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Microsoft Taps Bloggers to Promote Longhorn

Posted by timothy on from the it's-like-totally-cool dept.

Tim writes "With Beta 1 of Longhorn less than two months away, Microsoft is looking at a new marketing tool to help promote its new Windows: bloggers. According to BetaNews, Microsoft's "Team 99" evangelism effort will be composed of bloggers that will become Microsoft's voice to the masses. Robert Scoble said Team 99 was once secret, but has been revived and Microsoft is now accepting nominations. It's nice to see Microsoft recognizing the power of blogs, but the move is likely going to draw accusations that Redmond is trying to buy off bloggers to hype Longhorn."

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  1. How many Slashdot accounts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've often wondered how many Slashdot accounts are operated by paid shills and their ilk.

  2. Re:Astroturf, Anyone? by zulux · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Such as "people hack IE only because it is popular",

    I'll ad another:

    The "XP is only crashes becuase of all the different hardware it supports" astroturfer.

    the completly miss the fact that FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux support most of the x86 hardware that XP does --- AND PowerPC AND Sparc AND Aplha AND Mips etc....

    *BSD and Linux manage to be stable, why can XP??? Hmmmmm...

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