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Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Microsoft admits prize program was ‘stupid’

If you were hoping to get yourself the grill or watch for giving
up your local “naked-PC”-selling vendor, you’re out of luck:
Microsoft has killed the “admittedly stupid” program.

“Microsoft spokesman Matt Pilla said the program was ‘a
super-brief pilot program that was admittedly stupid but absolutely
didn’t share information’ with law enforcers. ‘It was just an
opportunity to contact customers to explain the limits of their
site licenses.'”

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