[Am-info] Fwd: [IP] Microsoft Shows 85% Profit Margins for Windows

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.11.19 03:23 PM, madodel@ptdprolog.net typed: 
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>>I understand that.  But that butterfly guy isn't cuddly or positive. 
>>He's just plain creepy.
>
>I have to wonder if they just wanted to make m$ look stupid and harmless. 
>For a company like m$, its not about selling a product, its about
>projecting an image, and I think that the m$n guy looks stupid.  As others
>have proved they can afford to lose vast amounts of money on peripheral
>products like m$n and xbox, since they have a money printing operation in
>windoze and office.

     I disagree. I think some of the marketing executives were sitting in 
their offices after a long day of reprocessing bullshit, smoking illegal 
substances so powerful that only vested Microsoft executives can afford 
to purchase it. One of them suddenly had a bright idea. "Whoah, what if 
we, like, spent a couple hundred million on an ad campaign with your 
cousin dressed up like a BUG?" "DUDE! And I bet Ballmer will greenlight 
it, he's smoking stronger stuff than you are!"

     Or maybe it's just like the E*Trade SuperBowl ad with the monkey 
playing a drum. They just wanted to spend a record amount of money on the 
worst advertisement of all time.



======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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