Decline and Fall of the MS Empire: Chapter 9

[northernflights]

Microsoft has launched a $300 million ad campaign for Windows with an apparent new strategy for self-defeat: produce an advertisement so bad that viewers will raise their eyebrows, share the impressively awful ad to their friends, and then switch to MacOS X or Ubuntu Linux

Comments

[adularia]

I already knew I have a low tolerance for video, so maybe I'm a poor test audience (also, I'm writing this on a Mac..) but most commercials aren't long enough to make me lose interest if I've *sought them out.*