MSAS and tracking cookies..........

[plun]

Tracking cookies in beta 2....................

Finally, MSN would gain access to a system with in-depth knowledge of
consumer behavior on the Internet. Claria's software is installed on an
estimated 40 million desktops and is designed to monitor people's
actions, behaviors, likes and dislikes in order to display targeted
ads.

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+said+...+Claria/2100-1030_3-5769583.html?tag=nefd.top

Well, dear Billg cant you sell this MSN "horsefeathers" and only be a
great software company.

 

[Anonymous Bob]

Tracking cookies in beta 2....................

Finally, MSN would gain access to a system with in-depth knowledge of
consumer behavior on the Internet. Claria's software is installed on an
estimated 40 million desktops and is designed to monitor people's
actions, behaviors, likes and dislikes in order to display targeted
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+said+...+Claria/2100-1030_3-5769583.html?tag=nefd.top

Well, dear Billg cant you sell this MSN "horsefeathers" and only be a
great software company.

Also this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/t...1b5308190&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

[...]
The offer price on the table as recently as yesterday was $500
million, according to people who have been briefed on the talks. But
a person close to Microsoft said last night that the negotiations
were on the verge of breaking off.
One person briefed on the deal said there was opposition within
Microsoft to the acquisition.
[...]
Both Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, and Bill Gates,
the chairman, have been involved in that debate inside the company,
according to that person.
[...]
Mr. Ballmer, according to the person briefed on the talks, had been
pushing Yusuf Mehdi, the senior vice president in charge of MSN and
Microsoft's search business, to be more aggressive in closing the
gap with Google, including making acquisitions. And Mr. Ballmer,
this person said, gave approval to begin negotiations with Claria
two weeks ago.
[...]

I hope they all realize what a pr nightmare this would be. The
absurdity of having antispyware in beta and purchasing Gator...oh,
I'm sorry...it's Claria now. Mindboggling!

Bob Vanderveen

 

[plun]

Anonymous Bob expressed precisely :

I hope they all realize what a pr nightmare this would be. The
absurdity of having antispyware in beta and purchasing Gator...oh,
I'm sorry...it's Claria now. Mindboggling!

Bob Vanderveen

Well, this is totally crazy...................... >:|

MSN must be desperate and the problem for them is that todays
well educated users see the low quality MSN brings to them.

Must install Kazaa and make MS happy............ Þ

Then I will get this supreme products bundled with Kazaa

 

[Anonymous Bob]

Anonymous Bob expressed precisely :

Well, this is totally crazy...................... >:|

MSN must be desperate and the problem for them is that todays
well educated users see the low quality MSN brings to them.

Must install Kazaa and make MS happy............ Þ

Then I will get this supreme products bundled with Kazaa

plun,

One of those articles did say that Claria terminated or was in the
process of terminating their agreements.

But still, can we trust Microsoft/Claria/Gator to provide an
anti-spyware program, anti-virus or firewall? Can we trust
Microsoft/Claria/Gator to protect our privacy? Should Microsoft.com
remain in the trusted zone? What would be downloaded when we ran
windowsupdate?

Bob Vanderveen

 

[plun]

Anonymous Bob was thinking very hard :

But still, can we trust Microsoft/Claria/Gator to provide an
anti-spyware program, anti-virus or firewall? Can we trust
Microsoft/Claria/Gator to protect our privacy? Should Microsoft.com
remain in the trusted zone? What would be downloaded when we ran
windowsupdate?

Nope, I believe and this is the reason why MS removed tracking cookies
from
Giants version, and this is the "MSN problem" in a nut shell, MSN will
always
be within a grey zone desperately hunting new users until users realize
that MSN is a low quality service.

 

[Anonymous Bob]

The Trusted Computing Initiative is dead.

 

[plun]

Anonymous Bob laid this down on his screen :

The Trusted Computing Initiative is dead.

Nope, it believe that inside MS this is a battle between security
and MSN behavior. In the end "the bad guys" will show MS that they must
choose "trustworthy computing"...........

And this is also Bill Gs vision but MS is really big wit a lot of
directors and managers :')

 

[OldBoy]

Anonymous Bob laid this down on his screen :

Nope, it believe that inside MS this is a battle between security
and MSN behavior. In the end "the bad guys" will show MS that they must
choose "trustworthy computing"...........

And this is also Bill Gs vision but MS is really big wit a lot of
directors and managers :')

Another scenario: MS is buying out the bad guys.........

Jan

 

[Anonymous Bob]

Another scenario: MS is buying out the bad guys.........

I would think there would have to be a healthy ROI to invest
$500,000,000.

Bob Vanderveen

 

[plun]

OldBoy explained :

Another scenario: MS is buying out the bad guys.........

Well, with an open browser with open ways that also MSN uses,
and other "business" partners there always be new bad guys..........

Its all about Money and MSN (MS) cannot probably buy Google
(your best friend ) which is most irritating for them.

So we have a lot of directors that will loose there beutiful
tracking cookies statistics shown in pies and other diagrams :')

We dont need this garbage !

Latest MSN toolbar is really great, you can have each of
your high quality web page in different tabs.)

- Google
- Weather
- News
- Favorite forum
etc

:')

 

[Guest]

CLARIA IS BEING PURCHASED BY MSFT BUT ONLY TO? USE IT?
CLEAN THEM OUT? USE THE BEST PASTS? USE THER TRACKING?
DEAL SHOULD HAPPEN AS CLARIA HAS NO BACKING.

 

[Anonymous Bob]

CLARIA IS BEING PURCHASED BY MSFT BUT ONLY TO? USE IT?
CLEAN THEM OUT? USE THE BEST PASTS? USE THER TRACKING?
DEAL SHOULD HAPPEN AS CLARIA HAS NO BACKING.

Mote point:
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3519521

and please don't shout.

Bob Vanderveen