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Re: [News] Adobe and Microsoft Give Free Samples, Incentives to Get Adults and Kids 'Hooked'

After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> Adobe targets school kids to get them hooked on software
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Adobe is where the 'apps' are manufactured. These apps that have the
> | power to make images appear before our children's eyes. "There were
> | all these, like, stars, and they were rotating. It really captured
> | my attention," said Nigel, 14, hardly more than a child, but with
> | the vacant expression of a man who has spent hours looking at a
> | screen. Nigel has now discovered he needs glasses.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38254

Stop computing, or you'll go blind!

> Microsoft: 'Financial incentives' for Live Search data
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In an apparent attempt to boost its disappointing Web search market
> | share, Microsoft is giving financial incentives to large enterprise
> | customers whose employees use Microsoft's Live Search engine.
> `----
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070316/tc_infoworld/86900

Just like they did for Go-Daddy.

Just like they tried to do for Munich.

Just like they sometimes do for sympathetic bloggers.

Just like they do for developers (actually a nice thing, though, in my
opinion.)

The first one is free!!!

-- 
   "Developers!  Developers!  Developers!"  -- Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft

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