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Microsoft Holds iPhone Funeral Event
theodp writes "TechFlash reports that Microsoft celebrated the completion and upcoming launch of Windows Phone 7 on Friday with a 'Windows Phone Pride Parade' complete with zombies, a 'Thriller' Dance, and pallbearers carrying a giant iPhone. 'These kind of "ship" parties are common throughout the industry,' explained Microsoft communications VP Frank Shaw. 'It's a great way for teams that have worked overtime to create a kick-ass product blow off steam and have a little fun.'"
A bit off topic, but I'd like my fellow slashdotters to do me a favor...
If anything ever happens to me, pour out a 40 into the gutter for a money makin' thug.
Then pour out a caffeinated beverage into the gutter for me. I'd prefer RockStar, but Monster or even English Breakfast Tea would suffice.
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
Microsoft has always been robustly anti-competitive. As TFA shows, they aren't even trying to hide the fact that the passion behind their "kick-ass product" is really more like the passion of a temper tantrum than the passion of someone creating something that kicks ass.
Microsoft used to at least be clever about their anti-competitive behavior. Now that Bill Gates left and they aren't even good at being anti-competitive any more, they're basically just an 800 pound retarded, spoiled, wealthy gorilla toward which almost nobody has any remaining good will. I can't imagine that a company more concerned with destroying the competition than with satisfying customers can continue being profitable forever. I am having a hard time seeing how they are going to get themselves out of the predicament they are in, (especially when they don't seem to understand that they are in one.) I suspect they might have to pull an IBM and almost go bankrupt before they finally get around to curing their cranio-rectal inversion.
Registered users can choose the old style, which is why nobody cares about your whining.
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