge transfer. If I could do it all over again I would have only taken a few hours off work instead of the entire day.

Can you confirm that a person will qualify for the frebbies if they only sign up for one seminar (one-half day)? That's what I've done.

That's correct, I was with a few other peeps who only went to the morning seminar and they got their cd keys at the same time I did (at noon). In all reality, all you have to do is register sometime around normalish time and then go away and come back at noon or 5pm and pick up your cd keys. They don't take attendance in any way at the presentations.

 

[Sparke]

Got mine in Cleveland. Thanks a million, op!

 

[MrTeeny]

Hi guys. So...let me get this straight. I don't have to be an IT professional or have any particular credentials to attend. Registration is free. I attend and get my product keys and basically walk away with $650 in free software. Is this legit? Full working versions? Someone tell me it true and I'm there.

 

[nyker96]

cool MS is da best ... maybe not :]

 

[Ktulu]

Originally posted by: MrTeeny
Hi guys. So...let me get this straight. I don't have to be an IT professional or have any particular credentials to attend. Registration is free. I attend and get my product keys and basically walk away with $650 in free software. Is this legit? Full working versions? Someone tell me it true and I'm there.

100% legit and full version. Just read through the thread.

 

[QuixoticOne]

I went to my local event yesterday, it was ok though perhaps not quite as
technical as I'd have liked, but it was one of the smaller "Microsoft Across America"
events not one of the large "Ready For A New Day" events so there was less
diversity of presentations.

Got a blinking LED "Ready for a new day" pen and similarly branded T-shirt, and
the Office 2007 & Groove product key.

No vista evaluation CDs or keys or anything; I'm kicking myself for missing RC2
since that'd have been useful to play with on a few sandbox machines for testing.

I'll probably hold off on installing Office & Groove until I get a chance to backup and update
my main system to Vista though.

Hmm it's a pity they do the office activation / installation
in such a stupid way. The license says that you can use a single install on a single
computer which is fine, but it's stupid that the "install" can't be standalone in its own
partition but probably messes with your system registry etc. etc.

I'll have to dual-boot XP and VISTA for a long time to come so it'd be nice if you
could install Office on E partition, Vista boot on C partition, XP boot on D partition and
then you could use your perfectly legitimate single office install with whichever *OS* you
wanted to boot at the moment on that same computer. As it is you'll have no access
to open your office documents on other boot sessions even though you have the
Office installation accessible on your path which is just silly for a piece of software that
you're fully licensed to use on that computer.

 

[Gibson486]

oops...boston's was today.....i forgot all about it. i would imagine it is in around copley, but i am comfy in my nice warm library studying emag

 

[PC911mickster]

I went to the Cleveland event yesterday and got my key for office which I downloaded. There were two downloads for Office...one is a setup file and the other is a self extracting cab file.
I want to hold onto the files and key until I get new hardware for a sys to throw on this freebie as well as the Vista Bidness from the PowerTogether dittie.
The site said the key is entered when you do the installation How did that and those two files do with the installation...how much of a PITA was it?
Is anybody aware of any time restraints on installing the freebie office2007?
TIA!

 

[QuixoticOne]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
oops...boston's was today.....i forgot all about it. i would imagine it is in around copley, but i am comfy in my nice warm library studying emag

What're you studying about emag? For a class?

 

[QuixoticOne]

Originally posted by: PC911mickster
I went to the Cleveland event yesterday and got my key for office which I downloaded. There were two downloads for Office...one is a setup file and the other is a self extracting cab file.
I want to hold onto the files and key until I get new hardware for a sys to throw on this freebie as well as the Vista Bidness from the PowerTogether dittie.
The site said the key is entered when you do the installation How did that and those two files do with the installation...how much of a PITA was it?
Is anybody aware of any time restraints on installing the freebie office2007?
TIA!

The site that is listed on the card says that the key is permanent and to just ignore
the 60 day trial key you'll get at the site you must use to download the software.
http://www.launchtour2007.com/download

"**The trial key provided on the download page only allows for 60 days of use. Please use the Product Key provided in the kit you received at launch to download the full retail versions of the products.

So though it's an inference, there shouldn't be any time limit in which you have
to install the software, though it's obviously good to download it as soon as possible
since they conceivably could take away the download servers after March 2.

I haven't installed it yet, though the biggest PITA about it for me is that it probably
won't install *only* where I tell it to but will probably spam my C drive and registry
too which makes dual-booting a PITA.

This site shows you exactly what you can expect from the installation process:
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=95&zoneid=8
The real Office 2007 installation guide, part 1...part4

I think the MSLT says that you can only reactivate on 'different' machines once every
90 days, though, so I suppose it's a PITA if you want to upgrade your hardware /
software soon after your first installation. doh!

 

[PC911mickster]

Gr8t stuff QuixoticOne! Especially appreciated that link to the installation guides.
Thanks!

 

[ObiKwan]

I attended the event in Boston yesterday. Basically you have to register, go to the keynote (lots of rah-rah cheerleader stuff, but also some decent demos of what the trio of Vista/O2K7/Exchange 2K7 has to offer), and attend one breakout group. I went to the Exchange 2007 group and saw a relatively in-depth demo of the management features, both via GUI and command line (PowerShell is what they were calling their CLI).

At noon, the line formed to turn in your evals and I was given the O2K7 and Groove CD as well as a bag which included an eval copy of Vista. Not bad for four hours and they offered all the coffee, fresh fruit, bottled water, and Pepsi products you could handle - the boxed lunch was just OK. One of the guys at my table remarked that the giant cookie was 400 calories alone!

 

[Solema]

These events seem to vary by location. I went to the Cleveland one, and there were no breakout groups, at least not for the IT Pro track. Also, we did not receive Vista evals, which is no biggie since I have TechNet anyway. Also, they handed out wristbands for each of the tracks, and each bag of goodies (no discs in them) included a special card that you had to turn in at noon to claim the eval CD with the Office and Groove codes on them.

 

[MoobyTheGoldenCalf]

So if you're going to the all-day one that is from 8:00 to 3:30, they give you the codes at noon? You don't have to stay until 3:30?

 

[Solema]

That's how it worked in Cleveland.

 

[Omniprezent]

I assume it's all the same for the afternoon session as well. A few of us signed up for the noon-5pm session only(due to the fact we can't get away from work for the ealy session).

Just wondering because I haven't seen anyone talk about going to just an afternoon session.

 

[goofy4ever]

Just got back from the NJ event. Here's the recap

1. Got there 6:30am and few people were already waiting in the lobby!
2. Registered at 7am and got the black "goodie" bag containnig brochures, lighted pen, shirt and a HOLOGRAM card. I was told to hold on to the card and submit them at the end of the track to receive a Resource. I was also given two rubber wristbands but didnt matter what you had on, you could move around diff. tracks
3. Ate their typical American-style breakfast (juice, coffee, pastries, bagels, etc.)
4. IT track was the most crowded one (no surprise here)
5 Small Business track was ok; although the dude was running lenovo 7t60p with 3 GB! (he said it was necessary for the sharepoint 2007 demo - running as a server)
6. MS Partners were pretty lame, giving out traditional crap
7. Got tired so around 10:30 AM, I asked one of the ladies at the reg. desk and she exchanged the hologram card with a resource CD

Resource CD contained a CD or DVD with Office and Groove Keys.

Overall not bad, but I was hoping to score a copy of the Vista Ultimate!

PS. Does anyone know if you participated in their RC1 and RC2 beta programs, if you can get any discounts?

 

[coolVariable]

Just got back from the one in Los Angeles.
Got there on time ... there was an endless line.
Turned out - I probably should have gotten there a little later - maybe 8:15 instead of 7:45. The line was much shorter then.

Got a badge and my sticker was placed on the questionnaire for the overall even experience. I was told to turn that in at the end of the day.

DID NOT GET A BAG!!

Keynote was ok.
Decision Maker track had a horrible presenter from MS.
At 12 noon I went to the desk and exchanged my questionnaire for the Resource Kit (Product Keys, CD/DVD of something and download instructions.)

No WinVista
Too bad, people here at give me hope, I might be able to sneak one or get one in the bag.


Maybe they only hand it out to certain tracks?

Could those that did receive WinVista in their bags reply what they registered as?

IT Pro
Developer
Decision Maker
Partner
Retail

Am I missing any?