From: mike 

On Sun, 6 May 2007 10:23:21 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>"mike"  wrote in message
>news:c10p331d03jm4q54em82nm6fd7jk2648e3{at}4ax.com...
>
>> Until the latest rankings, Microsoft was the most popular Web property
>> in every month since comScore began tracking global numbers in January
>> 2006. And given the growth trends, Microsoft was undoubtedly No. 1 long
>> before the survey was started, according to Bob Ivins, executive vice
>> president for comScore.
>
>So every time a windows user clicks on help and ends up reading a page off
>microsoft.com instead of a help file. Every time a user clicks search to go
>look for a file on his local machine and it goes and hits microsoft.com,
>Every time a user boots Vista and it phones home, these are all counted as
>hits for microsoft web property?

Don't forget all the hits from MS Office.  For example, when I wanted to
draw a horizontal line in my Word document, MS Word hit microsoft.com to
download the horizontal line.


>Isn't that cheating?

Since when has Microsoft ever tried to play on a field that was not tilted
in their direction?

  /m

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