Microsoft giving away two MacBook Pros in exchange for shilling Office for Mac on Twitter

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Microsoft giving away two MacBook Pros in exchange for shilling Office for Mac on TwitterOffice for Mac isn’t exactly a software suite most Apple fans pick up unless they absolutely have to, but if you don’t mind compromising your integrity a little bit, you can pimp Office on Twitter a little bit and automatically enter yourself into a drawing to win one of two 2.53GHz, 15-inch MacBook Pros.

All you need to do is either follow officeformac on Twitter, or retweet @officeformac while including the #officeformac hashtag. With a little bit of luck, you’ll win one of the garishly repainted, Office-branded MacBook Pros.

Unfortunately, it’s only open to residents of the US or Canada, which means Microsoft is missing a golden opportunity to bribe at least this Germany-based Apple blogger into saying some good things about their products. If you’re interested, you better get moving: the give-away ends on Thursday.

[via TUAW]

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • ipweb

    It’s so stupid that this is only rolled out in US, because there’s a huge customer base in Europe, and all these American companies are hugely missing out on this. Although at the moment, we’re missing out on the change to win a killer blue laptop.

  • Charlie

    Slap a skin over top (which i do anyways) and you’re golden.

    Hey, following them for 2 days to get a chance at a free computer is worth it.

  • Cory Stump

    Who would want that ugly thing? One reason I buy Apple products is because they normally look nice, in addition to quality. This doesn’t look so nice.

  • Peter

    I’ve always liked the idea of a Macintosh based group deep in the heart of Microsoft. Mustn’t be too easy to be them. Do them a solid and follow them none the less.

  • http://ihbs.co.uk Ben

    those have to be among the ugliest laptops ive ever seen. and a bit of shame to have microsoft slapped on your macbook!

  • http://www.howiesweb.com Howie Isaacks

    Can’t they just put a REMOVABLE label on the thing? This looks like crap! This is proof yet again that Microsoft has no taste.

  • Robin

    Those are soooo ugly. I would be embarrassed to have it out in public.

  • Robin

    Of course I wonder if they did that on purpose as a slap in the face of Apple.

  • Knightlie

    Are these the same “too expensive” laptops that Microsoft pilloried in their failed ad campaign? The “shoppers” in those were apparently “not cool enough” to own a Mac – they are now way *too* cool to own a blue vandalised Mac.

  • Joe-bin

    Haven’t you peeps ever been taught to never judge a MacBook by it’s cover?It’s what’s inside that counts. Besides, can you imagine what an ice-breaker it is? Stranger at Starbucks says, “What is that butt ugly thing?” Ok, well if I win I’ll buy a cover. BTW, finally started using iWork and work life is so much more pleasing.

  • Patrick

    I actually like MS Office on my Mac…….it works great and since I’m stuck using MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) at work all day it makes it easier to deal with stuff at home.