Canada, Windows and Free Coffee
on 12.20.05, 08:03pm in windows • digg this • comments (1)
[Microsoft Canada] Validating your copy of Windows not only keeps your business in good hands, it can put your hands around a great cup of coffee by using your $5 Tim Hortons Gift Certificate. Validate now, and let us treat you to a coffee on us.
I’m not sure why, but this ‘promotion’ to get Canadians to validate their copy of Windows just struck me as wierd.
Jason Silver (December 21, 2005 @ 7:57 am)
Tim Horton’s to Canadians is like Starbucks to Americans. We love this place! It’s part of our DNA, it’s … it’s … the perfect meld of hockey and coffee (Tim Horton was a hockey player).
I can see it sounding weird to an American, but to me, well– when I read it I sat up and wondered if there were any old copies of Windows kickin’ around that I could reinstall and validate!!
I think I’ll go get a coffee right now, in fact. Yumm.
~Jason
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