Microsoft starts hunting laptop winners in Australia

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 09 June 2009 15:40

Opinion and Analysis

Microsoft says the Laptop Hunter campaign “starts in Sydney and Melbourne today and runs until Friday 12 June, with one person winning cash to buy a new Windows Laptop each day in each centre.”

It further explains that: “Brisbane’s competition will run next week from Tuesday 16 June to Friday 20 June, with one person winning cash to buy a new Windows Laptop each day.

“Clues on how to find the ‘Laptop Hunter’ will be broadcast during the Nova breakfast program at around 8.30am each morning of the campaign. Clues will also be distributed via Windows Instant Messenger, Twitter and email,” with Nova being an Australian commercial FM radio network.

Microsoft concludes by saying that its “‘Laptop Hunter’ partnership with Nova is part of a wider communication initiative to share with Australian consumers the excellent value and performance of Windows PCs.”

No doubt Mac owners and Linux users would scoff at such a suggestion from Microsoft, but they might nevertheless want to try and find Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter so as to score a free computer to load Linux onto, or perhaps a version of the Hack OS X operating system.

Microsoft will probably make some nice commercials about Australian “laptop hunters” who weren’t cool enough to buy Macs either but for the lack of $300, where they could have had a computer that runs Mac OS X, Linux and Windows XP, Vista and 7 operating systems, whether natively, using virtualisation or both – at least for Windows and Linux.

To try your hand at laptop hunting in the $1300 price bracket, these Nova radio sites in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have more details you’ll need to find the Laptop Hunter. Good luck!