Microsoft’s Snitch Program Dies

Seattle P-I: Microsoft admits prize program was ‘stupid’. The notification program — which has been discontinued, the company said — raised suspicions among computer makers and corporate users that the company was reporting customers to the FBI or to software watchdogs as possible license violators. And the prize program seemed to some computer makers to be a continuation of Microsoft’s heavy-handed business practices.

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