[ubuntu-uk] Asus and Microsoft sitting in a tree....

Alan Lord (News) alanslists at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 20:59:06 BST 2009


On 01/06/09 20:52, Christopher Swift wrote:
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> Lets not jump ahead of ourselves here. I highly doubt that either ASUS
> nor Microsoft are officially behind this campaign. Really guys do a
> whois on the domain name, it is registered by GoDaddy.com for crying out
> loud! In all fairness both teams have a better advertising team than
> what this website has came to be. The entire website is just one image
> and an embedded Flowplayer to play the video! Honestly wouldn't they use
> something like Silverlight? Perhaps something like the Hyper-Video part
> of Silverlight would be a real plus when mentioning XP direct to the MS
> site, when mentioning  the eee, direct to ASUS' site. There isn't even a
> single link to asus.com nor microsoft.com neither. In short it looks
> like you guys have been ultimately trolled.

Are you referring to the same article that started this thread? It links 
to here: 
http://www.osnews.com/story/21589/Asus_Microsoft_Launch_Anti-Linux_Netbook_Campaign

Looks like a MS/Asus add to me.

Al




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