__/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Wednesday 27 December 2006 17:44 \__
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5094542.ASTyooa3pO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Microsoft marketeers do all sorts of secretive things as such, including
>> viral marketing. Does anyone remember the "What if Microsoft made the
>> iPod?"
>> video? Microsoft's marketing department injected it to the Web. Only later
>> came the quiet admission.
>
> The video itself, when it was first released, explicitly stated it was
> created by a Microsoft employee. There was no "secretly" or "later, quiet
> admission". You're spreading FUD. The video was just a satirical look at
> Microsoft, contrasting Apple's philosophy of simplicity versus Microsoft's
> feature-bloat. They are MAKING FUN of *themselves*, not of Apple. I guess
> MS is comfortable enough with itself that it can laugh at itself.
If you take a trip around the blogsphere, you'll discover that you're wong
(sic) on this one.
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