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.

Re:Ah, the Slashdot double-standards

[Anonymous Coward]

This is not a troll, but an observation

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

(Score:-1, Troll)

Re:They need a punching

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't see extremely (over|under)weight Linux dorks beating anyone up, even people in butterfly suits.

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.

Re:Vandalizes?

[Anonymous Coward]

You certainly wouldn't have the nuts to do anything. I know that behind your keyboard, you're a bad ass but we both know that in real life, you're a fucking pansy. Don't act like you've ever even fired a paintball gun - let alone an unarmed person on the street. Furthermore, of course it's against the law you fucking moron. Your attempt at humor is not only stupid but it also shows that you are nothing but a cumdumpster who's still angry that his lunch money got stolen in grade school. I hope you get rectum cancer from all the times your father fucked you in the ass you fucking muslim. I hate you and the world hates you. Stop being a fucking loser already.

Re:Yeah but at least tux is cool

[stratjakt]

> Yeah, but tux is cool.

tux is the lamest mascot *EVER*.

I'd rather be trapped in an elevator with Ellen Feiss and the Dude-wheres-my-Dell guy than have that stupid penguin spray painted on my sidewalk.

BTW, this "original, innovative idea" has been used for 50+ years. It's a really old marketing gimmick.

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