Microsoft Vandalizes NYC

Brooklyn Bob writes "The New York Times (free registration etc.) is reporting that New York Tells Microsoft to Get Its Butterfly Decals Out of Town. Sure, it's "corporate graffiti", but the butterfly looks pretty good on the subway entrance." The story only covers a small part of their efforts to promote MSN, the "Microsoft operating system required" internet service. The first submission we got about the campaign described another part of it: Latent IT writes "I wish I had a link to submit with this, but strange things are afoot in New York City. At 61st and Broadway, 30-40 guys and gals in butterfly suits colored in the Microsoft colors, and carrying MSN banners just rollerbladed by, screaming at the top of their lungs down the middle of Broadway. Interestingly enough, this took them right near the under construction AOL Time Warner building. It seemed worth jotting down, but they were literally gone and down the street before I could reach my digital camera. (Place all bug on windshield jokes here.)"

Comments

Ah, the Slashdot double-standards

[EchoMirage]

This is not a troll, but an observation: When it's IBM spray-painting Linux graffiti messages, it's free speech, but when it's Microsoft painting butterflies, it's vandalism?

Ah, wait, I just noticed which editor posted it. Now it all makes sense.

Lets go the whole way

[dazdaz]

Let's kick Microsoft out of America, not just off a temporary billboard. Their starting to destroy America's credibility, all it stands for is starting to become a joke.

Microsoft, Love and Linux

[troff]

Step 1:
- Peace, Love, Linux
<http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/04/1 9/ibm.g uerilla.idg/>

Step 2:
- "We're learning, if you will, from the Linux World." - Steve Ballmer,
<http://news.com.com/2009-1001-961354.html>

Step 3:
- Profit! :-)