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Microsoft cloud services: Phone scam or hard sell?
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| Remember reader Bob's recent Grip about a
| possible service-invoice con that turned out to
| be an error? Here's another dubious practice --
| repeated phone calls about Microsoft cloud
| computing -- that proved worthy of investigation.
|
| "Am I the only one getting multiple phone calls
| from Microsoft Cloud Computing every day?" asks
| Gripe Line reader Jim. "I've received no less
| than 10 calls this week alone from a call center
| in India claiming to be from Microsoft with
| questions about my cloud computing use. One fella
| named Mario has called four times already. Do you
| know if this is something Microsoft is doing, or
| is it some form of phone SPAM?"
|
| [...]
|
| As it turns out, the calls are in fact coming
| from an overzealous contractor hired by Microsoft
| to promote its cloud services.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/microsoft-cloud-services-phone-scam-or-hard-sell-236
Recent:
Is Microsoft spamming websites to boost its numbers?
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| Microsoft claims that it's all part of a quality control effort, but a rising
| number of web masters is complaining that Microsoft is trying to inflate its
| Live.com traffic delivery by spamming websites.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9984574-16.html
Related:
Microsoft funding bankrupt Live Search experiment with porn spam
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| Dear reader, please tell me: what do you think of a search engine that steals
| (bandwidth and AdSense revenue), lies, spams away, and is not clever enough
| to stop their criminal activities when theyâre caught?
|
| Recently a Live Search rep whined in an interview because so many robots.txt
| files out there block their crawler...
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http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/microsoft-live-search-the-downfall-of-a-tiny-search-engine/
Microsoftâs Club Live fiasco
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| People were using the macro on more than 3 games at a time, on more than 2
| accounts at a time, why Microsoft didnât pick up on the fact that in the
| first few days some people had accumulated enough for 3 Zunes each is beyond
| us. Some were lucky, others, not so much.
|
| [...]
|
| So far no one has been banned from using their accounts, which they needed to
| sign up, probably because they did not break any laws, or probably because
| Microsoft didnât want that hassle and liked their new found traffic.
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http://www.blogthe.net/2007/07/16/microsofts-club-live-fiasco/
Bots Helped To Boost Microsoft Live Search Gains
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| In a blog post, Compete analyst Steve Willis attributed Microsoft's
| search gains to prizes awarded to users participating in Live Search
| Club, which features games that post queries to Microsoft's search
| engine.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft is essentially being DDoSed by thousands of people hundreds
| of times per minute, but they are mistaking this rise in traffic for
| people actually using Live Search."
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001092
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