- Microsoft doesn't love kids anymore ? What happens towww.microsoft.com/kids/freestuff/ ?
- Posted by penang on January 6th, 2008
Back in 1999, Microsoft set up a wonderful site for kids, at
www.microsoft.com/kids/freestuff/
Lots of stuffs there back then. I introduced my kids to the site, they
had a lot of fun !
Perhaps it was too good to be true.
By 2004, all these came to an abrupt end. Microsoft shut down
everything !
Nowadays, when you go to www.microsoft.com/kids/freestuff/, instead of
meeting with that wonderful Magic School Bus, we got the following:
"We're sorry, but we were unable to service your request. You may wish
to choose from the links below for information about Microsoft
products and services."
and blah... blah... blah...
Kids are not important anymore ? Is Microsoft anti-kids now ?
- Posted by David B. on January 8th, 2008
So your that concerned about it that it took you 3 years to ask where it
went?
Have you contacted Microsoft technical support on the subject?
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- Posted by pg on January 9th, 2008
I did notice the dropping of www.microsoft.com/kids/freestuff/ but my
own kids outgrew the magic school bus stuffs at that time. At that
time I thought it was a glitch, a server crash or whatever.
Just recently I decided to do another search for it, this time for my
sister's kids and I figure they could benefited from it.
To my surprise, it is still down. So I did a search on internet
archive www.archive.org and found out that the site was indeed
terminated.
Contact Microsoft Support Center ? Have you done so recently ? 
Looks like Billy doesn't really like kids after all.
On Jan 8, 1:21 pm, "David B." <nom...@nomail.com> wrote:
- Posted by David B. on January 9th, 2008
Yes, I'm quite sure the site was taken down because he doesn't like kids...
And yes I have contacted MS support recently, do it all the time.
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- Posted by Chris H on January 9th, 2008
Maybe the focus has advanced to different areas, and it is time to move with
it, like using the Game Advisor (select Age from the drop-down) here:
http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Pages/default.aspx or checking out the
family and age appropriate games here:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/fami...htm?WT.svl=nav
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Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
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- Posted by pg on January 10th, 2008
On Jan 9, 6:28 am, "Chris H" <VistaMobil...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for both the links you've provided.
If it's a case of "moving on", then I'm sorry, man, Microsoft is
moving in the WRONG DIRECTION.
They have abandoned the little children.
The two links that you've provided share a common theme - GORE and
VIOLENCE.
Mebbe I'm outdated, I dunno. Just that, for me, the magic school bus
is always much, MUCH better for the little toddlers than the gore and
violence stuffs Microsoft is peddling.
Sometimes things change for the better. But in this case, I'm afraid,
things have changed for the worse.
- Posted by Jimmy S. on January 11th, 2008
Hi pg,
"the magic school bus is always much, MUCH better for the little toddlers"
If you are looking for some MSB games, please visit Scholastics website:
http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/
http://www.scholastic.com/kids/games.htm
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|| news:fbc50471-db3c-472f-8e06-a3bd29de15a1@f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
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||| I did notice the dropping ofwww.microsoft.com/kids/freestuff/but my
||| own kids outgrew the magic school bus stuffs at that time. At that
||| time I thought it was a glitch, a server crash or whatever.
||
||| Just recently I decided to do another search for it, this time for my
||| sister's kids and I figure they could benefited from it.
||
||| To my surprise, it is still down. So I did a search on internet
||| archivewww.archive.organd found out that the site was indeed
||| terminated.
||
||| Contact Microsoft Support Center ? Have you done so recently ?
||
||| Looks like Billy doesn't really like kids after all.
||
||| On Jan 8, 1:21 pm, "David B." <nom...@nomail.com> wrote:
|||| So your that concerned about it that it took you 3 years to ask where it
|||| went?
|||| Have you contacted Microsoft technical support on the
||| subject?
||
|||| "penang" <pen...@catholic.org> wrote in message
||
|||| news:74858202-f89d-4d65-bc32-1ba38a977e23@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
||
||||| Back in 1999, Microsoft set up a wonderful site for kids, at
||||| www.microsoft.com/kids/freestuff/
||
||||| Lots of stuffs there back then. I introduced my kids to the site, they
||||| had a lot of fun !
||
||||| Perhaps it was too good to be true.
||
||||| By 2004, all these came to an abrupt end. Microsoft shut down
||||| everything !
||
||||| Nowadays, when you go towww.microsoft.com/kids/freestuff/, instead of
||||| meeting with that wonderful Magic School Bus, we got the following:
||
||||| "We're sorry, but we were unable to service your request. You may wish
||||| to choose from the links below for information about Microsoft
||||| products and services."
||
||||| and blah... blah... blah...
||
||||| Kids are not important anymore ? Is Microsoft anti-kids now ?
|
| On Jan 9, 6:28 am, "Chris H" <VistaMobil...@hotmail.com> wrote:
|| Maybe the focus has advanced to different areas, and it is time to move with
|| it, like using the Game Advisor (select Age from the drop-down) here:http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US...default.aspxor
|| checking out the family and age appropriate games here:http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/fami...htm?WT.svl=nav
|| --
|| Chris H.
|| Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
|| Tablet Creations -http://nicecreations.us/http://forums.mobilepcworld.net
|| Associate Expert
|| Expert Zone -www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
|
|
| Thanks for both the links you've provided.
|
| If it's a case of "moving on", then I'm sorry, man, Microsoft is
| moving in the WRONG DIRECTION.
|
| They have abandoned the little children.
|
| The two links that you've provided share a common theme - GORE and
| VIOLENCE.
|
| Mebbe I'm outdated, I dunno. Just that, for me, the magic school bus
| is always much, MUCH better for the little toddlers than the gore and
| violence stuffs Microsoft is peddling.
|
| Sometimes things change for the better. But in this case, I'm afraid,
| things have changed for the worse.
