Microsoft: buy Windows 7, get a free portable 500GB HDD

While browsing around on Microsoft.com we stumbled on a deal posted on the Microsoft Store. If you buy a copy of Windows 7 Professional Upgrade, which costs $200, Microsoft will throw in a portable black Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB hard drive. For those interested, the dimensions are 3.15 x 5.12 x 0.49 inches (80.01 x 130.04 x 12.44 mm), the weight is 0.35 pounds (158.75 g), and the transfer rate goes up to 480Mbps.

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Hmmm free hard drive huh sounds like a good way to bring in new customers alot of people still have less space on there computers than this 500GB HD.

500GB? That's quite a deal

the question is it 7200 rpm?

Oh great news, I was planning to buy Windows 7 this weekend Free portable HDD for the win!

how many people need Professional? join the domain at your house i suppose? lol

This is good deal. But what about those people who were one of those people ppl who tried it first. I am die hard fan of window and upgraded my OS from Vista to windows 7 ultimate, as soon as it came to market. But with this i don't know how should i feel. As a consolation i can just think that i got almost one year extra to use it compare to people who are going to buy now.

These drives come with 2 oompaloompa's spinning your 500gb platter at a whopping 5rpm.

Slovenia is in EU and we can`t buy Windows 7 Family Pack. Why are we left behind?

Good way to get people to buy it. For me a 500Gb is nothing fancy. But its almost enough reason to get me to buy it... Then again I like XP more than a free 500BG HD. Ill stick with what I have

You can either move to another country or just wait some more.
The free 500GB is a good move.

What about the free hard drive in the EU? Microsoft have had a good idea but think of how many people have already bought windows 7! Wish they had done this at release as I would have gone for that!

Already got Win7 Might have to talk someone into buying it and ask kindly for the HDD

I thinks a professional is about 50 bucks more expensive than the Home Premium. So, even if I was a home user, I would spend the extra 50 bucks and get the professional. Come on, 50 dollars for a 500 GB hard disk? Thats awesome.

Microsoft is looking to accelerate the sails of Windows 7 right now, because there are only two years left until Windows 8. And the sooner people buy Windows 7, the sooner they'll jump ship with windows 8. I'll stick to Windows 7 though, unless Windows 8 is something special.

haha...seagate

Nice! First the "$30 Home Premium for students" deal, and now this!

This would be a great deal if it was just for plain old Windows 7, not the Professional version. Non-the-less, there will be a lot of happy upgraders

Nice deal. But I wish the student deals came back.

this would definitely get me to buy windows7 if i didn't already have it.

i think its a great move, people love their portable hard drives...

Crap... I will just spend less than half of it and get a 500gb hdd myself