Today I received the mail from Microsoft stating that the Testers
are given 60% off on the subscription of Windows Live One Care
Subscription.The mail read as follows-
Thank
you for participating in the Windows Live OneCare (v1.5) Beta! Your
feedback, comments, and bug reports (!) have helped us improve the
service and we are now in the final steps of releasing OneCare to
consumers world-wide on January 30, 2007.
Beta to Close at End of February 2007
We
wanted to give you advance notice that the (v1.5) beta will be coming
to a close at the end of February, and that your OneCare beta service
will expire by March 2007 (or sooner, depending when you installed the
beta). After your service expires, you won’t receive new Virus and
spyware definitions or other OneCare updates. To continue your OneCare
protection, you will have to uninstall OneCare and then reinstall the
released version of the product. We strongly urge you to do so. In
fact, we feel so strongly about it that we’d like to extend this
special introductory offer to make it easier…
Special, Limited-Time Introductory Offer for Beta Users
To
show our appreciation for our beta participants, we are offering you
the full, released version of Windows Live OneCare at a price of $19.95
for one year. This offer is over 60% off the full retail price and
covers up to 3 Windows XP or Windows Vista PCs. The offer will expire
February 12, 2007, so be sure to take advantage of it soon.
To take advantage of this offer:
1) Uninstall Windows Live OneCare beta (by
using the standard Add / Remove Programs Control Panel on your
computer). Be sure to restart your computer when the uninstallation is
complete.
2) When your computer restarts, return to this e-mail and click this link:
Special offer for Beta participants
(You
must use the link in this email in order to be eligible for this
special introductory pricing.Link removed due to security purposes)
Follow the instructions to redeem your offer and install the fully released version of the service.
So Microsoft is really giving benefits to it's beta testers.