Attendees Receive a FREE Acer Tablet PC Today
Just announced by Steven Sinofsky at the PDC09 Day 2 keynote – PDC09 attendees will receive a FREE Acer Aspire 1420P Convertible Tablet PC – Microsoft PDC Edition!
Attendees can pick up their tablet PC at the registration area starting at 12:30pm. Every eligible attendee will receive a PC (we’ve got plenty) - no need to stand in line after the keynote and miss the great sessions today.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
Who is eligible to receive the Acer notebook?
This personal use giveaway is for full-conference attendees who are onsite at PDC. It is not available to Microsoft attendees, members of the media, government employees, staff, speakers, crew, volunteers, day pass attendees, guests, or Workshop-only attendees.
When will eligible attendees receive the Acer notebook?
Eligible attendees may pick up their Acer notebooks at PDC Materials Distribution as follows:
- Wed, November 18 12:30pm – 9:00pm
- Thurs, November 19 7:30am – 4:00pm
13 Comments
Jan said
Nov 18 2009
What do you mean by, eligible? I attended PDC09 yesterday under a student pass, does that include me?
Jonathan Allen said
Nov 18 2009
From the FAQ:
> This personal use giveaway is for full-conference attendees who are onsite at PDC. It is not available to Microsoft attendees, members of the media, government employees, staff, speakers, crew, volunteers, day pass attendees, guests, or Workshop-only attendees.
Unfortunately I'm on a press-pass, so that leaves me out.
Ian said
Nov 18 2009
Thanks Microsoft!
Ernie said
Nov 18 2009
Hey--Thanks in advance--now I can really play with touch and tablet stuff!!!! 3 Cheers for Microsoft and Acer!!!!
michael said
Nov 18 2009
why don't microsoft attendees receive one? not to demo win 7 and other MS products to customers on such a beautiful netbook??
what a shame...
markc said
Nov 18 2009
Why no gov? We work in a self supported, non-grant funded
program at a university. Any way ours could be given to the school?
We would love to have our students develop on this combo of hardware.
Eric said
Nov 18 2009
markc: Gift and ethics requirements for governments around the world effectively forbid Microsoft from giving "gifts" to government employees.
joeb said
Nov 18 2009
Eric: why the change from last year? yes, we were here. yes, we received the hard drives, t-shirts, etc. somehow, this year, we are precluded from receiving even a T-Shirt for the conference that we paid the full amount to attend.
I would understand if there were some gov discounts to attending, but there were none. we paid the same amount everyone else did. as markc said, we aren't publicly funded, we just have the stigma of being "government" employees.
markc said
Nov 18 2009
The ethical rules for gifts apply to giving to the employee... so could Microsoft donate them to the school instead?
As Joeb says we had to pay the full conf price, therefore it seems it would be just to provide the same benefit to the school.
Henry said
Nov 19 2009
Still not enough answer for ms employees. İt is really one of the biggest shames on pdc. How can we make demos to customers for a tech that Even we can not use.
Do corp believe that we will pay for it from our budget?
İ think, Very demotivating attitude toward employees....
We will call the attendents for demo if we need:(
H said
Nov 19 2009
Still not enough answer for ms employees
How can we make demos to customers for a tech that Even we can not use.
İ think, Very Very demotivating attitude toward employees....
LA said
Nov 22 2009
Especially when ms exployees have to pay full fare to attend this too.
johns said
Oct 6 2011
those who are eligible will get it there is no matter between them