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Scroogled Keep Calm Mug
- joezydeco 13y agoPlease, can this finally be the nail in the coffin of the "Keep Calm and <x>" meme?
- splatzone 13y agoKeep Calm and Regurgitate Once-Popular Memes
- ok_craig 13y agoIs there a large contingent of bitter MS employees on HN? Does it really need to be explained how the whole scroogled campaign is kind of ridiculous and hypocritical?
- shooper 13y ago>Is there a large contingent of bitter MS employees on HN? Huh what? What leads you to that conclusion? I'm totally lost here.
- mbrubeck 13y agoI think the implicit question was meant to be "Who is up-voting this post on HN, bitter MS employees?"
- mbennett 13y agoWhen I saw the comment, the story had 6 points i.e 5 upvotes. Even making the huge assumption and leap that it was all MS employees and no one else voted on it who thought it was interesting news, I don't know if 5 counts as a "large contingent". To be clear, I am not in favor of this campaign and I did not upvote the story.
- proexploit 13y agoI up-voted the story not because I like the message or because I'm for it but because I want it to be seen. I'm against any kind of "attack" advertising and I'd like to see it discussed, not ignored.
- Zikes 13y agoNormally I would think it would be considered a very bad sign when a company is so terrible at convincing you of their own greatness that their only recourse is to attack the competition.
- molecule 13y agoNormally, but not surprising, given the source, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt#Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt#Mic...
- Zikes 13y ago> "If an open source software solution breaks, who's gonna fix it?" Oh my god that is gold.
- mtgx 13y agoKeep calm and...wait until we properly encrypt our services - Microsoft https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/encrypt-web-report-whos-doing-what#crypto-chart https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/encrypt-web-report-who...
- DannyBee 13y agoKeep Calm and Focus On Things Other Than The Quality Of Our Own Products.
- gagege 13y agoXbox: Keep calm while we read your biometrics and detect what emotions you're feeling and use that information to do who knows what!
- mdellabitta 13y agohttp://mashable.com/2013/11/18/xbox-one-facts/ http://mashable.com/2013/11/18/xbox-one-facts/ "The Xbox team has stressed that the motion-capturing camera Kinect, which is bundled with every Xbox One, is a much more sophisticated device than its predecessor. The camera can see a lot more of what is happening in the room; it can sense the number of people, see their skeletons, monitor heartbeats and even recognize faces." At least Google can't see my skeleton...
- Zikes 13y agoUnless the thing fires x-rays, I'm pretty sure they meant "it uses the data to extrapolate a skeleton".
- fhars 13y agoAm I the only one who can no longer intuitively differentiate between these geometrically styled logos in four flat primary colors and so was initially confused by this mug?
- aray 13y agoIt's a whole category of products with shirts, hats, posters and more: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Scroogled/categoryID.67575900 http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Scroogle... (via http://marketingland.com/microsoft-web-store-now-selling-scroogled-mugs-65773 http://marketingland.com/microsoft-web-store-now-selling-scr...)
- xanderstrike 13y agoHow incredibly childish.
- byjove 13y agoI think it's the hypocrisy that irks me the most about this. I remember a short while back a Microsoft employee was asking on HN 'why the hate?' Well, THIS (Oh, and the patents thing).
- Nerdfest 13y agoThe whole patent extortion against Android and Linux is incredible. I'd very surprised the tactics they're using are not actually considered real extortion. Signing an NDA before showing you the patents they're threatening you with?
- molecule 13y ago"steal your data" seems boldly libelous.
- lake99 13y agoAs an HTC-Android phone user, I'd buy a mug titled "<MS logo> keep calm while we steal your money". Not if MS is selling it, though.
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- pkulak 13y agoEvery time I see this "Scroogled" campaign I think about Microsoft and Google in an elevator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlOSdRMSG_k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlOSdRMSG_k
- rbchv 13y agoThey're not stealing my data. I gladly give it to them.
- cromwellian 13y agoGoogle employees might end up buying these. Last time MSFT did the campaign with the slimy Google Docs salesman guy with a tie with Google logo colors, Google employees got the ties made and started wearing them internally. The best way to deal with this kind of tasteless campaigning is with humor not anger. My guess is whoever runs these campaigns is separate from the product and engineering people, and Microsoft needs to realize it is doing more damage to its brand than Google.
- dragonwriter 13y agoIts kind of not surprising that Microsoft's anti-Google strategy looks like a needlessly desperate negative political campaign since it started when Microsoft brought on Mark Penn[1], whose go-hard-negative strategy was so successful for Democratic then-front-runner Hillary Clinton in 2008, to lead its messaging efforts. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Penn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Penn