Caption Contest Winners Selected!

By Nate Mook | Published February 2, 2007, 4:19 PM

After scouring through over 800 comments with suggested captions for our contest to win Windows Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 Home and Student, we have selected two winners. If you weren't chosen, worry not, we will have more giveaways shortly!

And the winners are...

Vista Ultimate Winner: Midichlorian_Joe
Bill Gates Caption Contest
Bill Gates (referencing UAC in Vista): "Please enter an administrator password to allow me to continue my speech."

Office 2007 Winner: betavirus1025
Steve Ballmer Caption Contest
Steve Ballmer: "Please, hold your applause until SP2 is released!"

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Congratulations. Good Caption.

But I still like mine(do you?):
Bill : Blind people also love Vista!
(can't see the new UI)
Steve: One embrace one Office 2007!

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The winning captions are not that funny, sorry. I've read better ones.

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Yep, I totally agree with what you have said. I have read something more interesting and meaningful.

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Revised caption for Gates: Ok, u got ur free copies. Now will u leave me alone?

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"Please, hold your applause until SP2 is released!"

OMG! Thats fukin' hilarious! (so true)

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Lucky dudes. I'm sure the prizes will be on eBay very soon :-)

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Why? It's not like Vista or Office are in any shortage.

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Excellent comments. True nature of vista beautifully captioned.

Congrats Guys...

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Lol. Those captions are awesome.

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any honorable mentions?

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lol.. Congratulations guys ^^

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Great contest. Congrats to the winners!

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Congratulations to the winners!!! they are really good captions

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damn!! That could been some good captions too uberfly!!

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They both totally look like American Idol contestants.

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they really do lol.

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Yea congrats to both of u. After awhile I just wanted to read other captions not really caring about the contest anymore lol

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Congrats Guys
Have a great new OS & OFFICE

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congrats! the ballmer one is really good

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No doubt! Excellent captions! Congrats

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I don't get it....

No just kidding! Good captions guys!

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I'm sure there were a lot of other great submissions, what about a list of runner-ups?

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Best laugh of the day — thanks!

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At first I was just really happy that I won Vista Ultimate, but now all I can think is that betavirus1025 is way funnier than I am. Great caption.

And thanks to all of you for all the captions I got to enjoy too. It was nice to have a page with a couple new guaranteed laughs every time I hit refresh.

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There were lots of great captions, yours really says it all. But ... which one of us got the better deal?

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Second prize was TWO copies of Vista!!!

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Nice, congratulations guys.

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haha, well done all :)

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LOL loved betavirus1025's comment!

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Does anyone have an extra copy of vista ultimate, I will have to spend my disabilty money to get it...I could help pay some money, or...willing to make arrangements...I am a disabled military veteran...thank you, have a nice week

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Hey Veteran,
I myself am in the service and I know the VA helps with people who are disabled to rehabilitate. See them.
V/R
Darrell

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Oh thank you,...gpgo@hotmail.com, my name is George...they have already, however they will not continue to buy me software...I also go to the Vet.Center...all I want to do is get a discounted version of Ultimate...I am willing to pay for some of it...it cost 259.00 plus tax...the reason I posted this post was if someone had an extra copy or willing to let me pay half for it...or something like that...

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