Microsoft Bribing Users To Use Passport
from the it's-nice-to-have-cash dept
It must be nice to have $36 billion in cash. Are people expressing skepticism about signing up for your big-brotherish e-wallet/identity tracking system? Bribe ’em! That, at least, seems to be Microsoft’s plan. Despite many pleas from XP’s startup, it seems that not enough people are signing up for or using their “Passport” system. So, now, if you buy $100 worth of stuff through Passport, Microsoft will give you $20. Another $100 spent? Another $20. You can do that up to a total of $100 (so $500 spent). I wonder if you can do that loophole that screwed Microsoft a couple years ago when you could get a $400 discount if you signed up for 2 years of MSN – but in some places you could immediately cancel the MSN.
Comments on “Microsoft Bribing Users To Use Passport”
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i just got a kodak 2MP digital camera
$300 – 60 – 50 gift cert (thru 800.com)
net cost = 190
thanks MSFT!
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I’m pissed off. My 500$ DVD player that I bought for 100$ thanks to M$ at Bestbuy a couple years ago is starting to flake out on me!
msykes
PS: I apologize for the low content level of the post. Evidently the Passport thing has allowed a lot of people to get good deals on TiVo’s though:-)
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That’s especially funny since Microsoft is desperately trying to figure out how to price their Ultimate TV against the Tivo…