Contest Beat

Interested in breaking up your day with a hand of poker and a chance to win some great prizes? How about learning more on visualizing, exploring, and communicating your IT processes, systems, and infrastructure? Well Microsoft have put together a pretty sweet contest that should let you do both!

They are giving away prizes such as Xbox 360’s, Zune’s, Microsoft gaming peripherals, and copies of Halo 3, Office Ultimate 2007, Windows Vista Ultimate, and Visio Professional 2007, and to enter all you need to do is register on the contest site here and play some poker!

There are two ways to win; just for playing, you have a chance to instantly win one of the many sweepstakes prizes (as mentioned above). Plus, at the end of the promotion, the top 20 scorers will be included in a drawing for even more prizes!

The contest is open to residents of the United States only and you must be 21 years of age older. It ends on 31 December so make sure you get started soon to try and rack up that score and be included in the additional drawing at the end!