sllort's Journal: Microsoft removes "User Vote" section from License

You may all remember this story where ZDNet caught Microsoft employees emailing each other a reminder to vote in a .NET vs. Java poll in order to influence the results. Well, last week's story about Microsoft's new CIFS license linked to the license which allowed users to rate it. Not surprisingly, many Slashdot users decided it would be a great idea to vote in the poll in order to influence the results. Finding this amusing in an ironic sort of way, I proceeded to egg everyone on a little.

You might be interested to note that Microsoft has quietly removed user voting results from the License.

Update: 04/08/2002:
Wakko is right. Maybe their ASP server was just crashed? Maybe someone at Microsoft reads my journal religously (most likely the case). Anyway, before writing this story I got a MS-SQL error when attempting to rate the document. Now, four hours later, the results are back. Maybe their software is just flaky.

Right now, the document is rated:
Rate this page: 21454 users 1.2 out of 5

now that's classic!

[jeffy124]

too cool. amazes me how MS's own tactics came back to bite them in the, well, you know where. any idea what the results were before it was removed?

Sllort, you're my god.

[$uperjay]

Not because of this, though. This is just funny.

Huh?

[Wakko Warner]

The results were still there at the top of the page when I clicked on it just now. 1.2 out of 5.

- A.P.