[Am-info] Microsoft Ad Unravels -- Lessons
Erick Andrews
Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net
Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:30:46 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:05:24 -0700, Mitch Stone wrote:
>Microsoft Ad Unravels -- Lessons
>by Dan Gillmor
>Posted on Tue, Oct. 15, 2002
>http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/
>ejournal/429980.htm
>
>Microsoft is capturing some well-earned derision today over its latest
>admittedly slippery deed. But our favorite monopolist's unfamiliarity with
>truth is actually more of a side story than what this episode means.
>
>Background: Microsoft posted a semi-bogus Web page advertisement (Google
>cache; the original is gone) featuring a winsome young woman who
>supposedly switched from a Mac to a PC. The page was entitled "Mac to PC:
[...]
What makes me uncomfortable, in my technical naivety, is how the heck can
MS pull this from Google's cache?????
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Erick Andrews