Curt,
While I on Microsoft's forums, I found this:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/hottechnology

Except for the threads at the top, all of the threads in this category are video and DVD conversion spam. Some of the posts are even advertising Mac products (on a Microsoft forum).

it is not the same company, but they surely are following the same path. No, this MSDN page was worse. Awful!  Perfect example, dhuser!