It’s awkward.

I’m in need of some genuine license keys for a famous software, Internet Download Manager, version 5.18.

I’d hold a license exchange for 10 licenses of IDM.

Rules are simple.

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a/ Prove your IDM license is genuine.

b/ Promise I will be the only user of the license.

c/ The license must work with the latest version of IDM, 5.18 according to its official website.

d/ For each license you give me, I’d send you a full retail license for Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, of course genuine and for you only.

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I only need 10 licenses, so this exchange will be automatically ended when I got 10 licenses.

4 / 10   licenses exchanged already

Thank you for helping me.

Best wishes!

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So is there any support coupled with this giveaway?

Sorry to tell…there is none, but let me explain.

Foremost, please be aware that this is not an official Microsoft giveaway.

The licenses sent from here are promotion type, whose main purpose is for you to evaluate the OS to take the time to make the decision to buy it in future. It’s a tradition of Microsoft and most other corporations that they rarely provide support to promotion kits.

If you want the support from Microsoft, I’m afraid you’ll need to purchase retail copies at local software store to get that.

The bottom line is, you got the good for free, so you’d have to take care of it on your own.

Are there download links for Windows 7 disc?

Microsoft had never publicly provided any download links for Windows 7 disc, although leaks existed.

This site is not about download links to software, so you’d have to find those links yourselves or turn to other ways, for which I truly cannot help. Please understand me.

What does promotion license mean?

The license sent from here are promotion type, whose main purpose is for you to evaluate the OS to take the time to make the decision to buy it in future, although how much time you’ll need for evaluation depends on your specific planning.

Will these promotion licenses expire someday?

Unless you abuse it, it will not expire. Also, there is no time-bomb or anything of that kind coupled.

You can use it until you decide to replace it with a retail license, which is the original purpose of promotion license.

Words to some people

Well, it’d been good all the way down the giveaway, but at the end of it, hundreds of applicants rushed here. We all knew what had happened.

To be frank, I started this giveaway to thank my readers, not to attract more readers.

You should be aware that I didn’t toss any ad on Web. If all I want is visitor, I’d simply make this giveaway a routine one with one or two licenses to gift each time and heavily advertise it to get ever more visitors interested in that.

Also there is a fact that I don’t like professional freebie diggers. These people always try to sweep every free goodie there ever exists. That being said, I know among the winners of this giveaway, lots are this kind.

Even so, I still kept my words, purely in hopes of spreading some joy during holidays no matter who they are or how they got notified about this info.

Nevertheless, in my anticipation, there are certain basic rules for website free giveaways everyone knows well, like “don’t expect extra service” etc. Maybe sound harsh? But think about the fact the owner managed to get these licenses ready and users just came leaving their comments so some of them became winners. Were I a winner here, I won’t expect any more. A product key is enough. I believe many people would agree with me.

If there exists any ambiguity around this giveaway, my apologies here. I should have put them down in rules although I believe everyone familiar with my giveaways should know it already.

Large scale giveaways are always welcome while costly. I’m happy to see lots of people happy with their winning, but it’s hard to keep it up, especially considering problems caused by freebie diggers. So far from my next giveaway, I’d take some leisure time to think up a better idea under which I can truly touch hearts of true readers of this tiny blog.

Last but not the least, for people living in this world every day, there might always be something coming up not in your way, provoking your certain anger or dismay, but those things could never abrupt our happiness along the way.

I’m so happy here that I can help all those in need of certain helps. I’m also happy most people that won or not all express ultimate understanding and gorgeous greetings to all of us.

Thank you guys! Have a nice day!

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All the prizes are already mailed to respective winners. Please check your mail inbox, or spam sometimes, for delivery.

If any listed winner still hasn’t received your gift in a week, please contact me for re-delivery.

All the final winners’ email addresses are listed here with three letters replaced by dash “-“ to better protect your privacy. 

Ladies and gentlemen, the list…

Winners of Windows 7 Ultimate

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Winners of Windows 7 Professional

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Winners of Kaspersky Internet Security 2010

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Winners are welcome to leave your feedbacks here.

http://uneit.com/2010/01/01/windows-7-giveaway-feedback/

Sorry for those who didn’t win. You’re welcome to try your karma next time.

 

Important Notice:

Promotion licenses rolled out in this giveaway are only licensed for you to use it at home on only one computer. Not for business, not for resale, you’re purely licensed to use this license for evaluation of the new operating system.

Please use this product under the rules of promotion licenses, for evaluation only. The host of this giveaway won’t take any responsibility for any consequence from your use, misuse, or abuse.

All rights reserved.

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People who are lucky enough to have won a genuine promotion license for Windows 7 are advised to leave some comments here, mostly about your experience with the installation, activation, feel, or anything you’d like to share.

Thank you.

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Thank you for your warm support for my blog. I’ve got some words to share with you guys.

Having maintained this blog site since 2008, I’ve had high and lows.

Honestly, the initial intention was to make profit out of this site by writing paid reviews or posting ads, but it doesn’t take long before I realized maintaining a blog purely for making money is beyond my tolerance. As I don’t like that kind of websites, I can’t allow myself to make another one.

For anything, you have to pay your price for your decision.

In such a world, on the Web, it’s not easy to maintain a website purely out of interest with no income generated, but by doing so it’ll be much easier to be genuinely independent. It’s freedom that counts, and ads-free is what I always want.

Recently, I’ve had a wide giveaway of promotion licenses for Windows 7, which is a pick-up activity from last year’s Vista giveaway. Originally, I didn’t anticipate so many applicants will be here, but it’s great to see people having huge anticipation towards Windows 7.

I don’t need “fake” readers, just like you don’t need “fake” giveaways.

You are not required to comment in good words of me, or subscribe to my website to gain a chance to win prizes. Everybody will have a fair opportunity although those in reasonable need would be favored a little bit. So don’t rush. By 8 pm on Jan 1st, 2010 PST, all comments present your wish in joining the giveaways, after which time no comment would be taken. Take your time.

I’ll need some more days to analyze the applicants, including their IPs. Those “professional” applicants, by which I mean those trying to apply for all the free stuff everywhere, will be excluded in selection, to my best tell.

To cope with the sudden surge of applicants, I’d arrange a special rollout for the final day of this giveaway activity. Info about Prize winners will be published on my blog soon after I made the selection. I’m looking at Jan 2 to initially roll out genuine licenses to those in most need, and from then on, for each day I’ll send dozens of licenses to prize winners. My expectation for the formal end for license delivery aims at around Jan 8th. If you still haven’t got your licenses by then and your info is listed, please contact me for re-delivery.

We had a deal for winners about obligation to share your experience about this giveaway, right?

Please leave them at http://uneit.com/2010/01/01/windows-7-giveaway-feedback/ 

 Thanks.

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2010 came, friends.

Happy New Year, everybody!

May you have your happiness in your own way!

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By 8 pm PST, Jan 1, 2010, the Windows 7 Giveaway is ended as planned.

The final winning list will be posted as soon as possible.

For info on winners for the final day, please refer to http://uneit.com/2010/01/01/winning-list-for-final-day-of-windows-7-giveaway/

 

Congratulations!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Nowadays, about all computer owners would deploy an anti-virus suite for protection against numerous threads from around the Web. There are various choices available on market, all roughly growing bigger as version number piling up.

Having an anti-virus suite is never more needed for now, but the it’s seriously slowing down the speed of the OS it runs upon.

Take my experience as example.

My desktop is an Intel Core 2 Quad powered, Q6600 for sure, workstation with 8 GB Memory and two HDDs, one 1TB, one 640GB. Very fast actually with no anti-virus software functioning, but a lot laggy when installed with an anti-virus.

And the same problem for my laptops, just more obvious.

I guess you might be experiencing the very same.

I chose Norton Internet Security for the light footprint it has and the more responsive performance it provides, but still it is lagging my system, the shiny brand new Windows 7 Ultimate.

With Norton file antivirus checking disabled, Windows 7 just powered up to fully function within less than 30 seconds. When Norton file checking is turned on, I’ll have to wait 15 more seconds at least.

Having tested with another popular anti-virus, Kaspersky Internet Security, I’d have to wait even more time, more than 20 seconds at least.

Even with Microsoft’s newly released free antivirus Security Essentials, it’ll still add 10 seconds to the startup of Windows 7.

I’ve heard a lot of positive reviews about the new Windows, and some complaints that Windows 7 is still somewhat slow. After reviewing their computer, I found that not only too many program installed as automatic starting up with Windows, there are also slow antivirus that is dragging the speed of OS.

With all these programs’ automatic startup unchecked, the speed of Windows 7 returned to normal, within 30 seconds since pressing the power button.

I’d say Microsoft had made one good OS, which will be testified and proved in the long days to come. I can foresee the days people refusing to replace their Windows 7 with say Windows 9 etc. However, for the industry today, it’s not making a good OS that is enough.

The world of Windows consists not only Microsoft, they need all the software vendors’ and even hardware vendors’ adequate support. Whoever falls short of making a good enough application or driver would result in serious damage, which certain blunt end users would blame all on Microsoft, poor boy.

Well, don’t blame every fault on Microsoft. They had been doing great.

Using antivirus is necessary for now as we know, we’d better be clear about the fact it will make our Windows a bit more laggy.

For now, SSD as HDD is the only perfect solution. SSD has the numerous benefits that antivirus is desiring for. Before that price tag on it was significantly lowered, let’s prepare ourselves to endure the laggy Windows thanks to these antivirus, or like me, use no antivirus sometimes, or purchase a Mac, but viruses writers are shifting attentions on that platform…

Guys, reason it before you shout out.

On Monday, Nov 17th, Microsoft released its public beta test for their next Office suites, Microsoft Office 2010. The public beta, which is Beta 2 actually internally, will be first made available to MSDN/TechNet subscribers, and then to the wide public through the newly designed Office beta website.

16 products in exe extensions, available in both x86 and x64 type, had been rolled out this morning, an amazing step for Microsoft.

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This time, Microsoft had provided beta MAK, MultipleActivation Key, to facilitate the implementation of the new volume license scheme for Office beginning 2010, which first appeared on Windows Vista three years ago.


Continue reading Here Comes Official Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

Randomly I roamed around the Web, discovering interest things, and certainly I was not disappointed today as I found the evidence for Office 2010’s public beta release.

Today, we published three new courses for developers: , Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, and Windows Server 2008 R2. As you may know, Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM shipped in October, and both Office and SharePoint 2010 hit Beta 2 this month.

This is the latest post on Channel 9 learning on MSDN.

We knew the Beta 2 is the pending public beta for a long time, and early birds even had it installed thanks to the ultimate Russian info site, W*T.

Still, this is a near official announcement.

Guys, it’s pleasure to be a software tester, and it’s grand pleasure to be Microsoft software tester.

Up till now, my testdrive of Office 2010 is quite impressive. Speed is much improved and the efficiency is greatly boosted.

We’re back to the good ole days when fast OS was coupled with efficient Office, but this time we’re get much better solutions.