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Microsoft Paying Bloggers to Write about Internet Explorer
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#22There's nothing new under the sun. On several websites i visit it's become increasingly difficult to tell whether or not someone is a paid marketer (giving rise to parodies thereof, and consequently Poe's law).
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If you actually read the page linked from the Facebook post, you will realize this is false.
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#24While I can understand some of the concerns here, I'd encourage you to look at where Internet Explorer is now; it's come a long way in the past few years.
IE today offers a brand new experience with many different features. The reworked Internet Explorer lets you search smarter and do more with its cool new features, such as multitasking, pinnable sites, and full-screen browsing.
Wherever you are, Internet Explorer is the ideal way to play games, catch up on your reading, watch videos, and browse the web, of course. Use fast and fluid Internet Explorer across all your Windows devices—tablet, Windows Phone, and TV with an Xbox with an Xbox Live Gold subscription.
This program is really a great way for bloggers and HN commenters to spread the word about the new Internet Explorer web experience in a cool, visual way. There's also opportunities for fun prizes and rewards through duration of the program.
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#25What's really amazing is how lackluster the whole campaign is. IE is a touted as a "new browser", but here are the features they are especially proud of:
1) Full Screen Browsing.
2) Multitasking, which apparently means "Skype while full screen browsing".
3) Reading view, a la the Readability or Clearly plug ins.
4) Pinned sites, which I guess I don't understand, but it looks like Windows 8 tiles.
Do I qualify for a payment?
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#26While I can understand some of the concerns here, I'd encourage you to look at where Internet Explorer is now; it's come a long way in the past few years. IE today offers a brand new experience with many different features. The reworked Internet Explorer lets you search smarter and do more with its cool new features, such as multitasking, pinnable sites, and full-screen browsing. Wherever you are, Internet Explorer i…
I'm upvoting you for clever parody. I think [1].
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#27This seems vaguely familiar to me... Remember when they paid to port apps to windows phone?
Paying developers to port their apps is completely legitamete. It's a chicken and egg problem. Users don't want to use the platform because there are few apps, but developers don't want to write apps because there are few users. If Microsoft can spend some money to get additional apps in the store it's just a business decision. In my opinion they should have dedicated more money to that program. This on the other han…
It's not quite as slimy as, say, Samsung paying for fake grassroots badmouthing of competing products [1], but it's little different from fake user reviews on Amazon, unless the blogger discloses upfront, in a very visible way, that it's a paid-for post.
Nothing wrong with rewarding developers for porting app to your platform, there is nothing deceptive or otherwise unethical about it.
1: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/04/17/samsung-fake-web-rev...
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#28While I can understand some of the concerns here, I'd encourage you to look at where Internet Explorer is now; it's come a long way in the past few years. IE today offers a brand new experience with many different features. The reworked Internet Explorer lets you search smarter and do more with its cool new features, such as multitasking, pinnable sites, and full-screen browsing. Wherever you are, Internet Explorer i…
At least try to make is sound like a real comment rather than copy and pasted marketing verbiage. Unless this is satire...
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#29While I can understand some of the concerns here, I'd encourage you to look at where Internet Explorer is now; it's come a long way in the past few years. IE today offers a brand new experience with many different features. The reworked Internet Explorer lets you search smarter and do more with its cool new features, such as multitasking, pinnable sites, and full-screen browsing. Wherever you are, Internet Explorer i…
Whatever Microsoft is paying you, it is not enough.
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#30Why am I getting a Déjà vu? I've seen the "Go TechCrunch" comment before. This looks like a repost to me.
It's just that Mike Arrington, whose posts on TC have been some good money printers for many startups of the fund he went on creating, likes to bash who is more naïve and less expert than he is at monetizing or rewarding Web contents.
So, yes, he's probably repeating himself somehow, here.