Ann: Meta Tag Maker 2002 adds Google Bot support and runs special promotion.

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MD WebsUnlimited.com

Webs Unlimited, Inc -- the leader in FrontPage add-ins and component tools for FrontPage is happy to announce a free update of Meta Tag Maker 2002. The standard by which other meta tag software aspires to.

We are proud to announce a FREE update to the existing ten of thousand of customers of Meta Tag Maker 2002. To download your FREE update please go to http://www.websunlimited.com/downloadservice An for those of you that you would like to take a look at Meta Tag Maker we are offering a special promotion and selling Meta Tag Maker for only $20.00 from now until the 28th of February 2003. To make advantage of this special offer enter the Promo code MTMFEB at your check out. This is a limited time offer that will end on February 28, 2004. As always, we offer a full 30 day money back guarantee.

Thank you,

Webs Unlimited, Inc.
The leading in FrontPage Addins since 1997
 
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MD WebsUnlimited.com

We have no known issues with the full product in FP 2003, FP 2002, and FP
2000 and Microsoft has not contacted us in regards to any. Meta Tag Maker
has been in production for over 4 years and as been on the MS Add-in
download for the last 3. The KB refers you to the Meta Tag Maker demo on the
MS addin site which we have never updated with MS. It is possible that the
demo may have a problem in FrontPage 2003 but we have not had any reports of
any problems. If you are having problem with the demo or retail product we
urge you to contact us.

Also, this has an odor about it seeing as how the KB was posted to the MS KB
on 2/4/2004 at 4:05:18am and we just started competing with Jim Cheshire's
(Jimco), a Microsoft employee, Meta Power; Meta Power is sold at retail
through the FrontPage Tools web site. Jim is a member of MS Product Support
Services teams and I would assume has access to the KB systems and / or
friends within the MS organization that do.

<HTML><HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>817131 - Error Message in FrontPage After You Install Meta Tag Maker
2002</TITLE>
<!-- (c) 2001, 2002 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved -->
<!-- CPMSFTWBSUBP02 ASM: GSS, Version=3.7.4.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=null FW: 1.1.4322.573 -->
<!-- REGC: ISO-8859-1 DEFRC: utf-8 RESG: 2/4/2004 4:05:18 AM RESX: 1/1/0001
12:00:00 AM -->

If Jim did not influenced the KB post we offer our apologies. However, we
hold that just by the fact of Jim being an MS employee and his entering into
the commercial software market with a competing product does smack of
impropriety and reflects badly upon Microsoft.


--
Mike -- FrontPage MVP '97-'02
http://www.websunlimited.com
Need to add Meta Tags to your web pages NOW with Google Bot controls.
http://www.websunlimited.com/order/Product/MTM2002/mtm2002_help_dir.htm
FrontPage Add-ins Since '97 2003 / 2002 / 2000 Compatible


Problem Causer said:
Microsoft says your product causes problems:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817131


----- MD WebsUnlimited.com wrote: -----

Webs Unlimited, Inc -- the leader in FrontPage add-ins and component
Click to expand...
tools for FrontPage is happy to announce a free update of Meta Tag Maker
2002. The standard by which other meta tag software aspires to.
 
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John Jansen \(MSFT\)

Just to clarify:

This article was drafted in April of last year and published in August. The
issue was discovered through our Watson data (when you click to "Tell
Microsoft about this issue" we get some information). In the Beta of
FrontPage 2003 we had a number of crashes that were occuring in this
WebsUnlimited DLL.

It looks like this issue was fixed by an update to the DLL made last year,
but the article is meant to prevent people who do not have the update from
calling into Product Support at Microsoft and wasting their time.

Suggesting that Jim had anything to do with this article, or that he is in
someway trying to use the Knowledge Base to keep people from ordering your
product is just not accurate.

There are notes in the case that say we tried email and phone, as well as
sent you the stack trace as best as we could narrow it down, but that these
attempts were not answered, so we had to go ahead and just write the
article.

Mike, if you'd like you can email me and I can try to find the stack trace
to verify that this is fixed, then we can change the language of the KB to
point toward your updated DLL.
 
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MD Websunlimited

Hi John,

Thank you for that information. As we stated, if that was the case then we
apologize to Jim. We still, however, believe that it is improper for an
employee of Microsoft to develop and offer for retail sale a competitive
product. Especially, when that individual has the influence and means to
affect the support of the competing ISV by Microsoft. Even if that
individual is held in the highest regards, it still can have the perception
of impropriety. It is hard to believe that Microsoft would even allow its
employees to engage in such activities.

There is no mention in that KB of it being related to beta software. It is
our position that the KB should be removed immediately.

Mike -- FrontPage MVP '97 -02
http://www.websunlimited.com
 

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