[plug] [OFF TOPIC] MS Humour...
Navarre
navarre at omen.net.au
Mon Mar 8 20:15:38 WST 1999
And who can simply state that MS, that is M$, is not a disease for
computers runing at epademic proportions?
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Kim Covil wrote:
>
> Not sure if you lot have seen this... Date is old but it the first time
> I have seen it pass by... :)
>
> >>From the UK edition of 'PC Week' 31 march, 1998:
> >
> > "The residents of Silicon Valley are more confused than usual after a
> >billboard campaign by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society of America.
> > "One of the ads uses the slogan "MS: It's not a software company"
> >exploiting the fame of a certain company to draw attention to an altogether
> >worthier cause. Requests to comment on the campaign have been met by a surly
> >silence by Microsoft which doesn't relish the association of ideas, but is
> >painfully aware that it can't afford to appear insensitive over such an
> >issue.
> > "Seasoned IT professionals will have no trouble telling the two MS's
> >apart. One is a debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that
> >renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. The other is
> >a disease."
>
> Kim
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