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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. 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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  3. 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.