Meanwhile, MS is 'innovating' disinformation
While Opera is in the news for true innovation Microsoft is in the news for more lies and deceit. Microsoft has pulled a phony Mac-to-PC "switch" ad after the switcher was uncovered as a Microsoft PR rep.
How dumb is this? The 'switch' ads by Apple are nice, but I hardly see folks flocking to Macs. This PR firm was pretty dumb, since they managed to cause bad PR to respond to a non-threat of major Mac migration.
What's awesome about this from the irony standpoint is that the deception was found out, in part, because the Microsoft Word document that was used contained the information about the author (see Slashdot).
So not only did they lie, but they got caught because of the lack of security of one of their products.
The irony is dripping.
Related:
DaringFireball on why this was so dumb
Wired.com (link to MS fake ad story)
Salon.com (link to MS fake ad story)
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Comments
Thursday, Oct 17th - Scary.
Attempting to follow up on any of the links from slashdot now provides nothing but 404's. Google's cache is gone, the link to the microsoft page (_stock_) is gone, etc. Wow, talk about damage control
Posted by: webhed | October 17, 2002 06:53 AM