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Shutters come down on free photos for MSN | |
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| Time: 06:38 EST/11:38 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Bill Roach | ||
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Attention MSN Photo users: you have two weeks to subscribe to MSN 8 or download your photos if you don't want to lose them. On 22 May, MSN is planning to offer its photo service only to subscribers of MSN 8, an Internet service that bundles online services such as email and instant messaging with dial-up access for a monthly charge. Currently people do not have to pay to store photos with MSN Photo. The move is the latest effort by MSN to turn formerly free services into paid ones. MSN already has started to charge for some services that used to be free, including extra storage in Hotmail inboxes. In an attempt to get more paying customers, Microsoft has said it intends to make other services exclusive to MSN 8 subscribers. | ||
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| #1 By 14158 (170.12.2.132) at 5/7/2003 12:31:56 PM |
| And so it begins... |
| #2 By 37 (66.82.20.150) at 5/7/2003 2:41:57 PM |
| MSN had photo storage? ;-) |
| #3 By 14158 (65.32.172.25) at 5/7/2003 5:23:42 PM |
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James,
I do understand that a good business model must make money to continue operation. My comment was more of a general statement about how the internet is moving away from an advertisement revenue to a more fee based business. Many of us, yourself included I'm sure, have put up with pop-ups, spam, and general annoyances of many sites with the understanding that this was our payment for the information and services they provide. I just feel that they could have limited the free service to less storage and limited bandwidth without having to close the doors completely. And now that MS has made this move, I'm sure the other similar services (Yahoo, etc..) will follow suite, since they don't need to keep the old model to compete any longer. In any case, I understand the move, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. :~)- |
| #4 By 14158 (170.12.2.132) at 5/9/2003 2:13:54 PM |
| I never used FreeDrive.com, but I did use USA.NET for email forwarding. Free Email for life was their campaign. I guess my life was a lot shorter than I had originally planned. :~)- |
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