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Originally posted by scastle
1) How? I thought the chat rooms were free?
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See Graham's post above - they will in future run services that are not free.
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2) Most corporations do this,
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After realising that it's not as easy as they thought to make money out of the internet. I will never pay for an online service while there's a free alternative, so M$ will not be getting my cash just because they pull the plug on their free service.
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3) I don't know about Microsoft, but where I work, we enforce some rules purely so if there is a problem, we can hold our hands up and say "well, we have procedures in place to prevent this" to the relevant authorities. I think a lot of companies do this.
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I don't think they have been enforcing any rules in many of these chat rooms. Given the massive and expensive job that would be, switching them off is the easier and cheaper option.
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I have to admit, I don't use the Microsoft Chat rooms, so it doesn't affect me whether they are open or closed. It would be nice for Microsoft to stop dressing up an attempt to save money as a humanitarian gesture though.
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hear hear!