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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.11.19 10:13 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>Thanks, I had not seen the "Life is short" ad, only heard about it. If 
>you've ever watched TV in the UK, you know they're far more tolerate of 
>risque situation and grim humor then are we Americans. This one is over 
>the top, even by British standards. It is one seriously crass piece of 
>work.

  I wasn't personally offended, but certainly can see how a lot of people 
would be. And it's not an effective ad IMO - "life is short, so you 
should spend more of it in front of the TV flicking buttons." Stupid.



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