[Am-info] Fwd: Leaked M$ papers!

[Fred A. Miller]

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Here's the link to the leaked M$ papers taken from the NOC servers.

http://remus.softimage.net/index.html

Most of these documents are at least a couple or years old.  They include
details about the method used to gain access to the site.  Other articles
include some emails from billg, a lot from Ballmer, and serveral others s=
uch
as development and marketing teams.

I personally found the MSNBC section of "Microsoft Projects Details" of
interest.  Proving, at least, to myself that M$ is in the business of
controlling the media on a fairly large scale and using the once reputabl=
e
NBC news agency as a quasi-advertising and marketing agent (pity but not
surprising).  It gives some insite into M$' goals concerning MSNBC:

"MSNBC.com is the Microsoft-NBC joint venture whose charter is to lead th=
e
 web with coverage of breaking news in general news, sports, business, an=
d
 other categories, such as health, entertainment, local, weather, and so =
on.=20
 Over the past year, it has consistently beaten CNN.com in market share a=
nd
 recently has eclipsed CNN Networks as a whole, too.  MSNBC has been
consistently growing at about 100% per year.  Generally, the strategy of
MSNBC is to leverage its access to air-time, promotions, and tie-ins to M=
SNBC
Cable, NBC News, and NBC Sports to draw users from other media into MSNBC=
 and
thence to MSN.  Along the way, MSNBC seeks to monetize this traffic and h=
as
been very success[ful] at developing and deploying new advertising and
revenue-generating features on the web site"

Also I found the section on the same page about WebTV interesting as well=
:
According to the author:

"WebTV appears to be doubling every year, with as many as 12K new subscri=
bers
per day.  WebTV user demographics fit US demographics very well suggestin=
g a
strong penetration into non-PC households.  WebTV's number one support ca=
ll
issue is billing."

Hmmm, didn't WebTV flop and fold?  As well relating to WebTV under the
subsection "Architecture" they describe the need for an "Electronic Progr=
am
Guide Service" with "Sun E450's with lots of disks in parenthesis.  And t=
hen
we get some insights to the vaunted Passport - which talks about cookies =
and
their types of authentications using SSL, encrypted using Passport key, a=
nd
encrypted using keys via Nexus data.  I do believe that Passport has been
preported to be highly insecure, so one has to wonder about the mentionin=
g of
SSL and encryption.... hmmm!  Other interesting reads include "Hotmail: U=
nix
to Windows", "Project Alladin" and a few others.

One might wonder,... Is their more?  Were more than just these documents
available and downloaded?  I could be very very wrong in the assumption t=
hat
perhaps, just perhaps there maybe more that is presented.  It would behov=
e
some people not to expose certain communque's because it would A) promote
those that have gained access to any other documents to avoid any possibl=
e
negative actions form the Beast, and/or B) by holding back certain key
documents attained it would throw M$ of balance as to just what was expos=
ed
and taken and make it possible for M$ competitors to use any knowledge fr=
om
sources found on the M$ site to be used strategically in dealing with the
Beast.  I'd be curious to know if there's anymore.

Anyway, take a look.  And let us know if you come across any other docume=
nts
not revealed at this site.

Cheers, Curtis

- --=20
"DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content
that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints." -=
Paul=20
Rickard

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