Wow chain mails have got creative. Any intelligent people here will detect my sarcasm.
1. Microsoft *will not* do this. No company will sponsor any kind of beta-testing with tens of thousands of dollars per person without some damn good feedback information which brings me to---
2. Ahh, what kind of beta test would this BE? Is it a beta test of some magical trojan code that triggers a backdoor when it goes through the Windows IP stack?? Is it a hole in Windows that monitors Outlook email? Come up with any answer to this question and I guarantee it's something they wouldn't like to tell their general customers. After all: who wants to hear that the chief provider of their operating system technology has the ability, and is, monitoring your email and other communication??
3. Even if Microsoft had completely lost their proprietary secretive ways in light of informing the public of their agenda, whether it be for evil or good, they would need very complete legal rules. As it is this would qualify as a contest, and contests can be exploited. Microsoft would not let a beta test be exploited for anyone else's good but their own. And by the way the letter has no legal meaning whatsoever. It includes no guarantees of reward, no contact information, no rules of any kind. This isn't something the richest technology company in the world would send out. Let alone inform a 'General Manager' of a freight transportation company about it (while not telling anyone important who would get MS some interesting information). To the first forwarder (or at least the first forwarder to add his own spam): you and your network of about 100 (in any method of distribution it's about 100 because all are around $245) people should seriously think about not being cattle anymore. This isn't real people! And also, if Microsoft were to give twenty-four grand to *anyone*, you would be straight-up foolish not to tell people right? THen those people tell others and soon your a local celebrity. Local celebrities get attention from local news places, which get attention from larger news places. Soon your on national TV because Microsoft gave you twenty-four thousand dollars. Sure, that doesn't *always* happen, but do you realize how rare it is for a corporation to give out twenty-four grand to the first person that forwards an email??
People need to think before they click send these days because you are making social life on the internet Hell for us intelligent people who do NOT like being cattle.
