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January 21, 2006
Logo Theft, Domain Theft and Booty Theft
This made me chuckle. MSN Spaces, Microsoft's foray into the blogging world, not only uses a logo that very closely resembles a popular Linux distribution (the operating system that poses the greatest threat to their monopoly of the desktop PC market), but an easily-confused domain for the popular blogging service takes the unwary visitor to a site containing (considerably explicit) adult content.
The logo inspiration was first spotted last year. Compare the MSN Spaces logo below with that of Ubuntu, a popular Linux distribution that prides itself in taking the once notoriously complicated operating system and packaging it as "Linux for human beings".
Additionally, the domain Microsoft have chosen for the MSN Spaces service, spaces.msn.com, is not the most intuitive. Sometimes when companies launch an online service, they purchase related domain names in order to prevent people from capitalising on mistyped URLs. I guess Microsoft missed out on the msn.spaces.com domain (warning: contains material that even I consider offensive, and I have a higher tolerance level than most people). Is that what you call karma?
I've deemed the site too offensive to link to; you'll have to copy and paste it yourself if you want to explore.
Oh, and would you like a butt-plug with that?
Tags: Microsoft, MSN Spaces, Ubuntu, Linux, logo
Posted by mattymcg at January 21, 2006 04:21 PMHAHA maybe that site's ran by M$, i like the "THIS DOMAIN IS FOR SALE" in the corner, who do you think that's aimed at (:
Posted by: johnie1 at January 23, 2006 06:12 AM