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Microsoft enlists faceless girl band as face of Windows 7
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| Interpublic agency UM is behind a campaign
| to encourage listeners of ballad-heavy UK
| radio station Heart to visit a website
| dubbed "Sugababes love Windows 7" to
| suggest locations for the girl band to
| perform in.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/26/windows_7_sugababes/
Microsoft marketing thinks that women = Sugababes
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| Aiming for that crucial eight-year-old
| girls market, Microsoftâs abysmal marketing
| department have signed up the Sugababes as
| the new face of Windows 7. Follow the three
| unrecognisable singer-dancer-actress-models
| in a series of painfully stilted videos as
| they use the new, fast, easy to use
| operating system to organise their busy
| lives. As though they donât have a retinue
| of PAs and record company stooges, for
| Godâs sake.
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/iandouglas/100004270/microsoft-marketing-thinks-that-women-sugababes/
Windows 7 'Family Guy' Ad Airs Despite Microsoft Axe? (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/23/windows-7-family-guy-ad-a_n_368282.html
Family Guy advertised Windows 7 after all
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/23/family-guy-advertised-windows-7-after-all/
Microsoft Posts Unaired Family Guy Windows 7 Clips [VIDEO]
http://mashable.com/2009/11/27/unaired-family-guy-clipso/
Recent:
Parent group to Microsoft: Stop supporting 'Family Guy'
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| The Parents Television Council, which aims
| to protect children from sex, violence and
| profanity on TV, is calling for Microsoft to
| stop advertising on the popular show "Family
| Guy."
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http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/185738.asp
Parents Group Asks Microsoft to Drop All "Family Guy" Ads
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| Microsoft found out that Seth MacFarlane's
| one-hour "Family Guy" special was filled
| with jokes about the Holocaust, Mother
| Theresa and incest they canceled their
| sponsorship. Now, the same busybodies that
| got the FCC to fine ABC for daring to show a
| bare ass on "NYPD Blue" have asked them to
| go one step further.
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http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2009/11/parents_group_asks_microsoft_t.php
Parents Group to Microsoft: Pull All Family Guy Ads
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| The organization's national grassroots
| director, Gavin McKiernan, delivered a
| speech to the board stating, "Mr.
| MacFarlane's Family Guy has consistently
| presented excessively violent, graphically
| sexual and profane material. The lead in and
| lead out of the Seth MacFarlane special were
| both Family Guy episodes supported by
| Windows 7."
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http://www.appscout.com/2009/11/parents_group_to_microsoft_pul.php
Microsoft Shocked 'Family Guy' Humor Includes Incest, Holocaust Jokes (MSFT)
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| Turns out Seth MacFarlane isn't PC enough to be a PC.
| Microsoft was set to sponsor a prime time special by the
| "Family Guy" creator as part of its Windows 7 media
| blitz, but was somehow surprised when the typically
| MacFarlane-esque fare didn't exactly "fit with the
| Windows brand."
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http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-shocked-family-guy-humor-includes-incest-holocaust-jokes-2009-10
Microsoft Pulls Out Of Family Guy Sponsorship... Gets Half The Benefit For None Of The Money?
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091026/1635226681.shtml
Microsoft drops Family Guy like a hot deaf guy joke
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/27/win_7_sponsorship/
Microsoft nixes 'Family Guy' deal after content proves too raunchy
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/10/microsoft_nixes_family_guy_deal_after_content_proves_too_raunchy.html?ana=from_rss
Microsoft Dumps Family Guy
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/advertising_search/microsoft_dumps_family_guy.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Microsoft surrenders Windows perpetrators on television
http://notnews.today.com/2009/10/27/microsoft-surrenders-windows-perpetrators-on-television/
Windows 7 â Itâs Vista All Over Again
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| âThere you go againâ. The Gipper said it in
| 1982, and Iâm saying it today â but about
| Windows 7, not Jimmy Carter.
|
| Because the more I play with Windows 7, the
| more I see the Vista debacle unfolding all
| over again. The commonly accepted wisdom is
| that Windows 7 is oh-so-much-better than
| Vista. Well, based on my own extensive
| testing, itâs not. Not at all.
|
| First a bit of history. Back in 2006 I was
| editor-in-chief of PC Magazine. Vista was
| coming out and we were pretty darn
| laudatory. Microsoft provided us with new
| hardware, we tested beta versions of Vista,
| and we loved it. Shortly after it shipped,
| alas, the Wow was less Now than Ow. Vista
| sucked upon release to the world for a wide
| range of reasons â not least because the
| networking and audio driver models were
| completely rebuilt in the six months prior
| to release. That led to driver problems,
| along with general instability. When I left
| PC Magazine in 2007, my parting column was
| a bit of an apology â weâd been too easy on
| what turned out to be one of Microsoftâs
| more uneven efforts.
|
| Itâs easy to get snowed. Microsoft provides
| its favored reviewers a steady stream of
| highlights, new versions, and new features
| â along with brand new hardware to run the
| new builds upon. A team of technical
| marketers inside the borg stand at the
| ready â helping the anointed work through,
| and around, any problems that develop
| during testing.
|
| [...]
|
| Weâve seen this story before. Vista was
| overhyped when it came out by everyone from
| PC Magazine to the Wall Street Journal. And
| now Windows 7 is getting the same treatment.
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http://louderback.com/2009/windows-7-its-vista-all-over-again/
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