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A comment on Microsoft Bob Taking Up Space (2008).

Re:Microsoft Bob Taking Up Space (2008) by ubercow13 on Sunday November 22, 2015 @06:01AM (#10609737)
Why do I need to sign in to my Microsoft account to view this page?
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Re:Microsoft Bob Taking Up Space (2008) by hobs on Sunday November 22, 2015 @10:59AM (#10610416)
Pretty sure it is because you have a cookie set that tells them you do have an acccount, so they prompt you for login.

If you click the link in a private window, I almost guarantee it wont prompt for login.

Quite annoying and it can add significant load time to pages even if you are signed in.

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Re:Microsoft Bob Taking Up Space (2008) by MileyCyrax on Sunday November 22, 2015 @06:21AM (#10609766)
That's interesting. I didn't.

Well, maybe this will be useful to someone https://archive.is/ZKgP

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Re:Microsoft Bob Taking Up Space (2008) by spikej on Sunday November 22, 2015 @08:27AM (#10609988)
Or this: http://www.readability.com/m?url=https://technet.microsoft.c...

(minus all the ads)

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Re:Microsoft Bob Taking Up Space (2008) by to3m on Sunday November 22, 2015 @08:42AM (#10610018)
I'd love to know too! I've noticed this happening sometimes when I follow MSDN or MS discussion forum links from Google.
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