MSN to start charging 'user fee'

[Ben Smith]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm


Microsoft is reportedly planning to start charging surfers for the improved services of its MSN internet portal.

[Seb Hughes]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm
Meh, I doubt they will cause, the 200 million people will just an alternative, and msn will lose out big time, so keep it free woudl eb a good idea.

[BadNumbers]

True, if they start making me pay i'll never go on. Sopmeone will find a way around anyway. :P

[λ]

@BadNumbers: Could you change your footer to meet the 300x60 limit please?

I doubt they'll do it as well.. more people will move to google if they actively start charging for it, anyhoo :P

[Butters]

Hasen't anyone noticed the date on that article? It's like 5 years old...

I guess you got that fowarded e-mail, eh Omega?

[Seb Hughes]

Hasen't anyone noticed the date on that article? It's like 5 years old...

I guess you got that fowarded e-mail, eh Omega?

:lol:, And there was me getting worried.

[Jeff Wheeler]

Yeah, you can tell because of the incredibly old page design. ;)

[love police]

:lol:

[Butters]

I can't belive how many people fell for it aswel (that link was sent out in one of those retarded 'e-mail this link to at least 14 people or your account will get deleted' fowarded emails).

[Seb Hughes]

I can't belive how many people fell for it aswel (that link was sent out in one of those retarded 'e-mail this link to at least 14 people or your account will get deleted' fowarded emails).

Yea, man it pisses me off so much those thigns, or send this too 10 people and you drweam will coem true, etc whihc sad people write this crap. I just wanna feed them to hungry lions.

[chrisclick]

theres no need after 200 million people download it that dowload button is an afflite so theres no need to pay at all :| Microsofts just so stupid if they do this

[Seb Hughes]

^You stupid?, this is 5 years old. Dont you ever read whats been said in the thread be fore you post?

[hybrid101]

damn chain letters...link fooled me

[ya3]

Hahhah... that's a hillarity. I remember that old two-tone Hotmail page design. Classic.

[SlowRoasted]

Love these old news threads, everyone freaks out until someone points out the date lol.

[GPP]

Everyone would change to yahoo or somethin

[NANO3]

True, if they start making me pay i'll never go on. Sopmeone will find a way around anyway. :P

Offtopic: fix your footer size, its huge and its over 15kb (*45kb*)

how does one get an @msn email address?

[GPP]

Yeah thats puzzled me....

Ive seen @msn.com
I can only get @hotmail.com lol

[Acidic Frog]

I got mine when the only thing available to me was MSN dial-up.
Then I got broadband from Comcast and MSN let me keep the @msn

[NoirWD]

Thats flippin' hilarious; I really hate these emails, I get mad when ppl send me them, do you think that MS will send out an email like that...i doubt it.

Noir.

[Butters]

No they never would, all of those chain letters are complete bullcrap, no company would ever send out a message that you would forwad to a certain amount of people, stupidest thing ever.

[Seb Hughes]

Offtopic: fix your footer size, its huge and its over 15kb (*45kb*)

how does one get an @msn email address?
www.msn.com, register for ti there then you will have @msn.com

[shah-ahmed]

Guys and Girls. Consider if you will that this discussion may help microsoft gauge the response to some new ideas or revisions of old ones in order to test their validity.

[Ben Smith]

Lol. I didn't see that date...

[tpspoons]

i know this is reviving an old thread, but i decided to post anyhow, im a skype guy myself but i got this email just now:

Hey it is Andy and john the directors of MSN, sorry for the interruption
but
msn is closing down. this is because too many inconsiderate people are
taking up all the name (eg making up lots of different accounts for just one
person), we only have 578 names left. If you would like to close your
account, DO NOT SEND THIS MESSAGE ON. If you would like to keep your
account, then SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. This is no
joke, we will be shutting down the servers. Send it on, thanks.
WHO EVER DOES NOT SEND THIS MESSEAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED AND YOU
WILL COST £10.00 A MONTH TO USE. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST.
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS or REPLAY. COPY THE
WHOLE EMAIL. GO BACK TO YOUR INBOX AND CLICK ON NEW. AND PASTE THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION
hey everyone, i dont normally send this sort of stuff out but had a look on
the internet and its actually true . On the 1st of november , we will have
to pay for the use of our MSN and email accounts unless we send this message
to at least 18 contacts on your contact list. It's no joke if you don't
believe me then go to the site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm
and see for yourself.
Anyways once you've sent this message to at least 18 contacts, your msn dude
will become blue. please copy and paste don't forward cos people won't take
notice of it.

Are you using the latest version of MSN Messenger? Click here to download MSN Messenger 7.5 today!

just if anyone is interested...

[JoshuaJonah]

this is BS

[tpspoons]

it does seem kinda unproffessional if its from the directors of MSN lol

[love police]

lmao!
SPAM!

[Krilnon]

Hey it is Andy and john the directors of MSN

I would have stopped reading after that (If I somehow missed the subject line).

[tpspoons]

i should of read the rest of the thread.... just noticed the date lol

[flashdick]

wow ! :stunned: i don't believe the number of people taking dis cr4p. they even have that on yahoo. I've seen that since like 6 years ago. :-/

[NoirWD]

That is so old, THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DELETE ANY ACCOUNTS OR START CHARGING!!!!


Noir

[phorte]

Stupid forward emails, so sick of them. I always harrass people who sent them too me, and ask em if there wish came true etc etc. But yeah, you would have to be a complete noob to believe that kinda stuff.

[evildrummer]

I Can't believe people actually read them, Ive been sent that hundreds of times! But more to the point why the hell would someone actually bother to write one and send it around!

[aveceva]

whoever wrote it didnt do a good job.


Hey it is Andy and john the directors of MSN, sorry for the interruption
but
msn is closing down. this is because too many inconsiderate people are
taking up all the name (eg making up lots of different accounts for just one
person), we only have 578 names left. If you would like to close your
account, DO NOT SEND THIS MESSAGE ON. If you would like to keep your
account, then SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. This is no
joke, we will be shutting down the servers. Send it on, thanks.
WHO EVER DOES NOT SEND THIS MESSEAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED AND YOU
WILL COST £10.00 A MONTH TO USE. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST.
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS or REPLAY. COPY THE
WHOLE EMAIL. GO BACK TO YOUR INBOX AND CLICK ON NEW. AND PASTE THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION


Here's how Tom would have done it:

Dear MSN/Hotmail user,

I am writing on behalf of MSN Corporate LTD to inform you that your MSN service will be closing shortly. MSN and MSN messenger services will in future, be incurring a fee on its users when relaunched on *date*.

As a result, we will be initiating a systematic deletion of MSN accounts, starting on *date*. If you do not wish for your account to be deleted, you must send this email to at least 13 other MSN users in order to declare on our database, that you are in fact currently, using this account. This is to eliminate static accounts that are not currently being used.

We apologize for any problems,
John *Last name*
*Position @ MSN corporate*
*department*

*office location*

--------

more to the point:

1. why would the directors be mailing it out?
2. why would the directors be mailing it out addressing it from BOTH of them..?
3. how the heck is mailing 13 people going to do anything? its not going to show up or change your msn's icon. EVER. it's an email. Hotmail can probably check that you've sent 13 mails that day...along with the 20 billion othe rpeople....
4. only dip****s type in caps for more than 2 words.
5. if you fell for this, go kill yourself. please.


lawl.

[v2ikematu]

I like chainletters :love:

One of the best:

Mike was a small time flash-coder. One day he recieved this e-mail, PM'ed it to every one he know at kirupa.com and after 4 days he was the master of Flash and ActionScript.
This is no JOKE!!!
Send this message to everyone you know at kirupa forums (at least 10 people or you kirupa account will be deleted, this also NO JOKE) and after a week or so you'll be probably The King Of Flash & Actionscript! Really! And you can even download a nice AS editor for your PC at www.sepy.it but only if you forward it!

Best wishes,
Mr. Joshimatsumoto
Chairman of Wonderful Flash Kings of The East

[senocular]

wow, thats retarded haha

[rollala]

i got that from a friend too... but did a search and it's bullsh***

[Seb Hughes]

For the love of god, This is from 2001 the article. THERE NOT GOING TO CHARGE.

[kritikal]

I don't think you guys understood what the article was about. MSN wanted to offer premium services back then which they did for a while, ie bigger inbox, calender and some other things that I don't remember. That's what the article means by
Microsoft is reportedly planning to start charging surfers for the improved services of its MSN internet portal. and
We will build extra services into MSN and start monetising this within a year

the email is a hoax but the article isn't/

[Seb Hughes]

I don't think you guys understood what the article was about. MSN wanted to offer premium services back then which they did for a while, ie bigger inbox, calender and some other things that I don't remember. That's what the article means by and

the email is a hoax but the article isn't/

THE ARTICLE IS 5 DAM YEARS OLD :shifty:

[hybrid101]

^we noticed...
this is complete BS, why would people send out these letters anyway, it's a complete waste of time!