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Saenger: Tester - Translator; BAM!ID: 5; Joined: 2006-01-10; Posts: 1735; Credits: 231,778,465; World-rank: 6,770

2007-04-01 15:02:08

From the Newssection on the Homepage of BURP:

Apr 01, 2007
BURP has been sold to Microsoft Corporation and will be renamed to "Microsoft 3D Online". For the future this has a few minor consequences, mainly pricing:
Render of 1 session: $2
Render of 10 sessions: $19
Or a monthly fee of $50 for any number of sessions
Also our client now requires a genuine installation of MSN Messenger and Outlook Express to work.

Grüße vom Sänger

PovAddict: BAM!ID: 115; Joined: 2006-05-10; Posts: 1013; Credits: 5,785,239; World-rank: 79,514

2007-04-01 15:06:13

Huh? But a friend told me today that Microsoft had gone bankrupt...

Saenger: Tester - Translator; BAM!ID: 5; Joined: 2006-01-10; Posts: 1735; Credits: 231,778,465; World-rank: 6,770

2007-04-01 15:09:53

Huh? But a friend told me today that Microsoft had gone bankrupt...

Now you know why

Trabeate: BAM!ID: 918; Joined: 2006-05-29; Posts: 3; Credits: 23,001,858; World-rank: 31,821

2007-04-01 15:13:41

Could this be just a April Fool's joke. Myself i have not crunched for BURP yet, but if this is just a project that does some mathmatical figures what interest would Microsoft have in it. And why would you have to pay to crunch? No one would pay to crunch a Workunit because there are many other projects out there that people could be crunching for instead.