Get thee behind me, Microsoft!
Posted on October 29, 2007
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So, I got tired of seeing these bogus advertisements, featuring a fake folded newspaper popping up on Linux community sites of all places, trumpeting freaking Windows reliability over Linux- I decided I’d have a spot of parody fun with the trusty Adobe Photoshop CS2.app, and some alleged “free time”. One of the resulting parodies of their revolting advertisements is shown here:
Reliability of Windows Server Overrated - Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt.
I came up with a few similar examples of those wretched advertisements to sort of have a stab at those Redmondian borgs of doom, when what does my Google Analytics reveal? They’re on to me- running back to good ole Washington through the tubes, a yellin’, Andre, Andre, I’ve got the secret documents!1
The oddest thing of all is that after I thought it could not possibly happen, and after such luminaries preceded them in the last few months…First I got an employment contact from Apple (woohoo), then IBM, and then Google (again). Now, what does my inbox reveal last Friday, 10-26-2007- one day after the visit above? Why, just a ‘lil MS recruiter with news of a position “in your area”. Hey recruiter bot, last time I checked, Redmond Washington is not exactly in my area.
I think I’ll wait until I am actually starving to death and have no other resource on earth to rely on before taking up that course of action though. As it is now, I’ve been offered my dream job, and I am confident that I will be doing just fine there, and soon, too…
The only way I’d ever work for Microsoft is if I could work for a 1992 era Microsoft, and then only if they’d let me help work on Microsoft Bob. With no help from you Microsoft, I’ve managed to stave off starvation again! Yay! Now, leave my website alone, and don’t sue me, bro!
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