Microsoft announced on Thursday U.S. students will rom next week get one of the best deals I've ever heard in life: buy a computer and take an Xbox 360 to your house.
According to the company, the offer starts in earnest in May 22 (Sunday), with duration "for as long as our stock." Students who purchase any computer running Windows 7 as long as costing at least $ 700 will be entitled to a brand new Xbox 360 with 4 GB of storage.
Best Buy, a major American electronics store, is a partner of Microsoft in this story, without mention on the Microsoft Store or the virtual stores of HP and Dell. Those who prefer to purchase over the Internet will have to necessarily use an email ending in. Edu, with respect to educational institutions there.
The poor devils without email. Edu remain free to go to the store, choose the computer - probably a notebook, which is currently recommended for most students - and then show the documentation that proves the student enrollment in any school or college.
The intent of Microsoft is to get more productivity, sociability and entertainment for students. The computer responds to productivity, while the remaining items are the responsibility of the Xbox. Even made a video for the launch of this offer.
Unfortunately, the bargain is only for the United States. Microsoft says that soon, the same mechanism of promotion is used in Canada and France. Brazil? Pfff, leave quietly.
According to the company, the offer starts in earnest in May 22 (Sunday), with duration "for as long as our stock." Students who purchase any computer running Windows 7 as long as costing at least $ 700 will be entitled to a brand new Xbox 360 with 4 GB of storage.
Best Buy, a major American electronics store, is a partner of Microsoft in this story, without mention on the Microsoft Store or the virtual stores of HP and Dell. Those who prefer to purchase over the Internet will have to necessarily use an email ending in. Edu, with respect to educational institutions there.
The poor devils without email. Edu remain free to go to the store, choose the computer - probably a notebook, which is currently recommended for most students - and then show the documentation that proves the student enrollment in any school or college.
The intent of Microsoft is to get more productivity, sociability and entertainment for students. The computer responds to productivity, while the remaining items are the responsibility of the Xbox. Even made a video for the launch of this offer.
Unfortunately, the bargain is only for the United States. Microsoft says that soon, the same mechanism of promotion is used in Canada and France. Brazil? Pfff, leave quietly.
