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To: Vendit™ who wrote (29001)8/10/1999 12:02:00 AM
From: Annette  Read Replies (1) of 41369
 
OT---
LOL...this was in my email....
Did you hear the news....
> >
> > MICROSOFT TO SELL AD SPACE IN ERROR MESSAGES
> >
> > Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced that
> > it
> > is selling advertising space in
> the error
> > messages
> > that appear in Windows.
> Acknowledging for
> > the
> > first time that the average user of their
> > operating system encounters error
> > messages at
> > least several times a day, Microsoft is
> > trying to
> > take financial advantage of the
> > unavoidable
> > opportunity to make an ad impression.
> >
> > "We estimate that throughout the world at
> > any given moment several million people
> > are
> > getting a `General Protection Fault' or
> >` Illegal
> > Operation' warning. We will be able to
> > generate
> > significant revenue by including a short
> > advertising message along with it," said
> > Microsoft
> > marketing director Nathan Mirror. He also
> > mentioned that Microsoft is intended to
> > add banner
> > ads into its Blue Screen of Death in the> >near
> > future.
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