The Bill Day giveaway (part 4) - Windows Vista Ultimate

Hey, if Bill can give away tens of billions of dollars, the least we can do to celebrate his last day is to give away some Microsoft-powered stuff, right? Next up: a full, non-upgrade copy of Windows Vista Ultimate.

• Leave a comment below. Tell us about your favorite Microsoft-powered product. Or your favorite Apple product, too, since Bill totally bailed those guys out back in '97.
  
• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
• If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.
  
• Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
  
• Winner will be chosen randomly. That winner will get a brand new full, non-upgrade copy of Windows Vista Ultimate. Approximate value is $200.
  
• Entries can be submitted until Sunday, June 29th, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

[thedesolate1 @ Jun 27th 2008 7:05PM]

Spare Me.

[Kyle @ Jun 27th 2008 6:17PM]

Windows XP is the operating system I have used the longest. Good stuff!

[Chris Anderson @ Jun 27th 2008 6:21PM]

Yaay Windows!

[helloUser @ Jun 27th 2008 6:26PM]

I dont think anyone is going to want Vista as a prize. I'd call that more of a punishment.

[lintsniffer @ Jun 27th 2008 6:30PM]

DOS had the best games.

[David @ Jun 27th 2008 6:36PM]

Love my Apple iPhone...cant wait for the new one... all my treo and blackberry friends ask me to look stuff up on the internet!

david
florida

[Greg Lucas @ Jun 27th 2008 6:41PM]

xbox 360 even though it red lighted on me

[[e-mail] @ Jun 27th 2008 6:45PM]

I like MS Vista Ultimate

[Mike @ Jun 27th 2008 6:44PM]

xbox 360

[kiwibob32 @ Jun 27th 2008 6:45PM]

Vista is basically just Microsoft Bob reworked a little and less compatible but it is way prettier...

[Mike @ Jun 27th 2008 6:58PM]

I just started using vista and I have had no problems with it. All good stuff so far.

[Matt @ Jun 27th 2008 7:02PM]

I heard Bill was heading over to Canonical to lead the Ubuntu development...

[roach @ Jun 27th 2008 7:04PM]

@David
Buy iphone every time a new version comes out...wow, thats fan boy crazy! I expect my gadget, like phone, to last a minimum of at least 3 years. Got me thinking...all those millions of ipod sold are probably skewed numbers considering there are fanboys like David, who probably owns every released version of ipods out there...ipods number doesn't seem that impressive. Apple can sell different type of shit and you guys would probably line up to get one. Next year, Apple shit comes with corn..."ooohhh, I gotta get one with corn!"

[Taylor @ Jun 27th 2008 7:08PM]

Pretty sure windows xp is the best operating system microsoft has ever offered, hopefully vista gets there too sometime

[niko @ Jun 27th 2008 7:18PM]

360 for sure.

[Pochi @ Jun 27th 2008 7:19PM]

Two numbers.

9.

5.

Most revolutionary OS ever.

[Ibuprofane @ Jun 27th 2008 7:19PM]

Pick Me!

[poematik14 @ Jun 27th 2008 7:27PM]

XP FTW

[John B @ Jun 27th 2008 7:28PM]

XP has turned out to be pretty good, but I still wish that Windows 2000 was viable for modern gaming. It was the first Windows OS that I really, truly liked. Steady as a rock and only took up 70 MB of RAM after a fresh install. More importantly, it ran any program that I threw at it, including every Windows game that was out at the time.

Now we have XP that takes up about 270 MB after a fresh install and Vista that takes up close to 650 MB. What a f**king disgrace.

[Sandeep Bhattaram @ Jun 27th 2008 7:32PM]

I need to try vista..before I start ripping on it like everyone else :D

[JimBo @ Jun 27th 2008 7:40PM]

Gimme

[Al @ Jun 27th 2008 7:41PM]

I really loved the Extended Basic language that Microsoft created for the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer!

[Stephen Kenney @ Jun 27th 2008 8:23PM]

I'm up for some free stuff

[Kiel @ Jun 27th 2008 7:45PM]

here i am posting

[Jonathan @ Jun 28th 2008 4:37PM]

I need windows Vista ultimate!!!!! this would be more than amazing!

[ben @ Jun 27th 2008 7:50PM]

Windows xp is ftw.

[Tony Kuper @ Jun 27th 2008 11:33PM]

If I were to take over microsoft I would turn it into micro-mac and slowly turn into Apple.

[richbum @ Jun 30th 2008 5:32PM]

I love windows. buying a mac made me realize that... but it was too late. Gimme Vista and I will just have to install it on my macbook air =]

[rreddy @ Jun 27th 2008 8:06PM]

all Windows OS

[USSHoratio @ Jun 27th 2008 8:15PM]

vista

[Eric @ Jun 27th 2008 8:15PM]

Snow Leopard, definitely Going to be Snow Leopard!

[splink007 @ Jun 27th 2008 8:36PM]

microsoft Bob = FTW

[Itao Tsai @ Jun 27th 2008 8:47PM]

Well, I'd have to say : XBOX and ipod touch are my favorite.
Once you "fix" the XBOX a little bit. you could do more fun stuff than its original package.
As to ipod touch, well, it's cool and easy to carry around, go online...
you just don't want to carry a mini laptop , still that is too heavy for me.

[Tom @ Jun 27th 2008 10:20PM]

I've never won anything in my life.

[WAn @ Jun 27th 2008 9:02PM]

I will never let go of XP

[Landon @ Jun 27th 2008 9:02PM]

I'd have to say Windows is my fave. I've been using it my entire life.

[M @ Jun 27th 2008 9:12PM]

I just purchased a system with Vista Home Premium. It's cool so far.

[Nate Rohdy @ Jun 27th 2008 9:48PM]

windows 3.11 with calmira to make it look like windows 95 used to be the coolest thing to me... now i've made the very wise decision to switch to mac

[Azayzel @ Jun 27th 2008 9:49PM]

Hmmm, fav MS product? I think I would have to go with the Media Center portion of MCE or Vista Ultimate. I have a firewire DVD player that holds some 200 DVD's; it's nice the way the system automatically catalogs all the DVD's and pulls down the useful info to a local DB to help in deciding which movie to watch when you're ready.

Bring on Ultimate so I can upgrade from MCE!

[Paul Martorano @ Jun 27th 2008 10:55PM]

Microsoft Outlook is great!

[lyndon @ Jun 28th 2008 7:51PM]

hey why not im felling lucky

[Tom Monroe @ Jun 28th 2008 10:39PM]

I like Vista Ultimate running as a media center PC. Now that the price of hardware has dropped, a decent media machine can be scrapped together for less than $500, that also doubles as a gaming machine. MCE in general is better than TiVO, plus there is no monthly subscription fee, and hardware can be upgraded as needed. With my Vista Ultimate machine, I have Internet Access, gaming, my media center, Office, and anything else I can plug into a PCI slot, Sata port or USB port - unlimited potential. Plus I can use my xBox to access my shows.I hear a lot of people complain about Vista, for the most part, I understand what they say, but it works for me - I haven't had to reboot any of my media centers in several months (at least since I loaded SP1 on it).

[pelo8280 @ Jun 27th 2008 11:10PM]

I haven't really used Vista long enough to actually find any real major problems with it, is was the little things that took me back to XP. Not that it mattered a whole lot, because I usually just use Ubuntu - but I wouldn't mind having a copy of Vista Ultimate lying around... :-)

[NakedOldGuy @ Jun 27th 2008 11:16PM]

Reselling this would be fun! then again, I do need word....

[Mark @ Jun 28th 2008 12:12AM]

Has to be Windows XP - in use the longest so far...

[3TheOne @ Jun 28th 2008 12:56AM]

Nothing is better than Microsoft as an Operating System!...I used Win 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, and now its Vista....I guess Win OS FTW.

[importflip88 @ Jun 28th 2008 12:46AM]

Xbawks

[Derek Wu @ Jun 28th 2008 12:52AM]

I actually LIKE windows vista--it's a really nice upgrade in terms of usability and friendliness. I love the networking improvements! (and I'm "only" using vista basic! haha it came with my computer...)

[akballow @ Jun 28th 2008 1:04AM]

i want somthing i can get...

[Dave @ Jun 28th 2008 1:10AM]

xbox