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MS Zone Users Must Use Passport Accounts

Posted by timothy on from the start-your-own-instead dept.

pathos writes: "CNet reports in this article that Microsoft, in its continued obsession to get everyone and his/her mother to be a registered Passport user, forced all of it's MS Zone gaming site users (including players of 'Asheron's Call') to open accounts in Passport in order to keep using the service... too bad that a bug with their .NET deployment kept many users not being able to access the service..." Of course, if you run the hotel, you get to say who uses the pool ...

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  1. Hotel pools by Shadowlion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, if you run the hotel, you get to say who uses the pool...

    Yeah, but you can't control who pees in it.

    :)

  2. ROTFL... ahh, the cruel, cruel irony. by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the article:
    "It's a difficult task, but other companies have done it--Starbucks just switched their old log-in system to Passport and did it smoothly."

    "It's kind of surprising," Rosoff added. "If anyone should be able to implement a Passport switch, it's Microsoft."


    That is hilarious: The staffers at a coffee house that, no doubt, keep MS programmers in caffinated beverages, can implement MS's own stuff better than MS can.

    Ahaaahahaha.

    Do you think maybe we should send MS some penguin mints? Oh, wait, belay that...probably most here would consider that aid and comfort to the enemy.

    .

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  3. Re:This surprised people? by talks_to_birds · · Score: 5, Funny
    • "...I hear you need to be a US Citizen to be able to vote in the US, too..."

    No. Wrong.

    You need a M$ Passport to vote in the United States...

    t_t_b

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  4. Pee patch by Wrexs0ul · · Score: 4, Funny

    Little do we know microsoft will soon be providing:

    POOL ex-pee

    To try and convince users there's no more pee in the pool. Once new hotel guests jump in, they'll realize why the water's still yellow.

    -Wrexsoul

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  5. Unsubscribing from MS mailing lists by Joao · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had to register several copies of MS software for my office some time ago, and since then I've been receiving a whole lot of newsletters from them. So I followed their instructions on how to unsubscribe, and went to http://www.microsoft.com/info/unsubscribe.htm

    Guess what? In order to unsubscribe from their spam, I need to sign up for Passport.

    So I set up a procmail filter.