Just when you have seen it all, meet Microsoft's new action figures. You have to see it to believe it...
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Just when you have seen it all, meet Microsoft's new action figures. You have to see it to believe it...
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bogdanbiv
16 years 8 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago
Drowning Windows Vista?
Surely the rejection of Windows Vista reached epic proportions, but this looks like widespread panic inside the company's management / marketing team.
No time to make a Wesnoth forum account right now, but here is my question:
Could it be that they are desperate enough to try just about anything, and try it quickly?
I believe they drowning and are out of air.
db0
16 years 8 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago
>No time to make a Wesnoth
>No time to make a Wesnoth forum account
>right now, but here is my question:
Just comment on my blog :P
>Could it be that they are desperate enough
>to try just about anything, and try it quickly?
>I believe they drowning and are out of air.
Aren't they trying everything already? They'd be paying people if they could get them to try Vista :D
"It is fortunate that what is necessary, is easy to acquire and what
is difficult to have, is not necessary" - Epicurus
EdLesMann
16 years 8 weeks 3 days 9 hours ago
I agree. If they are serious
I agree. If they are serious then they have to be hurting to pull something like this. Who could this possibly be directed/marketed at seriously?
Unless they are going to start swiping ideas from LEGO and competing against them, I don't see a big market here at all. The only people I can think of who would be interested in this are the hard core people Microsoft already have locked in (as evident by the "Offer good only to the first 5,000 residents of the U.S. or Canada that attend at least two live MSDN Webcasts or complete two MSDN Virtual Labs, or one of each, between March 15, 2007, and April 15, 2007"). They certainly won't attract Linux or Mac guys and even the people on the edge of switching are not going to suddenly think "well now that they have action heroes I can collect I am going to stay!"
The only way I could see this working is if it is a complete joke that will die out by the weeks end (or April 15th...whatever). I am hoping that's the case because then I can just write this off as something silly some guy did on his free time. That sits better with me and I am OK with that versus thinking Microsoft spent tons of $$$ 'developing' this. That thought bothers me.
I expect to see a lot of these on ebay for 1$ in May...
db0
16 years 8 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago
Probably. I really want to
Probably. I really want to believe it's joke but generally MS is not known for the humor :-/
It stinks of desperation to me