Service charges.

[Fishi3]

I just got a email that I don't much trust. It's one of those chain letters so normally I wouldn't even read it

The gist of it is that it claims that MS is planning on making MSN and Hotmail pay per use services and discontinuing the free service. I have trouble crediting that as a valid statement as such a monumntal change couldn't be put into place without notification in advance by MS. The letter said the change was going to happen sometime in June. Has anyone heard anything about such a thing?

[Jairyn]

Never trust Chain Letters. Ever.

The general internet populous as a whole are morons and will send off anything they can to people so Johnny Q Fartknock or Jane D'oh doesn't get killed or they find true love rather than being old witches, or whatever.

It's all spammy crap.

[Fishi3]

That was my opinion as well but when it comes to MS well I tend to question and I wouldn't put it past them to make a pay service out of something they promised would always be a free service. So I thought I's ask if anyone else had heard this.

[Arcblade]

It sounds fake, anyway, there would be a big controversy if anything like that ever happens

[Mivat]

Simple rule of thumb: Microsoft doesn't send out that type of letters, and definately NOT by using chain-letters. Besides, you'd have people going apeshit about it all over blogs and other community-pages if it WAS true.

Yay for spamfilters.

[Fishi3]

No the letter doesn't claim to be a MS official anything. It's written as a reaction letter. Lets face it we've all seen reaction letters. They tend to be emotional and have bad grammar, spelling. In any case I think this was a joke. A bad joke but a joke.

[Reet]

Seems about as plausible as that time there was that hysteria about the post office charging postage for your emails...