Is this just a guise to get people to hand over their contact information? So it can be linked and associated with a GitHub profile?

It's presented as an official Microsoft product (the link), but it's just a random public-facing form hosted on Microsoft Forms from Joe Schmoe.

This is a wrong move on so many levels.

This feels like a tongue-in-cheek joke about playstation going diskless

For those that missed it, Sony announced that Playstation will no longer support physical media. This is Microsoft ribbing them.

Someone at Microsoft must have found a shit ton of old CD-ROMS and this is their way of getting rid of them as an Xbox ad campaign lol

> Supplies are limited, and the first 1,000 eligible submissions will receive one. Limit one per person. Availability may be limited by country or region.

This seems quite limited to be a real product, but also quite a lot for seemingly what’s just a joke to mock Sony for ceasing blu-ray production.

It’s worth mentioning that github does (did?) do some cool stuff with physical media archiving of code like the arctic project [1], but these CDs are burned, not pressed so they’ll only last around 10 years

[1]: https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault

Awesome! It is indeed a marvelous merchandize concept! An effortful work of ingenious ideas and great history... sealed in a iridescent CD and signed by a supportive holder of it on public...

Thank you, for an awesome, relatively ingenious idea to preserve the history and highlight its significance in a human history, the love for discoveries and cooperation...

I love it...

One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage

Bold of them to call out another company when they haven't been doing well in the court of public opinion themselves lately.

> Offer valid from July 2, 2026 to July 6, 2026.

Microsoft discontinuing physical copies after in one week