MSN bot idol
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All right, this one is pure commercials, but it’s worth telling you that MSN is launching a new competition with $40,000 reward. That’s a full scholarship, would you say, or that you could reinvest it in your next dotcom company. Yep, but the top prize is a $10,000 Alienware workstation.
Doesn’t sound so sexy anymore, does it? Nonetheless, this could lead a lot of kids to register, and that’s exactly what Microsoft wants, new passionate users, besides the fact that its scouts could chase new talents.
What is it about? Programming, showing off your excellency in coding, demonstrating that a lot can be done with the recently released MSN software developer toolkit (SDK). The goal is to create an add-in to the MSN messenger, that MSN calls “bots”.
This way, within a snap, MSN Live Messenger would have a bunch of new features, to nail competitors IM and (maybe) to suffocate Skype if some VoIP bots are created for the occasion.
Some people say programming is a story of passion, that GNU/Linux could have never existed without it, and the passion doesn’t know any rivals. Welcome to Microsoft’s world, cash-supported. When you want something, you just pay for it.
May 17, 2006 | By Nuno
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