 |
 |
Microsoft a magnet for bad PR?
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status:
Online
|
|
Why does this company seem to be a complete magnet for bad PR and embarrassing stuff? We've all seen the Balmer dance routine, the Windows 7 Launch Party video, the Zune, probably a number of lame ads, and now this:
Picasa Web Albums - Chris - Japan Linux S...
Why somebody would think that setting up a silly little booth across the street from a Linux conference was a good idea is beyond me 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator  Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
Chuck
___
"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by besson3c 
Why does this company seem to be a complete magnet for bad PR and embarrassing stuff? We've all seen the Balmer dance routine, the Windows 7 Launch Party video, the Zune, probably a number of lame ads, and now this:
Picasa Web Albums - Chris - Japan Linux S...
Why somebody would think that setting up a silly little booth across the street from a Linux conference was a good idea is beyond me
That's pretty good free advertising if you ask me.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status:
Online
|
|
Yeah, but surely the parody of yourself approach has to explode in your face at some point?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Netherlands
Status:
Offline
|
|
I wouldn't be surprised if the Windows 7 's were all bootlegs. It's an Asian softwareshop for all we know.
and UGH, sandals with socks. is he German?
|
|
{Animated sigs are not allowed.}
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
The Win 7 booth looks more like part of a convenience store with energy drinks stacked high and wide than a place someone would sell (or even advertise) an OS.
Those aren't sandals, they're shoes with lots of breathing spaces.
|
|
Glenn -----
MOT, OTR, TxLic
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Where Airbus babies hatch
Status:
Online
|
|
Originally Posted by PB2K
I wouldn't be surprised if the Windows 7 's were all bootlegs. It's an Asian softwareshop for all we know.
and UGH, sandals with socks. is he German?
The only people in Germany who wear sandals with socks (white tennis socks, even) are American tourists.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hong Kong
Status:
Online
|
|
Originally Posted by PB2K
I wouldn't be surprised if the Windows 7 's were all bootlegs. It's an Asian softwareshop for all we know.?
Its in Japan not China.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Southern California
Status:
Offline
|
|
That picture of Linus is hilarious.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Colorado Springs
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by moonmonkey
Its in Japan not China.
Isn't Japan part of Asia?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Your mom's underwear drawer
Status:
Offline
|
|
Notice that the only visible URL in that booth isn't a Microsoft-owned one.
It's entirely possible Microsoft had nothing to do with that booth.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Status:
Offline
|
|
The booth says it's by an electronics store chain called Yodobashi Camera.
|
|
Chuck
___
"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hong Kong
Status:
Online
|
|
Originally Posted by imitchellg5
Isn't Japan part of Asia?
Yes but counterfeit goods are only common place in a few countries in Asia like China and Thailand, to say they are probably fake because the photo was taken in a certain continent is a bit naive.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: yes
Status:
Online
|
|
I wonder if Microsoft (or Apple) has ever offered Linus a job?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Colorado Springs
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by moonmonkey
Yes but counterfeit goods are only common place in a few countries in Asia like China and Thailand, to say they are probably fake because the photo was taken in a certain continent is a bit naive.
I gotcha.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hong Kong
Status:
Online
|
|
Originally Posted by besson3c
Why does this company seem to be a complete magnet for bad PR and embarrassing stuff? We've all seen the Balmer dance routine, the Windows 7 Launch Party video, the Zune, probably a number of lame ads, and now this:
I think the most unexplainable one is this one, I am a black-belt in sarcasm as I can't explain it:
microsoft music maker - Google Videos
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Zip, Boom, Bam
Status:
Offline
|
|
Not that Microsoft hasn't had some pretty rotten PR... but how exactly is this really an example? 
Who says MS even had a thing to do with the booth? So it was across the street from a Linux conference.. ..err... who in the entire world really gave a good crap about either thing? Who besides Linux fans (all twelve of them... I kid, I kid!) even knows who Linus Torvalds* is or cares if he posed in front of some Windows 7 booth or not?
These shall perhaps join the great unanswered questions of the universe.
*I've used Linux in my business and home servers for years and yet I could walk past the guy and not begin to recognize him, or for that matter, care what his opinions of other OSes are.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top
