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Microsoft Using .MS TLD

Posted by kdawson on from the step-right-up dept.

mqudsi writes "Microsoft is using the .MS top-level domain, assigned to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, for its Web 2.0-flavored Popfly project. You can get your own .MS name if you really want to — there are no restrictions on foreign ownership — at $180 US for 2 years. As of this writing microsoft.ms is available." In an obliquely related note, TechBlorge has up a rumination on the resemblance of the Popfly logo to Tux.

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  1. Re:That'll make you cringe by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Troll

    looks more like a middle aged diversity bowling league than a startup. I wonder if token girl and striped shirt homo share blowjob tips.

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  2. So Limited. Par for the course. by Erris · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pretending to be a start up is bad, but it must feel dirty to work on a tool with the usual M$ predetermined limits:

    The Non-Professional tools team builds software to enable new, hobbyist, and other non-professional programmers - as well as complete non-programmers - to build and share their work. Our team's vision is to democratize development by making it approachable to an entire class of people that want to "create" without necessarily having to write code. We believe that if you can send an email, you should be able to build and personalize your own website, mashup, social networking site, or blog.

    They said the same sorts of things about Basic and many other of their tools. What it means is they have no respect for your work. In the Basic case, they made so many work breaking changes that it was easier to learn C and the Windoze API.

    The whole thing just drips with clueless arrogance. "Non-Professional", "hobbyist", "mashup, social networking site, or blog." It just sort of says, "thanks for the content, kid." Reasonable sites don't set limits like that and offer you a cut of advertising revenue, regardless of programming skills. The web is just another tool. Sites that come with limits like this are defective by design. In a world with many reasonable alternatives, Popfly is going to do as well as Zune.

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  3. Talk about Fake. by Erris · · Score: 0, Troll

    I love it when M$ people post on Slashdot, pretending to be normal computer people. Does your boss still think Linux is a "cancer"?

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