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Microsoft Battles Vista Perception With Prizes

Posted by Zonk on from the you-too-may-already-be-a-winner dept.

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."

6 of 342 comments (clear)

  1. Prizes for Teh Lunix? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hear if you can suffer through using Teh Lunix, you get a free bowl of soup!

    And if you don't get hacked within the first half hour, you get a free Ubunghole CD to give to your "friends".

  2. here we go again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    first post

  3. Jane Fonda will soon be hired to apologize by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Communist fucking bitch shithead Jane Fonda is begging micro$oft for a job as their chief apologist for vista, for $10 she will go on Today show and call linux a cunt then say she is sorry she meant vista is a pussy and Bill Gate$ is sorry for taking money from everybody for it and trying to buy himself a nobel prize by claiming to be a humanitarian now he is done getting rich from evil

  4. prior art by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think MS got the idea from the Philipean religious community: "Be nailed to a cross for $5,000!"

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  5. The whole site will be like this? by Erris · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can just imagine the nothing really new, M$ all Silverlight website.

    We're going to give you the opportunity to read something, but you have to let us install our latest proprietary extension.
    CANCEL OR ALLOW?

    Hopefully, the user will chose cancel over M$HTML

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  6. Re:All I read was... by HartDev · · Score: 0, Troll

    Haha right, I got a friend who would rather spend all day hacking Mac OS X then just running Ubuntu, when I tell that Mac Os sucked until they took BSD code he just says he wants to run OS X.....I gotta admit I really want a dock myself!

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