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Download PDF It was nice to see Microsoft sharing a portion of their Windows Live Messenger advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective organizations dedicated to social causes.
But but but…. is it ALL about ONLY charity?
You should have noticed that to participate in this charity you must have Windows Live Messenger 8.1.
Why is it? Why not with the old MSN Messenger? Doesnt it raise eyebrows?
And there is the Get Involved campaign. Where it advertises as:
It’s easy to get everyone talking by adding a Windows Live™ Messenger i’m button to your Web site or blog, or by displaying it in your e-mail signature
You are the one who’s going to make this work. The i’m™ initiative depends on you getting involved by adding i’m buttons or banners to your Web site or blog, or by displaying them in your e-mail signature. Tell your coworkers, family, and friends – and tell them to tell people. The more people you get to start i’m conversations, the more money gets raised. You can make a difference, one conversation at a time.
Doesnt it sound like “Spread Windows Live Messenger 8.1” campaign? And that too in the name of charity?
September 27th, 2008 at 12:58 am
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May 23rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
There are one or more “social causes,” on the list that I do not want to support. Yet I am forced to support them if I want to use the new Instant Messenger or my Hot Mail account.
What is next, is Bill Gates going to force us to support the Obama campaign?
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December 31st, 2007 at 9:24 am
well company charities are *always* advertising campaigns, for all i care. it doesn’t matter much to me if they wanna do it.
December 28th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Duh anyone can see that but it doesn’t hurt to help in any way I guess it’s a start. Does it hurt or cost you to download a new version? We do it all the time anyway.
July 24th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
My guess is that the older versions of Messenger did not have the capability of tracking charities. So, MS most likely had to implement a new version with the code that could accommodate. It is probably more a simple explanation than a big conspiracy.
July 1st, 2007 at 7:16 am
When your friends upgrade to newer cell phones, are you forced to upgrade as well in order to speak with her? Certainly no. Are you allowed to use the ATM card issued by one bank at the ATM machine that belongs to another bank, in a foreign country? Yes, Then why do the world collectively tolerate the incompatibility not only between Microsoft products with those from other vendors, but also between its own newer and older versions, as was the case with the MSN 6.1 upgrade cycle in 2003, or the various upgrade cycles of versions of the Microsoft Word?
http://blog.ofset.org/ckhung/index.php?post/2007/06/30/Learn-the-history-before-joinging-the-MSN-IM-initiative
May 28th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Yet they continue to get major tax breaks. Did you know that in 1999 (ok, that was a while ago, not sure about today) MS didn’t pay a single cent in taxes though they earned $12.3 bill in profit? The amount they donate pales in comparison.
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Yet another unwaranted attack on Microsoft. Perhaps the fact that microsoft and their employees have given over 1 billion dollars in cash to charities over the years, doesn’t mean a thing?
April 7th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
It looks like a charity campaign squezzed into a promotional campaign of Windows Live. I hate when Microsoft does this..All these pathetic fools try to market in the name of charity.