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Microsoft Gives Up on Hailstorm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the partly-sunny dept.

Dephex Twin writes "According to a NYTimes article: due to lack of 3rd-party support for Microsoft's "Persona" (originally codenamed "Hailstorm"), the company has been forced to dump the project. It seems the companies didn't like having a middleman between them and the consumers. As a person worried about the future with .NET, this is a bit of a relief."

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  1. Re:Registration by BrookHarty · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Why is it hard to sign up for a free account, and always use it? Even if you create a fake account, you can have mozilla fill it in for you every time..

  2. Re:Yay - now get Messenger outta my face by byran+lei · · Score: 0, Redundant

    >Hopefully if you've used Windows XP you know about Start>Run>
    >RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection
    >%windir%\INF\msmsgs .inf,BLC.Remove
    >to uninstall MSN Messenger completely.
    >
    >
    And you Windows users bitch about Redhat's "rpm -e {program to uninstall}" being difficult to use?