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Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft

Posted by samzenpus on from the was-that-wrong? dept.

theodp writes "GeekWire reports on the techno-dance routine that preceded Microsoft's Windows Azure presentation at the Norwegian Developers Conference this week, which featured a group of women jumping around on stage to a song that included several drug references and the line: 'The words MICRO and SOFT don't apply to my penis.' In a strange effort to be inclusive, a monitor displaying the lyrics added, 'or vagina.' The official Windows Azure YouTube channel has posted an apology for 'a skit that involved inappropriate and offensive elements and vulgar language,' and said it's actively looking into the matter. Hey, could've been worse — at least @ASUS wasn't live-tweeting the event!"

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  1. Any bigger PR nightmare? by mattr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It could be worse. I discovered a famous furniture company's name means "ass" in Swedish from some engineers who couldn't stop laughing whenever they would see these boxes everywhere. I couldn't find it in the dictionary so it must be colloquial.

    I wonder is there a way to search whether a made up brand name matches any word colloquial or not in any of the mainstream languages?

  2. Re:What happened to the good old days? by rtfa-troll · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If he sold off his shares, then I might believe you were anything but a piss-poor Troll. But he hasn't.

    Funny you should mention that.

    I'd say that Billy has been selling off Microsoft shares as fast as he possibly can without people noticing too much.

    So whoever modded this +1, kindly go unfuck yourself before attempting further moderation.

    Ah yes. I think we know why you don't have mod points.

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