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Microsoft Battles Vista Perception With Prizes
LambAndMint writes "In what can only be described as an act of utter desperation to overcome Vista's mostly negative public perception issues, Microsoft has put together an online "Fact or Fiction" quiz about Windows Vista. Every person who submits themselves to Microsoft indoctrination gets a free shirt and the chance to win a $15,000 prize. Some of the supposed 'facts' will make you feel like you're reading a document from an alternate reality. Get ready to get a job as a computer salesman for a mass-market retailer as you go through the quiz."
Woohoo! Free shirt!
This is left as an exercise for the reader.
I'm glad they're not running an airline. They'd be in the side of a mountain by now.
Most of the stuff on
is a free upgrade to XP Pro!
I'm assuming that question was rhetorical.
...and all I got was this lousy operating system.
(But the T-Shirt wasn't half bad)
Got to get some better packaging. Yeah, that's it.
"I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
Oh. It's just a way to seed Silverlight. Nevermind.
Most of the stuff on
that secretaries listen to that suck so much that they have to give away money every hour to get people to listen.
Microsoft: The most free money every hour!
This test is interesting enough to clog your system with silverlight.
[ ] Fact
[x] Fiction
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I love how the silverlight download wants me to run silverlight.exe to install it... on my Linux box. Probably not going to work. How about some better user-agent checking with a message like: "For your own good, please go away. We are only planning to provide half-baked implementations and lip-service to non-Microsoft platforms".
Q: Vista faces significant compatibility issues with hardware devices
A: Fact!
MS: Are you 100% sure? We supported 1.4M devices at launch and have doubled that number since then. Are you sure
YES / NO
A: YES
MS: You're wrong WRONG! WRONG! Too stoopid to have a computer TRY AGAIN
Q: Vista faces significant compatibility issues with hardware devices
I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that.
.. paranoid crackpot leftover from the days of Amiga.
You want the shirt's 'source pattern'? Here you go. I ... uhh ... reverse engineered it:
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I'm not too familiar with this 'Silverlight'.
Is it equally devastating to both werewolves and vampires?
I actually got them all correct. It is nice to see that you also included the wrong answer in parentheses.
No kidding, it's like watching the White House press secretary.
If we were discussing anything other than Vista, I'd correct your spelling.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
Where's the CowboyNeal option?
Sold more copies of what? XP?
It's the hardware devices that have Compatibility issues with Vista.
Similarly, it's the applications which have trouble integrating with Vista.
How low can you go?
Compared to the hardware you'll need, the OS is downright cheap!
Microsoft is a business, and they certainly like it!
This one's correct, because it is reliable -- reliably slow.
Due to the size of these issues, this "rectification" has produced many goatse look-alikes.
You can't get in trouble online if the computer doesn't work.
I'd say it'll take until the second or third.
But the snarky comments are all mine.
how is babby formed?
Second prize is two copies.
Vista is FAIL - http://wwwfail.com/?url=microsoft.com%2Fvista
I actually did this a while back (the promotion has been running since December 2007 IIRC). They send both a shirt and a certificate (as a Vista certified salesperson) to whatever name you fill in the form. I did it several times with the names "A Retarded Monkey", "Someone Brain-damaged", etc.
I have a certificate on my wall that states "This certifies that An Ignorant Buffoon has reached the level of excellence to qualify as a Vista Certified Salesperson".
(I'm paraphrasing as I'm not in the office at the moment).
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Huh? Didn't you read Microsoft's answers to the Microsoft Vista quiz??!
Windows Vista faces significant Compatibility issues with hardware devices. Fiction! It's just not true!Windows Vista faces significant issues in terms of integrating with other software applications. Also fiction!!!
I think whoever did your planning needs to re-take the quiz so they can learn the real truth. Microsoft's own quiz proves you wrong. Smackdown!
Donate your shirt to charity. Your feelings will go like this:
Living well is good revenge. Being kind can be better. You will never get back the time you wasted but someone can make good use of the results.
What are you complaining about? You Canadians have lots of stuff that Australians don't have, like maple syrup and Dave Foley.
Say, while you're here, I've got a proposition. We'll trade you North Dakota and Michigan's Upper Peninsula for British Columbia. What do you say? OK, we'll throw in this set of steak knives, too.
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Canadians are just Americans with better haircuts.
exactly ;)
How do I uncompress my MD5 archive?
I tip my hat to you good sir. Truly you are one of a kind.
Thank God for evolution.
Well, we have to admit that Vista does offer improved security. (You are trying to insert a line break. [Cancel] [Allow])
There is a faint chance that someone will be able to tell a bad application's UAC warnings apart from those of a good application. (You are trying to insert a line break. [Cancel] [Allow])
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I think UAC might reduce the danger posed from worms etc. by at least an infinitesimal amount. (You are trying to click a button. [Cancel] [Allow]) (The button you have clicked might do something, such as submitting data to a remote server. [Cancel] [Allow]) (UAC will display a warning message now. [Okay]) (You are possibly trying to submit data to a remote server. If this is not the case, please click Cancel immediately. [Cancel] [Allow])
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