Opera's 10th birthday. Ad-less Opera for free today only! | The Coffeehouse

I haven't really used any other browsers than IE, I've briefly used Opera before but was really put off by the ads. But now that Opera has turned 10 (in years since it was released the first time, not in versions) the developers of Opera are giving it away for free! I know Opera already is free (with ads) but they are giving away Opera for free (wthout ads!). I myself find it hard to go past something free, and Opera is no different.

All you have to do is go to this page today and enter in your email and you'll get all the registration numbers for the Opera browser (all the different OS's it comes on). Which is pretty good, you don't even have to put in a real email, it just brings up a page with the reg numbers on it. Opera without the ads is really good, hopefully the C9Team fix the problems that the C9 site has with the Opera browser.

Hurry up this is a special 10th anniversary giveaway for today only!
Loadsgood!

Oberon

Cool. Thanks for posting this Loadsgood. Smiley

Loadsgood

Oberon wrote:

Cool. Thanks for posting this Loadsgood.

Your welcome Oberon, I just saw it on MSFN and I searched C9 and didn't find anything on it so I thought I'd post it up. But the big question is... Why didn't Microsoft do this for Windows 95's 10th birthday? Free reg key here, free reg key there, it would've been great Wink

EDIT: Argh, I'm going to edit this in IE.
EDIT2: Fixed.

Posted from Opera, edited with IE.
loadsgood.

Oberon

LOL. Posting under Linux with Firefox is also jacked up. Guess Charles and Adam wanted to make sure Opera users "feel the love" too. Big Smile

andokai

Loadsgood wrote:

I searched C9 and didn't find anything on it

Previous posting was here, not that it matters.

blowdart

Loadsgood wrote:

Your welcome Oberon, I just saw it on MSFN and I searched C9

Yea, the search is really really bad

Loadsgood

andokai wrote:

Loadsgood wrote: I searched C9 and didn't find anything on it

Previous posting was here, not that it matters.

ARGH! I was really hoping not to be slow with posting news on C9 this time... ****. Oh well, I'll just leave the news to other people to post.

In the mean time here's a bunch of free stuff I got notified of in the latest MSDN Flash Australia newsletter:

Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers
Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Complimentary ASP.NET Training Resources
The Visual Studio Hosted Experience
Download eBay's Complimentary SDK for Windows
Download New Crystal Reports Web Services Zone

Complimentary Training and Resources

Visual Studio 2005

•	Clinic 2551: Introduction to Visual Studio Team System
•	Course 2924: Building Data Components in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
•	Course 2925: Building Managed Code for SQL Server 2005 and Creating SOA Applications with Visual Studio 2005
•	Course 2926: Building Windows Forms Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
•	Course 2927: Building Web Applications with ASP.NET 2.0
•	Course 2928: Implementing Data Access and Security in an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application
•	Course 2929: Implementing Wizards, Site Navigation, State Management, and Configuration in ASP.NET 2.0
•	Course 2930: Implementing Master Pages, Personalization, and Web Parts with ASP.NET 2.0

Security

•	Clinic 2801: Microsoft Security Guidance Training I
•	Clinic 2802: Microsoft Security Guidance Training II
•	Clinic 2803: Microsoft Security Guidance Training III
•	Clinic 2804: Microsoft Security Guidance Training IV
•	Clinic 2808: Microsoft Security Guidance Training V
•	Clinic 2855: Managing Security Enhancements in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
•	Hands-on Lab 2811: Applying Microsoft Security Guidance Training
•	Hands-on Lab 2812: Applying Microsoft Security Guidance Training II

SQL Server 2005

•	Course 2936: Installing and Securing Microsoft SQL Server 2005
•	Course 2937: Administering and Monitoring Microsoft SQL Server 2005
•	Course 2938: Data Availability Features in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
•	Course 2939: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2005
•	Course 2940: Building Services and Notifications Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
•	Course 2941: Creating the Data Access Tier Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005
•	Course 2942: New Features of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
•	Course 2943: Updating Your Data ETL Skills to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
•	Course 2944: Updating Your Reporting Skills to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

End User Support

•	Clinic 2263: Exam Preparation for the MCDST Certification
•	Using the Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment Standard Edition

Microsoft Office

•	Course 2909: Getting Started with Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005
•	Course 2910: Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005: Next Steps for Organisers
•	Course 2911: Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005: Next Steps for Presenters
•	Course 2912: Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2005: Getting Started for Administrators

Free, free, free!
Loadsgood.

HARV

Just a correction

Opera browser has been free from ads for over a month now Smiley

Here is snippet form there press release
Opera press releases Feel Free: Opera Eliminates Ad Banner and Licensing Fee Oslo, Norway - September 20, 2005

Opera Software today permanently removed the ad banner and licensing fee from its award-winning Web browser. The ad-free, full-featured Opera browser is now available for download - completely free of charge – at http://www.opera.com.

nJOY
HARV

W3bbo

This thread ended on August 31st.

Opera's freebeerness was revealed in September, after this thread went to the cemetary.

Please don't peform thread necromancy.