Comments on: Install Vista, get free Wi-Fi

Through T-Mobile and The Cloud, Microsoft offers three free months of access to early adopters of its newly released OS.

[westrajc]

Office/Outlook 2007 Unsupported by T-Mobile

"FREE" WiFi access is great, but not much of a catalyst for early adopters of Vista. Those who go after "FREE" deals will likely not be buying the new HW prebundled with Vista and the tech-savy are both already online and taking a wait-and-see approach to Microsoft's latest OS.

Instead of trying to leverage/mimic the UGLY "FREE" with purchase... model exploited by the cell phone carriers, Microsoft would be better served getting them all to support Outlook 2007's SMS messaging features.

SMS from the desktop has the potential for REAL ROI benefits and would be a valid reason for many to upgrade to Outlook 2007. Unfortunately, although Office 2007 was available to developers for more than a year prior to launch, T-Mobile and other cell providers still don't have support in place for Outlook 2007's SMS features.

[Ian Kirkland]

WOW! (to steal a word

WOW! MS Windose has only been available since Tuesday and M$
already feels they have to sweeten the deal!

Pitiful!

[timber2005]

WOW

Your intelligence of Business is WOW!

I'm sure a massive agreement like that ONLY took two whole days... one to agree on and one to get C|Net to post about it.

Troll on Ian. Continue Damming those who do, and also Dam those who don't.

[dfichtner]

It amazes me MS has to work so hard...

I amazes me that MS has to work so hard to get people to buy Vista. It must really be a flop thusfar??