I got an email a few weeks back, which was supposedly sent from Microsoft, claiming to sell Windows XP Pro (w/ SP2 already included) for like $60 or somewhere around there.
I thought pretty heavily about taking the offer up, but became extremely leery about it when I took a few things into consideration. Those being:
A. The email address of the sender was just simply
[email protected] (ex.
[email protected]). I mean, c'mon....what kind of corporation the size of Microsoft would give their employees email addresses like that??
B. The fact that the local retailers are still charging the 'normal' price ($150-$200 range) for what they have on their shelves.
C. The fact that even though the ordering webpage threw up a disclaimer notification stating that their page is secure and all personal information would be encrypted upon sending, the actual order form page itself did not have the little golden lock down on the bottom of the browser window.
I didn't bother notifying Microsoft about this, though. Mainly because I didn't think of it until I saw this thread.
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