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RE: RE: Personal reactions to recent news
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Originally posted by jpg050
If they lose money because it's free for us and expensive, why did M$ create it in the first way ? I buy a newspaper to read it, what was M$ obtaining when creating it ? They did it to kill the others, then, when no one uses the others, I'll charge them (soon to come in you Windows desktop). That's no "poor me, I'm losing money". If you're losing money, close it.

Microsoft get a lot of revenue from Messenger... they have banner ads, tabs, and extensive links to other .NET and microsoft related stuff like the MSN Gaming Zone and Hotmail.  It also adds to the Windows sales marginally because that's another thing that you can't do on another platform.

Microsoft gets none of these benefits if a Linux/Mac user uses the .NET Messenger Service, or if windows users use a 3rd party client.  They still have to provide the extra server coverage though.  It's only natural that they should charge if other people want to use a client without all the ms advertising schemes.

However I agree that the chances are, they thought when they started the service, "We can afford to let 3rd party software use our servers, but if it's not worth it for us one day it'll get us extra money from all the people who would pay to stay part of the network" :dodgy:
It's all part of staying on top... they've given messenger lots of users (encouraging others to join them or stay because that's what all their friends are on) now they need to give their client more users.  It's an investment MS has made and has full right to collect the full capital on.
09-17-2003 05:01 PM
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Personal reactions to recent news - by Patchou on 09-15-2003 at 05:03 AM
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RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by Chrono on 09-15-2003 at 05:37 AM
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RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by Wabz on 09-16-2003 at 12:33 AM
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RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by volkl on 09-16-2003 at 09:27 AM
RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by Johnny_Mac on 09-16-2003 at 11:24 AM
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RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by mikelc2 on 09-24-2003 at 05:27 AM
RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by Patchou on 09-24-2003 at 08:05 PM
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RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by mikelc2 on 09-25-2003 at 03:54 AM
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RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by Chrono on 09-25-2003 at 04:17 AM
RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by mikelc2 on 09-25-2003 at 04:34 AM
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RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by volkl on 09-25-2003 at 11:37 PM
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RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by Sk3tch on 09-26-2003 at 05:57 AM
RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by kangie on 09-26-2003 at 11:46 AM
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RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by Underlord on 09-26-2003 at 12:05 PM
RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by chris on 09-27-2003 at 01:11 AM
RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by jpg050 on 09-27-2003 at 10:17 AM
RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by The UnKnOwN on 09-29-2003 at 03:40 PM
RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by fluffy_lobster on 09-29-2003 at 06:03 PM
RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by Ardham on 09-29-2003 at 07:56 PM
RE: RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by fluffy_lobster on 09-29-2003 at 08:14 PM
RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by jpg050 on 09-29-2003 at 11:06 PM
RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by wipey on 09-30-2003 at 02:08 PM
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RE: Personal reactions to recent news - by Patchou on 10-27-2003 at 06:44 PM
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