Microsoft's Windows: Your PC Mate with Rufus Hound

This month TV funnyman, Rufus Hound has been on a UK tour with a difference.  He has been visiting UK cities as part of Microsoft’s Windows: Your PC Mate national campaign, continuing Microsoft’s ‘I’m a PC’ theme.

Windows 7 Ultimate

Throughout the month, Windows have been giving away PCs to the most deserving cases via Facebook and Twitter. Rufus Hound and the Windows team have been replacing unsuspecting owners out-of-date, old computers with shiny, new laptops from The Collection complete with Windows 7 and Office 2010.

Rufus’ mission has taken him up and down the country where he will play ‘PC cupid’ and ambush PC owners with a free upgrade and tech makeover using the best and most innovative PCs available today in The Collection from Windows – 22 best-in-class of the season PCs running Windows 7 across five categories, to suit the wide-ranging passions and demands of modern living.

After visiting London, Bristol & Manchester earlier this month, along with thw Windows Team, Rufus will be appearing in Birmingham on 22 November & Southampton on 29 November.

For those who know someone too embarrassed to upgrade their PC or who themselves have a PC so old  it’s not worth stealing, then get in contact with Rufus and the Your PC Mate team via the WindowsUK Facebook and Twitter sites #YourPCMate.

Leila Martine, Head of Windows UK, said:

“By tackling the anxieties and apprehensions real people have, we feel that we’re reigniting the excitement people feel for their PC.  Our research shows that for many their PC has become a style statement. Many even felt their PC says more about them than their clothes and makes a bigger fashion statement than a designer handbag or piece of jewellery.”

Comedian Rufus Hound commented:

“When Windows offered me the chance to follow in the footsteps of F9 and a paperclip I jumped at the chance. Half of the people I know have got PCs so rubbish they make Noddy’s Plod look like Inspector Morse. The fact that they want me to hand out a bunch of free super whizzy machines to the great unwashed is the cherry on the cake. But people have got to sign up on the Facebook page otherwise I have no way of knowing they need a shiny new PC. I’m not Santa Claus although, granted, we share a very similar silhouette.”

Win a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate operating system

As part of the Windows: Your PC Mate national campaign, Buzzin Media has teamed up with Microsoft to offer a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.

Free  Competition

Please Note: this competition has now closed

To enter the competition, just answer the following simple question:

Which comedian is helping Microsoft with the Windows: Your PC Mate national campaign?

Submit your entries to comps@buzzinmedia.co.uk with the subject line: ‘Windows 7’ (other subject lines will not be entered) with your full name, address & contact number.

This Buzzin Media Competition ends on 18th December, 2011.

The editor will randomly choose one winner from the correct answers. The editor’s choice is final.

Now MoneySupermarket.com want to know where people are spending the money they have saved and have launched a free to enter competition challenging customers to make a short video showing how they spent the savings they have made by using the website.

As an example this is how one customer used the money that she had saved to buy her dog Benson a Batman outfit!

You can see more video entries and register to take part at ‘Let’s Have The Savings‘ here. The funniest and most viewed video will win the cash prize of £500.

So if you think you can come up with an amusing video check out the site now for full details and register your chance to win the cash!