We’re giving out $ twenty-five app cards all week long—perfect for stocking up on Xbox LIVE games and alternative apps you’ve had your eye on.

To measure one, proceed following @windowsphone (if you’re not already) on Twitter and demeanour for the summary about must-have Windows Phone apps. Then retweet it with your own must-have app for a possibility to win. The twitter contingency additionally embody the hashtag #windowsphone.

You’ll find the finish list of manners and authorised things below. The giveaway is U.S. only and ends Friday—so get tweeting!

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MICROSOFT WINDOWS PHONE SWEEPSTAKES

OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

COMMON TERMS USED IN THESE RULES:

These have been the central manners which oversee how the Microsoft Windows Phone sweepstakes graduation will operate. This graduation will be simply referred to as the “Sweepstakes” via the rest of these rules.

In these rules, “we,” “our,” and “us” impute to Microsoft Corporation, the unite of the Sweepstakes. “You” refers to an authorised Sweepstakes entrant.

WHAT ARE THE START AND END DATES?

This Sweepstakes starts at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time (PT) on Dec 12, 2011, and ends at 11:59 p.m. PT on Dec 16, 2011 (“Entry Period”). The Entry Period consists of 5 Weekday (Monday – Friday) Prize Periods, which any proceed at 12:01 a.m PT and finish at 11:59 p.m. PT.

CAN I ENTER?

You have been authorised to come in this Sweepstakes if we encounter the following mandate at time of entry:

· You are a authorised proprietor of the 50 United States and District of Columbia, and have been eighteen years of age or older.

o If we have been eighteen of age or older, though have been deliberate a teenager in your place of residence, we should ask your parent’s or authorised guardian’s accede prior to to submitting an entrance in to this Sweepstakes; and

· You have been NOT an worker of Microsoft Corporation or an worker of a Microsoft subsidiary; and

· You have been NOT involved in any partial of the administration department department and execution of this Sweepstakes; and

· You have been NOT an evident family (parent, sibling, spouse, child) or domicile partial of of a Microsoft employee, an worker of a Microsoft subsidiary, or a chairman concerned in any partial of the administration department department and execution of this Sweepstakes.

This Sweepstakes is blank outward of the geographic area described on top of and wherever else taboo by law.

HOW DO I ENTER

Step 1: Sign in to your Twitter comment and if we have been not already, turn a supporter of @windowsphone at http://twitter.com/windowsphone

Step 2: Tweet a summary to @windowsphone with your must-have Windows Phone app and embody the hashtag #windowsphone

Your twitter contingency embody the hashtag #windowsphone and contingency @reply to @windowsphone, and imitate with the Twitter.com conditions of operate to be eligible. Limit 1 entrance per chairman and Twitter hoop per Weekday Prize Period.  Non-winning entries will not be carried brazen in to any successive Prize Periods.

We have been not obliged for entries which we do not embrace for any reason, or for entries which we embrace though have been not decipherable for any reason.

We will automatically disqualify:

· Any deficient or unreadable entry; and

· Any entries which we embrace from we which have been in additional of the entrance border described above.

WINNER SELECTION AND PRIZES

On or around the tighten of any Weekday Prize Period, we will incidentally name winners from between all authorised entries perceived to win the esteem described below.

Daily Prize Period	Daily Prize	Number of every day Prizewinners	Approximate Retail Value
December 12-16, 2011	A $ twenty-five App present label to the Windows Phone Marketplace	8	$ 25

Limit a single Daily Prize per chairman per week during the Entry Period.

If we have been a intensity winner, we will notify we by promulgation a summary to the e-mail address, the phone number, or mailing address (if any) supposing at time of entrance inside of 7 (7) days following the pointless drawing. If the presentation which we send is returned as undeliverable, or we have been differently unreachable for any reason, we might endowment the esteem to an alternate, incidentally comparison winner. Only 3 (3) swap drawings will be reason after which the germane esteem will sojourn un-awarded

If there is a brawl as to who is the intensity winner, we will cruise the intensity leader to be the certified comment hilt of the e-mail address used to come in the Sweepstakes . If we have been a intensity winner, we might need we to pointer an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability/Publicity Release and a W-9 taxation form or W-8 BEN taxation form inside of 10 days of notification. If we have been a intensity leader and we have been eighteen or older, though have been deliberate a teenager in your place of authorised residence, we might need your primogenitor or authorised defender to pointer all compulsory forms on your behalf. If we do not finish the compulsory forms as educated and/or lapse the compulsory forms inside of the time duration listed on the leader presentation message, we might invalidate we and name an alternate, incidentally comparison winner.

If we have been reliable as a leader of this Sweepstakes:

• You might not sell your esteem for money or any alternative sell or services. However, if for any reason an advertised esteem is unavailable, we haven the right to surrogate a esteem of next to or larger value; and

• You might not appropriate someone else as the winner. If we have been incompetent or reluctant to accept your prize, we will endowment it to an swap intensity winner; and

• If we accept a prize, we will be only obliged for all germane taxes associated to usurpation the prize; and

• If we have been differently authorised for this Sweepstakes, though have been deliberate a teenager in your place of residence, we might endowment the esteem to your parent/legal defender on your behalf; and

• Unless differently noted, all prizes have been theme to their manufacturer’s guaranty and / or conditions and conditions.

WHAT ARE YOUR ODDS OF WINNING?

Your contingency of winning this Sweepstakes rely on the series of authorised entries we receive.

WHAT OTHER CONDITIONS ARE YOU AGREEING TO BY ENTERING THIS SWEEPSTAKES?

By entering this Sweepstakes we agree:

· To reside by these Official Rules; and

· To recover and reason submissive Microsoft,and the particular parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees and agents from any and all guilt or any injury, detriment or repairs of any kind outset from or in tie with this Sweepstakes or any esteem won; and

· That Microsoft’s decisions will be last and contracting on all counts associated to this Sweepstakes; and

· That by usurpation a prize, Microsoft might operate of your correct name and state of chateau online and in print, or in any alternative media, in tie with this Sweepstakes, but remuneration or remuneration to you, solely where taboo by law.

WHAT LAWS GOVERN THE WAY THIS SWEEPSTAKES IS EXECUTED AND ADMINISTRATED?

This Sweepstakes will be governed by the laws of the State of Washington, and we agree to the disdainful office and venue of the courts of the State of Washington for any disputes outset out of this Sweepstakes.

WHAT IF SOMETHING UNEXPECTED HAPPENS AND THE SWEEPSTAKES CAN’T RUN AS PLANNED?

If cheating, a virus, bug, inauspicious event, or any alternative variable or astonishing eventuality which cannot be pretty expected or controlled, (also referred to as force majeure) affects the firmness and / or firmness of this Sweepstakes, we haven the right to cancel, shift or postpone this Sweepstakes. This right is indifferent either the eventuality is due to tellurian or technical error. If a resolution cannot be found to revive the firmness of the Sweepstakes, we haven the right to incidentally name winners from between all authorised entries perceived prior to we had to cancel, shift or postpone the Sweepstakes.

If we try to concede the firmness or the bona fide operation of this Sweepstakes by hacking or by intrigue or committing rascal in ANY way, we might find indemnification from we to the fullest border available by law. Further, we might anathema we from participating in any of the destiny Sweepstakes, so greatfully fool around fairly.

HOW CAN YOU FIND OUT WHO WON?

If we send a self-addressed hammered pouch to the address by Dec 31, 2011, we will yield we with a list of winners which perceived a prize.

Attn. Windows Phone Twitter App Card Contest
500 Washington Street
Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94111

WHO IS SPONSORING THIS SWEEPSTAKES?

Microsoft Corporation

One Microsoft Way

Redmond, WA 98052