> They should probably suspend all advertising campaigns until this crisis > is over. >
Which crisis? Apple sales increasing at an increasing rate, Linux use increasing at an increasing rate, hard-to-ignore-any-longer howling of PC users in pain with Vista being jammed down our throats, the number of folks buying more expensive PCs just to get the XP Pro downgrade with the Vista upgrade option instead of raw Vista, (non)performance of the financial industry and US economy as a whole, increasing rate of inflation (which is being masked as an increasing amount of fuel and food items as a percentage of purchases are removed from the total bundle of goods to "adjust for market conditions"), civil rights being stripped away from US citizens under the pretense of being necessary to save us from "the terrorists", "we don't get it" response to M$ advertisements, success of Apple ads, success of Linux despite no real ads, the persistently long & not-so-slow slide of the US dollar's exchange rate against other currencies, or "name whatever other crisis you want"? On the bright side, I can still deploy compiled VFP apps without paying any additional fees to M$ <g>... Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul McNett > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] Microsoft Commercials > > > Jeff Johnson wrote: > > I just saw a new Microsoft commercial. Everyone - including Bill Gates > > - says "I'm a PC." It will be interesting to see how they move > to plan C. > > They should probably suspend all advertising campaigns until this crisis > is over. > > Paul > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
