Microsoft, continuing its flight from comprehensible version numbers, has decided to call the version of Windows code named “Whistler” Windows XP. The next version of Microsoft office will be called Office XP. And today a thousand jokes were born.
When you link to a page at Amazon.com as an affiliate these days, the user is no longer taken directly to that product’s page. Instead, an intervening page is inserted promoting other items related to that item. The question I have is whether you get the full referral fee if the user buys a related item instead of the linked item. It seems like they’re kind of ripping off their affiliates to me. Of course, since I haven’t earned any affiliate money in ages, I don’t really care.
Microsoft’s Product Activation copy protection scheme seems like it will put a real damper on Windows XP andf Office XP upgrades. Microsoft introduced it quite some time ago in regions of the world with lots of software piracy (Asia), and they’re going global with it for their new products. I think it sucks.