Microsoft’s Free domain another Scam !

[beaudoin]

I smell a scam, ok this is not that new but I got an e-mail from Microsoft saying that they are offering free top level domain i.e. .com if I sign up with the free Microsoft office live which will give me a .com domain / 25 e-mail address / 500MB storage / office live manager and all is free totally free. Wao impressive hmmm but ok


rule no 1 ~ everything that is free go get it but
rule no 2 ~ never trust Microsoft.


http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/of...e/default.aspx


Okay so I digged a bit more and the story seems very interesting, its not that simple, it’s a marketing scam where they make money one way or another ….. here is how it works, first your register a free top level domain for your company to run business and make money and the domain becomes property of Microsoft as long as you use there Office live, if you cancel your office live subscription(free or paid) then you get to keep the domain but you can get it back after 60 day (now in 60 days you will be out of business you domain will have no ranking and will be approximately useless for you) so either use Microsoft or get bank corrupt  also the story does not end here once you cancel your subscription your domain will be in the hand of Australian company www.melbourneit.com.au/ who will charge you $35.00/per year for domain $7.50 for transfer and $155.00 redemption fee so the question is “IS MICROSOFT OFFERING FREE DOMAIN FOR HELPING YOU OUT or THEY ARE MAKING MONEY ONE WAY OR ANOTHER???


Now the other part, office live free account is technically useless, it comes with 500MB storage / 25 e-mail / allows you to make site for your self, but if you want to even use HTML for your website / advance features you pay $19 to $35 which can be increased or decreased ad per Microsoft monopoly.


Applause, lets share the love of Microsoft to the world

[cabron]

Well if u'r planning to use microsoft office live for some time now i don't think it would create a problem...but if u'r not sure...

[windrider]

It's a mistake to use any Microsoft product. They used to be good when they started out but now they're simply slow and useless.

[cabron]

Don't u use windows? Or MSn?

[lareneg]

Originally Posted by cabron

Don't u use windows? Or MSn?

There is a difference between using a program out of preference, or because you have no choice.

Windows: Yes. I use it. Because almost every program and game is designed or it, and it will run the most programs. Do I have a choice? No, unless I want to make my life very hard. Quite simply, I need windows to do everything I need. If I had a choice I'd go with something else.

MSN: Sure, there are others like Yahoo, and ICQ, but I use MSN for two reasons: 1) Almost all my friends use it, while none use any of the other programs 2) If I want to contact somebody there is a high chance they have MSN


Microsoft have a large monopoly over the computer side of things, and it gives us no choice but to use them.

[shadows]

it's not available to my country

[kjaonline]

Originally Posted by lareneg

There is a difference between using a program out of preference, or because you have no choice.

Windows: Yes. I use it. Because almost every program and game is designed or it, and it will run the most programs. Do I have a choice? No, unless I want to make my life very hard. Quite simply, I need windows to do everything I need. If I had a choice I'd go with something else.

MSN: Sure, there are others like Yahoo, and ICQ, but I use MSN for two reasons: 1) Almost all my friends use it, while none use any of the other programs 2) If I want to contact somebody there is a high chance they have MSN


Microsoft have a large monopoly over the computer side of things, and it gives us no choice but to use them.

Microsoft's strategy is to force users to use Microsoft products... It's a good thing that Linux is slowly on the rise, this gives consumers a choice and takes out part of the market from the hands of Bill Gates.

But let's also take note that there are opensource options for almost every program, though not as powerful or as useable as their microsoft counter parts..

Open-source also has WINE-Windows Emulatore.. It can emulate most Windows programs to run on Linux but at the expense of having some bugs...


Since I don't have my own computer I'm forced to use windows since my brothers use it for gaming.. I use it for gaming as well.. and that's probably the only reason that If I have my own computer I will dual boot it with windows and Linux.. ^^

[Sava]

If I'd choose between Microsofts offer and forums such as DDBoard I would definatly go for DDBoard.com
I don't trust that Bill Gates ... not at all. Thanks for explaining this to us beaudoin

[nioton]

yes I also do not trust them.
vote here for microsoft popularity

[kamirshahi]

I tanks ... microsoft
I tanks bill gates.
because of all of us that working with internet and computer,,,
beholden to his system!