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[News] Microsoft SPAMS Its Own Clients for Extra Cash

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft SPAMS Its Own Clients for Extra Cash
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:41:05 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Microsoft's (RED) Spam

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| This morning, I got (PRODUCT) RED e-mail at a @live.com address that is 
| almost never used. I reserved the address for communications with the state 
| about my daughter's homeschooling. California hasn't needed to send mail, and 
| the e-mail address has received no spam.     
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/microsofts_red_spam.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/2l2b9u

Wow. Microsoft really needs more sales.


Related:

Microsoft Using YouTube To Promote Vista & Live, Leaves Comments Open

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| The more interesting aspect is that Microsoft would use the Google owned 
| YouTube for such as promotion; it certainly demonstrates just how powerful 
| the market position of YouTube has become over the last 2 years that 
| Microsoft would use it to promote their products.   
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/30/microsoft-using-youtube-to-promote-vista-live-leaves-comments-open/
http://tinyurl.com/2ghzzm


Microsoft funding bankrupt Live Search experiment with porn spam

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| Dear reader, please tell me: what do you think of a search engine that steals 
| (bandwidth and AdSense revenue), lies, spams away, and is not clever enough 
| to stop their criminal activities when they’re caught?  
| 
| Recently a Live Search rep whined in an interview because so many robots.txt 
| files out there block their crawler... 
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http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/microsoft-live-search-the-downfall-of-a-tiny-search-engine/


Microsoft’s Club Live fiasco

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| People were using the macro on more than 3 games at a time, on more than 2 
| accounts at a time, why Microsoft didn’t pick up on the fact that in the 
| first few days some people had accumulated enough for 3 Zunes each is beyond 
| us. Some were lucky, others, not so much.   
|
| [...]
| 
| So far no one has been banned from using their accounts, which they needed to 
| sign up, probably because they did not break any laws, or probably because 
| Microsoft didn’t want that hassle and liked their new found traffic.  
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http://www.blogthe.net/2007/07/16/microsofts-club-live-fiasco/


Bots Helped To Boost Microsoft Live Search Gains

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| In a blog post, Compete analyst Steve Willis attributed Microsoft's 
| search gains to prizes awarded to users participating in Live Search 
| Club, which features games that post queries to Microsoft's search 
| engine.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Microsoft is essentially being DDoSed by thousands of people hundreds 
| of times per minute, but they are mistaking this rise in traffic for 
| people actually using Live Search."
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001092

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