On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:58:34PM -0400, Grigsby, Garl wrote:
On another note, I have no problem letting Microsoft supply me with messaging service, especially when it is free to me. I use Hotmail to. Why not. They don't get a dime from me, and they won't either. I just like the portable nature of Hotmail. Same thing with MSN Messenger. As long as they are not charging me for it, and I don't have to look at their ads, I have no problem with it.
Just my random thoughts for the afternoon.
Garl, they do get 'dimes' for your using hotmail. Everytime you send
email with hotmail you send out MS ads attached to your email. They may
also show you ads while on the interface, I don't know. If there are
3rd party ads, they are getting a lot of advertiser views and a lot of
dimes. There are many webmail services that provide the same portable
nature and that do not support MS. Check out myrealbox.com for
instance. They run on novell something or other.
I don't see how using MSN Messenger would support them if you are using a unix client, though.
Cory
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