Microsoft may Sanction the 'Switcher' PR-Rep

Nerull sent in a snippit from The Age saying "Microsoft may consider sanctions against a public relations consultant who tried to pass herself off as someone who had switched from the Apple Mac to Windows XP in a high-profile US advertising campaign, chief executive Steve Ballmer said today." Here is Monday's Slashdot Story that this follows up to. Lots of amusing little quotes about what it means to be trustworthy.

Comments

Re:Sanctions?

[Anixamander]

Worse yet, it could be GW's idea of "sanctions". Smart bombs and cruise missiles and ground troops, oh my!

Re:Slaughtering the messenger

[Anonymous Coward]

"We deliberately engaged in a campaign of misinformation and lies

Apple has been doing it for years and they haven't punished anybody but their shareholders. I mean their Switch commercials are no better than anything that Microsoft puts out. I mean that moron with the digital video. He can't figure out how to connect it in the first part and then miraculously just plugs in the firewire cable in the second part. Well dumbass, you could have save yourself a few thousand dollars if you had just bought a $40 firewire card for your PC. I mean XP has the drivers for them already so it is plug and play and XP has its own movie maker software and dozens of competiting products for under $100 that are just as good as iMovie. Someday people will wake up and realize that Apple is far more evil than Microsoft. They just don't have the marketshare so nobody cares.

MS to hire!

[TrebleJunkie]

"Although not referring specifically to the Mallinson case, [Steve Ballmer] added it may be necessary to 'weed out' employees who did not live up to Microsoft's code of behaviour."

(from the article)

And in Related news, Microsoft is to hire as many retired ex-Nazis as they can find.