When I started my install of Microsoft’s Visual C# 2005 Express Edition today, an insignificand paragraph on the start page captured my attention: Microsoft’s registration benefits program. Register your copy of Visual C# and you’ll get 250 icons for free.
Alright, I’m just in the process of reworking my website and had already searched for some good icons that I could afford. So why not check this out?
I had already registered Visual C# in Microsoft Connect or Microsoft Live or MSN or Microsoft Passport or whatever it’s called today when it first came out, so I just logged in a began searching for the “registration benefits” page. Nothing there…
My registration email was still an older address that I’m trying to get rid of, so I decided to update my email address, hoping to end up in my user profile with a nice list of those registration benefits offers laid out before me. That seemed like a good idea, less so when 10 minutes later I was still searching for a way to change my email address…
Fine, maybe only new subscribers get the registration benefits and I want to use my new email anyway. Why not just re-register and create a new Microsoft Passport-Connect-Live-Whatever account, then reap those registration benefits?
Said and done, after registering I had to validate my email, enter my details and then validate my email… wait a second, didn’t we just do that the moment before? Fine, after the second validation I finally received the welcome email with the link to the registration benefits page.
Wow, that was really worth my 20 minutes. A big fancy “Page not found”. I’m still thinking of ways I can use those cool words on my website.
Update: Out of the blue, it finally worked and I got to the desired page.
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