Microsoft Ends Quiet Giveaway; Was "Free Software in Exchange for Monitoring"
 

*Source: Tech-Ex (http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com...as-free.html)*
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Wow, this was a quiet promotion. Sorry, I would have alerted my readers if I had even heard of it --- but I also would not have signed up for it anyway.

The program is the Windows Feedback Program (http://wfp.microsoft.com/Welcome.aspx). You download and install a monitoring program, and until they ran out of software, you could gotten some freebies. Originally the giveaway was good until 12/31, but they had a spurt of sign-ups with some publicity earlier in the week.

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