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 Rufus Hound and the Windows team have been replacing unsuspecting owners out-of-date, old computers with shiny, new laptops from The Collection complete with Windows 7 and Office 2010.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