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 ).
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.
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