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July 22, 2008

Note to Microsoft: The world isn't flat, but Vista does suck.

I saw this teaser ad and had to laugh out loud. They're spending $300 million on a massive ad campaign to 'protect their brand.'

How about spending that $300 million on sucking less? Or spending it on engineers to rip out awful code bloat. $300 mil! Good lord that's a lot of money.



Comments (5)
July 22, 2008

Mark Rampton said...
Ha, I read the article hyping their ad campaing in Fast Company or something -- been waiting to see what they came up with. They better have more up their sleeves than this ...

July 22, 2008

is this what cp+b came up with? flat is right. so clicking on the Get the Facts link gets you to this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/discover/why-now.aspx

that's it?

total crap. cp+b is better than this junk. but in the end you really can't fight the marketing idiots at microsoft, can you?

July 22, 2008

July 22, 2008

Garry Tan said...
Heck, I bloody worked for Microsoft!

I think there are a lot of brilliant, talented people locked in a brutal 10-layer-deep hierarchical structure where innovation struggles to survive.

July 22, 2008

somehow that second sentence can be applied to a certain office...

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