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Microsoft Becomes Wembley Stadium's Backer
Xlylith writes "BBC News is reporting that Bill Gates and software giant Microsoft have signed to become first "Founding Partner" of the new Wembley stadium, in a five-year deal worth at least £5m. Microsoft technology will be used in the stadium, and the firm will get use of the pitch for 90 minutes a year. Guess where Vista will be launched in UK next year? Microsoft's press release is also available."
Guess where Vista will be launched in UK next year?
Next year? Are you sure?
Atleast microsoft can be accused of astroturfing
One of the features of this new stadium is easy throwable chairs.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
Great ... no more working scoreboards.
I hope they use Vista to control the annoying advertising boards with scrolling animated adverts though. I'll be happy to see them go blank.
This is a safe use of Windows. If it crashes, and the building isn't moving it can't collide with anything.
Hot dogs can continue to cook with residual heat, and be served while the servers are repaired.
Sooner or later the blue screen of death will hit the big board but the worst that will happen is people get a good chuckle and don't know what the current score is.
Linux will make it inside as PDAs/cell phones with Linux will work despite Microsoft efforts.
Hey, now you can watch a live game and hack a computer at the same time! Just don't lock the doors.
You don't want to have a Google stadium either.
....." at the door (which incidentally would be 99% complete but would still have workmen tweaking it), and when you finally did get into it the performers would spend 20% of their time on stage doing their own projects.
You would turn up for an event to be asked "Did you mean to see
You would like the experience though, and leave with a general feeling of wellbeing and none evilness.
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"Well, Andy, as you can clearly see from the replay, the defender performed an illegal operation and the referee had no choice but to send an error report to Microsoft."
I say we take-off and slashdot the site from orbit... it's the only way to be sure
Microsoft signs as England backer
Bill Gates and software giant Microsoft and the Queen have signed to become first "Founding Partner" of the new England, in a five-year deal worth at least £50m.
Microsoft technology will be used in all official functions, and the firm will get use of the soil for 90 minutes a year.
'Iconic'
"We are tremendously proud to be the first (founding partner)," said Nick Barley, business and marketing officer of Microsoft UK.
"You won't see our name on consumers' shirts but there is something about England - it's an icon, it's a legend, it's part of British culture and life. The word Microsoft will appear on every one of their biometric ID cards, which will be renamed to Passport and we're working on a deal to transcribe it into consumers genes and have obtained a patent for that."
The original England opened in 1066 and eventually became the British Empire. The Empire won its last match against Germany in the century and recently defeated Argentina.
Regeneration programme
English executives say over two million visitors will visit the England each year, and that the project will generate approximately 5,000 new jobs.
The deal is at the heart of a regeneration programme called Vision 2020, creating new homes, offices and community sport and leisure facilities as well as improved public transport links.
However its construction has not been entirely smooth, with delays and cost overruns, with Australian builders Multiplex saying it will not make a profit on the contract. Bill Gates dissmissed the builder's assertions saying the new facts will get TCO straight.
"The union of Microsoft and the new state-of-the-art kingdom is fantastic news and will help resurrect the Empire as the world's leading sports and entertainment venue," said a representative.
Business Aims
"We won't have any of that Open Business going on here," Bill smiled as he toured a Castle, "I got so sick of hearing people slipping out of my grip in Munich, Mass and all that. We're going to enjoy a good market here and everywhere we are able to purchase customers."
Disney and Warner executives were stung by the deal. A collective "I can't believe we let that tin horn beat us to it!" was heard in board meetings in both companies.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Sweet. It'll give us another chance to test the Stadium Sponsor Curse.
The Blue Screen of Death is going to look awesome on a screen the size of a small house!
And you can sneak in on the second Tuesday of every month, pending security patch installation!
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There is no home team as such, it is the new English national stadium. It is the neutral venue for the major football and rugby league cup finals. While the ground has been redeveloped the FA Cup final, League Cup final and Charity Shield have been been played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff (the Welsh national stadium).
The England national team (who have being playing most of their matches in Manchester, Newcastle and Birmingham in recent years) will be playing their home matches at Wembley, but in association football, national teams do not have shirt sponsors in the same way as club sides do (it is still considered somewhat vulgar to sell out your country to some corporate interest, though no doubt things will eventually change as most other sports have gone this way).
The new Wembley stadium has taken longer than first forecast and run a long way over budget but it should be a spectacular venue. It will be the largest capacity sports venue in the world in which every seat is under cover, with a sliding roof so that the grass can be protected from/exposed to the weather as required, and each seat will have more leg room than the seats in the royal box at the old Wembley. In the words of Tony Banks, "it will make the Stade de France look like a dog kennel". Surprisingly, it will only be used for football at the 2012 Olympics, with a smaller, 80,000 seat Olympic stadium being built in the East of the city.
Suck figs.
Bon Jovi at your opening ceremony? That has to be a bad omen. Expect locusts.
... and then they built the supercollider.
They think it's all over... (Blue screen causes entire stadium to crash) ... It is now!
- over for those of you who dont follow World Cup football)
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Bon Jovi? What is this, 1987?
I got more rhymes than Jamaica got Mangoes.