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MICROSOFT KINECT - MSDN NEWSLETTER CONTEST

OFFICIAL RULES AND REGULATIONS

  1. No purchase necessary. To be eligible to win, a participant must be a resident of Canada (excluding Quebec) and of the age of majority in his or her province of residence. Any potential participant who is an employee of Microsoft Corporation or Microsoft Canada Inc. ("Microsoft"), their affiliated companies, advertising agencies, prize suppliers or other representatives, or a member of the respective immediate families of such employees or anyone with whom such employees are domiciled is ineligible to participate in the contest. "Immediate family" is defined as parents, siblings, children or spouse.
  2. The contest will run from November 4, 2010 to 11:59PM EST on November 11th, 2010.
  3. Eligible participants may enter the contest by:
    1. Clicking here and answering the following question: "Approximately how much processing power your PC has to offer do today's websites and browsers use?" Email your answer to Ted Chun at a-techu@microsoft.com by the contest close date. Please indicate in the subject line: Kinect MSDN Newsletter Contest and please include a contact telephone number.
  4. One (1) winner will be selected by random draw to be held on November 15, 2010. The draw will be held at Microsoft located at 1950 Meadowvale Blvd. Mississauga, Ontario. The chances of being selected depend upon the number of entries.
  5. The selected participant will be notified by telephone within thirty (30) days of the draw and, prior to being declared a winner, will be required to correctly answer, unaided and without mechanical or electronic assistance, a time-limited, mathematical skill-testing technical question, to be administered by telephone at a mutually convenient time.
  6. If the selected participant is unable to correctly answer the skill-testing question, cannot be reached by telephone within thirty (30) days of the draw, or otherwise does not meet all contest conditions, his or her prize will be forfeited and another entrant will be drawn from the remaining eligible entries.
  7. There is one (1) prize available to be won, consisting of a Xbox 360 Kinect (approximate retail value of $149.99). The prize will be couriered to the winner's address within two (2) weeks of the receipt of the signed declaration and release. All taxes related to a prize are payable by the winner. Any costs or expenses incurred by the winners in claiming or using their prizes are the responsibility of the winners.
  8. The prizes are non-transferable and no cash alternatives will be provided. Microsoft reserves the right to substitute the prizes described above in (7) with prizes of equal or greater value.
  9. By entering, all participants agree to abide by the official rules and regulations and decisions of the contest organizers which are final. All entries become the property of Microsoft and will not be returned.
  10. To be declared a winner, a selected participant will be required to sign a declaration and release to: (a) confirm compliance with the official rules and regulations; (b) release Microsoft from all liability; (c) accept the prize as awarded; and (d) consents to the use of winner's name, city and/or province of residence, photograph, voice, image, likeness, biographical information and information about the prize, for any publicity or programming purposes, commercial or otherwise, throughout the world in any and all media used by Microsoft and its advertising and promotional agencies in connection with the contest, without payment or compensation.
  11. In consideration of this prize, the undersigned hereby irrevocably consents to the use of my/ Winner's name, city and/or province of residence, photograph, voice, image, likeness, biographical information and information about the prize, for any publicity or programming purposes, commercial or otherwise, throughout the world in any and all media used by Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Canada Co. and their respective advertising and promotional agencies in connection with the Contest, without payment or compensation.
  12. The contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations. Void where prohibited.
  13. No correspondence will be entered into with participants except with the winner.
  14. Microsoft assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction to or unauthorized alteration of the entries. Microsoft is not responsible for (i) any problems or technical malfunctions or any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software; (ii) the failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Microsoft on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site; or (iii) any combination thereof, including any injury or related damage to participants or any other persons, whether computer-related or resulting from participation or downloading of any materials in this contest.
  15. In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the terms and conditions of these rules and disclosures or other statements contained in any contest-related materials, including but not limited to the contest entry form, or point of sale, television, print or online advertising, the terms and conditions of these rules shall prevail, govern and control.