[geeks] MS Ad fun...

Rob rstaab at panix.com
Wed Jan 9 13:08:23 CST 2002


I still prefer the amusment of them trying to cast false votes on the web
for .NET.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html

- Rob

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Ken Hansen wrote:

> MS has an ad in this weeks Infoworld that is too funny, but I need some
> help from the folks here...
>
> The tagline for this ad is:
>
> 	"When you think scalability, it's time to think software."
>
> In the ad there is a picture of a datacenter through a window,
> everything is nearly all white, but here are the interesting things to
> note:
>
> 	- Far right side of window, there is an XT/AT on top of a rack.
>
> 	- On the far left is (what appears to me to be an) Amdek CGA monitor
>
> 	- There is a water cooler in the datacenter
>
> 	- There appears to be four rack with removeable disk packs, circa
> late 70's
>
> The question is, are those racks full of some sort of removable disks?
>
> MS has another ad of a man at his desk, and there are numerous ques
> placing the photo as being from the mid 80's (external 3 1/2" drive! MS
> Word documentation! etc.)
>
> Am I just missing some grand strategy, or are they trying to use up
> photos from Corbis (?) Mr. Gate's image company...
>
> Ken
>
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> http://www.basenji.com/~ken/forsale.html
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