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 Rufus Hound and the Windows team have been replacing unsuspecting owners out-of-date, old computers with shiny, new laptops from The Collection complete with Windows 7 and Office 2010.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.

To compete with Google & Yahoo, Microsoft have recently launched DeepFish, their own mobile browser which allows users with Windows Mobile phones to use sites that are more like those seen on PCs and laptops.

With more advanced mobile web browsers, offering better rich content viewing, the door for rich content mobile online marketing has been firmly kicked open.

Be sure to consider whether your internet marketing service providers are aware of the possibilities on mobile internet marketing.

Depending which business you are in, your online marketing budget may be best spent promoting your products and services via mobile phones and PDA’s.

The IoD has 52,000 members in the UK, many of them small to medium businesses who will be able to use this service at a reduced rate. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM offer will cost IoD members £35 per user, per month while non-members can subscribe for £45 per user, per month. There is an additional offer of one month’s service free if they sign up before June 2008.

For more information see IoD Hosted IT Services

“As the business environment becomes ever more competitive, our members need the tools and support to attract new customers while retaining their existing ones,” said Andrew Main Wilson, chief operating officer at the IoD.

The service will be hosted by Microsoft partner Rackspace.