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Southwest Airlines & Windows 7 Make the Airport a One-Stop Shop for Holiday Travel

If you’re traveling on Southwest Airlines this holiday season, you’re sure to be put on the “Nice List.” Southwest and Windows have partnered to make your holiday travel experience jollier with Holiday Photos on the Fly.

Beginning Dec. 2, Southwest and Windows will offer free holiday photos to customers at 26 airports nationwide. Customers can stop by one of Santa’s workshops set up in select Southwest Airlines airports and have their photo taken with Santa or a holiday-themed backdrop. Once a photo is taken, a Windows 7 Elf will guide customers through an online experience to learn how to edit, share and store their photos with ease, thanks to Windows Live and Windows 7. Families will be able to print a copy of their photo at the airport, or visit http://www.freeholidayphotos.com to retrieve and share their photos online.

If you’re lucky enough to be in New York City this week, you can drop by Bryant Park and get your picture taken, experience Windows Live, play with Kinect and check out the hottest new PCs and Windows Phones – some of which aren’t even available in stores. And the gift giving doesn’t stop there. Southwest Airlines and Windows 7 are giving customers the chance to win great prizes daily. Customers can learn more about their holiday photos and how to enter the Holiday Sweepstakes at http://www.freeholidayphotos.com. Visitors may enter the sweepstakes once every day and winners will be selected daily.

Holiday Photos on the Fly will be available in the following cities: Albuquerque, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, El Paso, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Nashville, New Orleans, Oakland, Ontario, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, San Antonio, St. Louis, Seattle and Tampa.

Southwest Airlines and Windows 7 look forward to celebrating the holiday with customers and providing them with their holiday photo. It’s the companies’ little way of saying “thanks,” and happy holidays.

Happy holidays!!

Play Xbox & get 400 Microsoft Points FREE

Xbox has a great deal to help you you to kick off the holiday season. Just spend 1600 Microsoft Points on selected offerings from Microsoft Game Studios (see the list below) between November 16 – November 23 and receive 400 Microsoft Points–FREE!

For more information, See official rules

Offer Details

To qualify for this special offer, you must first register by downloading the Microsoft Game Studios Offer gamerpic, and then purchase the eligible Arcade games, game add-on, or avatar accessories from Xbox LIVE Marketplace using your Xbox LIVE account before November 23.

Gamertag Registration

To take advantage of this great deal, you must download the free Microsoft Game Studios Gamer Picture. You can queue this gamer pic up for download to your console right here:

1. Go to Xbox LIVE Event Registrations http://marketplace.xbox.com/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802475207f5/
2. Select Microsoft Game Studios Offer from the list and select Download to Xbox 360
3. Select Confirm
4. You’ll see a Congratulations! This item has been added to your download queue message.

You can also access the free gamer pic via the banner ads running on Xbox LIVE, or in the Gamer Picture section of the Xbox LIVE dashboard.

Download new adventures for favorites like Halo Wars.

You must register for the offer using the same Xbox LIVE gamertag that you will use for your purchase. This promotion starts at 01:01 P.M. (GMT +8) on November 16 and ends at 12:59 P.M. (GMT+8) on November 23, 2010.

 

Eligible Arcade Games	Eligible Game Add-ons	Eligible Avatar Items
Splosion Man South Park UNO Rush Perfect Dark Snoopy Flying Ace Defense Grid Magic the Gathering Banjo Kazooie Banjo Tooie Ikaruga Fable II Pub Games Braid A Kingdom for Keflings Rez HD The Maw Scrap Metal Alien Breed Episode 1 Alien Breed Episode 2 The Dishwasher Dead Samurai Duke Nukem 3D N+	Forza Motorsport 3 Mass Effect Fable II Halo 3 Halo Wars Gears of War 2 Alan Wake LIPS Crackdown Crackdown 2 Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Scene It	Halo Reach Halo 3: ODST Halo 3 Gears of War 2 Gears of War 3 Crackdown 2 Fable II Fable III Perfect Dark Toy Soldiers

After registering and spending 1600 Microsoft Points on eligible downloads during the promotional period, the free Points will be either be deposited automatically into your Xbox LIVE account or sent to your e-mail via a token. Please allow four weeks for delivery, on or around December 20, 2010.

Windows Phone 7: LG Owners to Get Free Access to Popular Windows Phone 7 apps

LG Electronics (LG) and Microsoft collaborate on developer program for a new mobile platform. LG and Microsoft announced that they are teaming up to provide customers with a free selection of quality applications for LG customers with Windows Phone 7 handsets. LG and Microsoft will subsidize a revolving portfolio of hand-picked applications, providing free access to quality applications that take advantage of the unique features and design of Windows Phone 7.

LG and Microsoft will offer Windows Phone 7 applications across popular categories — including social connectivity, gaming and helpful utilities — ensuring that customers have access to the applications they value most. Ten free applications with a value of more than $30 USD will be given away every 60 days. LG’s Windows Phone 7 customers can download these applications for free (for a period of 60 days) via LG Application Store, which will be accessible directly from LG Windows Phone 7 models.

Selected Windows Phone application developers will be provided with exclusive marketing opportunities and resources to promote their applications with LG. Developers of selected applications will benefit from promotional support through LG’s marketing presence and Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace. LG will promote the new applications through in-store sales events and on the LG Mobile Global Facebook page (http://on.fb.me/bltMvp), creating a larger market for developers and bringing them closer to their audiences.

What’s more, LG will also be offering its Windows Phone 7 customers free access to even more applications developed directly by the company. These applications will also be available from the LG Application Store and will span social networking services, such as Type n Walk and Voice SNS, as well as practical tools like Subway AR.

BTW, LG and Microsoft’s developer program will kick off in November. More information can be found at http://www.facebook.com/LGMobileHQ.

MS Learning Initiative: Looking for Microsoft Training & Certification deals ?

As part of Microsoft Learning’s Career Initiative, which helps customers and students to get trained and certified on Microsoft technologies, Microsoft Learning re-launched Second Shot on January 13.

Here’s Tjeerd Veninga describing the program: 

We believe Microsoft Certification can boost your career and we want you to be successful when you take an exam. By adding Second Shot to our Career Initiative, you can now register for a free retake (should you need it), and take the exam with less anxiety and fear of not passing the exam. Second Shot is available for IT Pros, Developers and students; you can use this special offer to pass exams that are directly related to the top IT jobs available in the industry today.

Job roles, learning paths and clear guidance on getting skilled for these jobs can be found on the Microsoft Student Career Portal and for professionals, the Microsoft Professional Career Portal.

Students register here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/offers/…

Offer details

• Dates: January 13, 2010 – June 30, 2010.

• Details: You must register, obtain a voucher code, schedule, pay, and sit for both the first and (if necessary) the retake exam before June 30, 2010.

• Applicable exams: This offer applies to any Microsoft Certification exam that has a 072 prefix (student series).

• Eligible regions: This offer is available globally except in India and China.

• Only one Second Shot voucher is issued per purchased exam.

Professionals register here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/offers/…

 

Offer details

• Dates: January 13, 2010 – June 30, 2010.

• Details: You must register, obtain a voucher code, schedule, pay, and take the first and (if necessary) the retake exam before June 30, 2010.

• Applicable exams: This offer applies to all Microsoft Learning IT professional, developer, project management, and Microsoft Dynamics exams, including academic exams.

  • Visit the Learning Catalog and search for your next exam

• Eligible regions: This is a worldwide offer that is available at Prometric test centers only.

• Only one Second Shot voucher is available per purchased exam.

  

“Because of the breadth and depth of products and technologies, an IT Pro or Developer could build an entire career on Microsoft technology.”

Cushing Anderson, Program Vice President for IDC, Consulting, HR, and Learning

Microsoft Learning’s limited time offer – Second shot can save 25% more

Second Shot now offers two incentives to get certified!

Today, Second Shot provides the benefit of a free retake if you fail a Microsoft Certification exam.

From October 15 – December 31, 2008, you will also be rewarded for passing the exam!

If you pass, you can now use the Second Shot offer to enjoy 25% off a different exam!

 

The Offer – 3-easy steps :

1. Register for Second Shot offer and sit for the exam by December 31, 2008!

2. If you fail the exam you will receive a free retake exam that can be utilized until June 30, 2008

3. If you Pass, you will get 25% off a second exam.  You have until February 28, 2009 to utilize the discounted exam.  

 

Note: If you pass the first exam but fail your 25% off second exam, you will not get a free retake on your second exam.

For more details, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/offers/secondshot/default.mspx