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I think the reviewer got it wrong myself
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24 2012 @ 03:27 PM EDT

After all - in all those analagous examples, there is something good to be had.

For a Million bucks - cutting football field grass with toenail clippers..... a million bucks a year is a pretty good salary to get no matter how boring/monotonous/ridiculous the job might be.

Microsoft's historical exchanges have always been promises of something good with never a follow up on the promise.

So that would be the promise of a million bucks to cut the football field grass with toenail clippers, the million bucks to be paid at the end, you carry out the bargain to the letter, and the other side finds some way to avoid paying you the million bucks.

Like when MS set up that promotional "Smoked by Windows Phone" test and they found ways around following up on their end of the bargain when people actually proved their phones faster - and that's within MS' specifically set up tests where they stacked the odds in favor of their phones.

RAS

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