Re: Microsoft runs early April Fools ad

[Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>]

hehehe, m$ claims are funny and far away from reality.
If they are so sure, why don't they take responsibility for damages caused by 
their products? Any warranty for m$ products? How much money does it make every 
time a windoze crash?

/me thinks that Kurt Vonnegut has explained it in this quote:

the big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is 
such a thing as being smart. -- Kurt Vonnegut

Georgi

Gerardo Richarte wrote:
> "Richard M. Smith" wrote:
>
>
> > The Advertising Standards Authority of SA (ASA) has ordered that a
> > Microsoft ad implying that its software will bring about the extinction
> > of the hacker is to be pulled for being "unsubstantiated and
> > misleading".
>
>
>     Heh, it's a funny phrase, and beside how capable Microsoft is of
> fixing their bugs (which I'm not talking about at all), the phrase hides
> some other sutff in it:
>
>     On one side,  by "Hackers", independently of what "Hacker" means, they are
> putting a name on a group of people, and saying that they are going to extint this group
> of people, which not a really happy idea...
>
>     On the other side, either they will fix the bugs in every software out there, or they are
> recognizing that they are planning that the only software which will be running any computer
> out there will be Microsoft's, or at least based or using some Microsoft technology (the
> technology to extinct hackers).
>
>     heh, I just thought it was funny
>
>     gera
>
>
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