Re: Beta anti spyware

From: Philly lawyer (Phillylawyer_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/20/05

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    Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 05:41:03 -0800

    Okay, you got me-I did sign up to receive notices from Microsoft about
    updates and so forth, so technically, whatever I received from them was not
    "unsolicited." However, I unequivocally did not sign up to be invited to
    participate in any testing of software so, in that sense, it was indeed
    unsolicited. The point is that the e-mail did not mention anything about
    testing, and the download site only explains about what is really going on if
    you search pretty hard for it and know what you're searching for.

    And once again, it is really unnecessary to insult me or anybody else who
    may not be as knowledgeable as you and other experts with the suggestion that
    any fool would know enough to look it up in the dictionary or whatever.
    Maybe this supercilious and condescending attitude is some sort of computer
    geek cultural thing, I don't know, but it's a real waste of everybody's time.
     If you or any of the other posters have some useful knowledge to impart,
    that's great, please help people like me out, otherwise, keep it to yourself.

    Anyway, I had no reason to try to look up the meaning of the word "Beta"
    since I thought I knew what it was, i.e., simply part of the name of the
    product. However, it's clearly a software developer's term of art and all
    you experts should not expect the non-experts like me to understand the
    secret meaning, anymore than I would think you were ignorant for not
    understanding certain legal terms of art that I use on an almost daily basis.
      Why should you? In any event, for Microsoft to induce average users to
    download and use a product that is by its own definition not ready for
    general distribution and use without a very clear explanation up front is
    just plain stupid on its part.

    "Shenan Stanley" wrote:

    > Philly lawyer wrote:
    > > Thanks for the explanation. I had no idea that this was a "test"
    > > version of the program. I, and probably millions of other
    > > unsuspecting users, received an unsolicited e-mail from Microsoft
    > > that raved about its new anti-spyware program and suggested I
    > > download it to "Try it Now!"
    >
    > First of, if you received an email from Microsoft, it was not unsolicited.
    > If you did not sign up for email from Microsoft and you tik you received
    > one - you got spam from someone else - likely someone phishing.
    >
    > When I don't know the meaning of a word/term - I go here:
    >
    > http://www.dictionary.com/
    > and/or here:
    > http://www.google.com/
    > and/or here:
    > http://www.webopedia.com/
    >
    > --
    > <- Shenan ->
    > --
    > The information is provided "as is", it is suggested you research for
    > yourself before you take any advice - you are the one ultimately
    > responsible for your actions/problems/solutions. Know what you are
    > getting into before you jump in with both feet.
    >
    >
    >

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