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The voice in the YouTube below is not, I repeat not, from a human.

It is from a computer software using voice synthesis technology developed by Yamaha.

The voice is worth 16,275 yen or about SGD210.

Remember the angry mother who got her Microsoft Live Spaces taken out for posting photos of her baby in her birthday suit?

Angry mother got her blog back, but Microsoft still risk losing one Live Spacers.

From Angry Mother:

Hello dear – just checked – it’s all fine. I got another email from MS saying which picture was the ‘issue’ – seems the one of her on the weighing scale so I cropped it and put it back up. Thanks so much for your help and support – am so happy to have the info back though still thinking of changing to another site. Any options?

One blog and the 117 of your votes helped in a small way to get Microsoft to return Angry Mother her baby blog.

Thank you!

Another angry mother post.

The very very very angry mother in Singapore emailed to me that her Windows Live Spaces of her proud new born has been made unavailable to her just like that.

Photos and history of her baby’s first six months, gone!

The angry mother highlighted that it could be due a photo of her massaging her baby and the people at Windows Live Spaces emailed her about the photo.

Unfortunately the email address was one that was just used to sign up for the account and she checked it very rarely.

Curious, why doesn’t Windows Live Spaces just censor the photo instead of deleting the whole blog? Or turn the blog into a private blog where the mother is the only one that can access the blog.

If somebody in Microsoft Singapore is reading the blog, please write to your Windows Live Space team to return Angry Mother access to her blog at lilyaraiven.spaces.live.com.

Vote here to help Angry Mother get her baby blog back!

Hello lilyaraivenstamp,

We have found images involving a child’s/children’s exposure of genitalia/buttocks on your Space, lilyaraiven.

Please note that in order to protect minors from exploitation by unscrupulous individuals, we are now restricting our users from posting fully and partially nude pictures of babies and children, whether the nature of the photo is pornographic or not. In accordance with this, we request that you remove images of the said nature from your space within 48 hours.

If these images are not removed within the said timeframe, we will be forced to close down your Space.

To delete photos from your Space, please follow these steps:

1. Log into your Space

2. Click on the “Edit Your Space” link (upper right portion of the page)

3. Click “Options”

4. Click on the “Storage” link in the Options pane

5. Select the images to be removed

6. Click on “Delete selected items”

We also encourage you to regularly review our Code of Conduct, to ensure that your Space does not violate any of its provisions. Violations include, but are not limited to, nudity, partial nudity, pornography, harassment, and illegal or offensive behavior. For a complete description of content that is not allowed on Windows Live Spaces, please visit our Code of Conduct at: http://Spaces.live.com/coc.aspx

Thank you for helping Windows Live Spaces provide a friendly and safe experience for all of our customers.

Sincerely,

Windows Live Spaces Customer Support

Her daughter might have loved Windows Vista Gadgets, but her mother, a Gartner analyst, had to re-install her desktop to Vista because of all the problems encountered.

It so happened that this mother was one of the interviewer at a Gartner conference with Steve Ballmer as the interviewee.

From PC World:

She went on to explain that she installed Vista for her daughter — and two days later went right back to using the XP operating system. “It’s safe, it works, all the hardware is fine, and everything is great,” she said of XP.

Genovese also argued that her experience with Vista is broadly shared: “What we’re seeing and what we’re hearing from users is a very similar thing. It’s difficult to implement. What should we be seeing that we’re not seeing?”

Steve Ballmer defended Windows Vista as much as he could till the mother aka Gartner analysis ended it with a clincher.

“Good, I’ll let you come in and install it for me,” said Genovese.

Would Steve get his hands dirty to install Windows Vista?

I wonder if Barney Chew, Managing Director for Microsoft Singapore Pte Ltd., would offer to help a Singapore user who switched from Vista to XP to install Vista for that user…

Dear Mr Barney Chew, how about a “Help me install Vista” charity drive?

For SMBs looking to create their own intranet but can’t afford the cash, why don’t you consider Facebook?

Create a group and make it a secret group.

As  a secret group, only admin can invite people to it and it will not appear in the search option.

So if the admins want to send a internal note, they can do it in the group under “Discussion Board” and the staff internally can discuss about the issue.

Or a group photo or share a link only for internal.

Nice idea, right?