Is there a large contingent of bitter MS employees on HN? Does it really need to be explained how the whole scroogled campaign is kind of ridiculous and hypocritical?
Normally I would think it would be considered a very bad sign when a company is so terrible at convincing you of their own greatness that their only recourse is to attack the competition.
I up-voted the story not because I like the message or because I'm for it but because I want it to be seen. I'm against any kind of "attack" advertising and I'd like to see it discussed, not ignored.
When I saw the comment, the story had 6 points i.e 5 upvotes.
Even making the huge assumption and leap that it was all MS employees and no one else voted on it who thought it was interesting news, I don't know if 5 counts as a "large contingent".
To be clear, I am not in favor of this campaign and I did not upvote the story.
"The Xbox team has stressed that the motion-capturing camera Kinect, which is bundled with every Xbox One, is a much more sophisticated device than its predecessor. The camera can see a lot more of what is happening in the room; it can sense the number of people, see their skeletons, monitor heartbeats and even recognize faces."
Google employees might end up buying these. Last time MSFT did the campaign with the slimy Google Docs salesman guy with a tie with Google logo colors, Google employees got the ties made and started wearing them internally.
The best way to deal with this kind of tasteless campaigning is with humor not anger. My guess is whoever runs these campaigns is separate from the product and engineering people, and Microsoft needs to realize it is doing more damage to its brand than Google.
Its kind of not surprising that Microsoft's anti-Google strategy looks like a needlessly desperate negative political campaign since it started when Microsoft brought on Mark Penn[1], whose go-hard-negative strategy was so successful for Democratic then-front-runner Hillary Clinton in 2008, to lead its messaging efforts.
Am I the only one who can no longer intuitively differentiate between these geometrically styled logos in four flat primary colors and so was initially confused by this mug?
The whole patent extortion against Android and Linux is incredible. I'd very surprised the tactics they're using are not actually considered real extortion. Signing an NDA before showing you the patents they're threatening you with?
