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MS Promotion Site Flagged By MS Anti-Phishing
Stony Stevenson writes "Microsoft has launched a marketing campaign that lets any student at an Australian university buy the Ultimate edition of Office 2007, usual price $1,150, for only $75 — a discount of about 93%. But when students go to the promotion site, Microsoft Live OneCare pops up a warning that the site may be a phishing scam.
The warning reads: 'Phishing filter has determined this might be a phishing website. We recommend that you do not give any of your information to such websites. Phishing websites impersonate trustworthy websites for the purpose of obtaining your personal or financial information.'"
Its about time....Microsoft has finally recognized itself as evil. Hell has officially frozen over :)
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Wow! Live OneCare actually does work!
If any Australian students would like to make a cool 100% profit, please let me know. :)
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It's just part of an overall "bad boy" campaign that MS is using to try to seem cool.
Go ahead and buy from us. IF YOU HAVE THE GUTS.
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"You are attempting to save money! Would you like to allow or deny?"
I have a large company, and it knows exactly what my right hand is doing...
My Australian is rusty.
Give him a good going over with some wire wool and light oil, that should fix him right up!
Slightly off topic, but can we motion to come up with a new 'M$' logo?
1. The guy is barely involved within the company anymore.
2. Bill Gates has started a profoundly large charity foundation
3. Someone could make some downright hilarious steve ballmer cyborg icons with minimal effort.
Am I the only one feeling this?
Actually it does have an Australian to English converter. I'm not too sure what good that would do a Yank though.
I think it must be broken. I keep putting in Fosters but I don't get back beer.
And in the English to Australian converter, I keep putting in coffee but I still don't get back beer.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
No one out there really seems to get it. Fosters - goes in the same category with Rolf Harris, Steve Irwin (god bless him) and Crocodile Dundee:
Shit we foist on other people.
-Steve http://www.stevennicholson.com
You're using Vista's speech recognition, right?
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They probably left in in the anti-phishing filter deliberately. Irony generates news, and news generate truckloads of free exposure.
"Any publicity is good publicity, as long as they spell my name right"
We all think it's ironic that MS software blocks an MS promotion campaign. We generated a truckload of comments laughing our asses off.
The REAL irony that escapes us is that we gentoo- and ubuntu- running geeks all talk about it, laugh about it, tell our friends, family and collegues in the office about it, and get the word out to a lot of people, a decent percentage of which (who have student IDs in AU and/or access to someone with such) will hear "blah blah office 2k7 ultimate for 75A$ blah blah microsoft blooper blah". And guess what those of them who use office and can do the math will do then.
Thus, thanks to us slashdot crowd, myself being a gentoo-desktop-running Aussie student (who also runs Windows on some of his machines) who is neither religious about being anti-microsoft nor thinks they do not deserve a sane amount of money for a software suite I wish to use, I promptly went out and paid microsoft 75$. Good'on'em.
And looking back at our beloved slashdot crowd, I think that I, for one, welcome our new microsoft-promoting slashdotter overlords.
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