Today, along with availability on MSDN and TechNet, Microsoft posted the final RTM bits for beta testers on Connect. In a surprise move, Microsoft is making free copies of the Business or Ultimate editions to "any invited technical beta tester who submitted a bug. Period." (Sorry CPP members, that's not you).
In an interview with Paul Donnelly, Test Manager for Windows Beta programs, he said "It's a balance, and I decided to err on the side of customer happiness in requiring only a single bug to qualify." In stark contrast, Office beta testers got the shaft when it came time to reward testers for their efforts.
So if you were on the TechBeta and just relied on Windows Error Reporting to send your bugs in for you, you're SOL. Even if you ended up beating your head against the desk for a bug you could reproduce a hundred times that got closed as "Not Reproducible", you get a product key to complement you're now-flat forehead.
That's thousands of free copies of Windows, folks. At $399 a pop. You do the math. If 5,000 beta testers got a free copy, that's almost $2M in free software. How's that for a thank you?