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There was a time when Microsoft ads were a bit more entertaining than the current "dinosaur head" offerings which have of late been baffling adults and scaring small children worldwide.
The proof comes in this hitherto-unseen-in-the-civilised-world shocker for MS Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003:Fantastic. For the record, an MS operative confirmed this morning that this is "an old advertisement which ran only in New Zealand for a short period and is no longer being used". For the love of all that's Holy, why not?
[ed: The ad shows a woman teacher in bed with a student. It's worth a mouse click. -tadelste]
Thought-bubble from the geek replaces "what price are you paying..." ad copy with:
"Friday night defrag and spam-flushing meetings; twice-monthly spybot and spambot cleanups so she they'll let her machine back onto the campus backbone; panic calls to get her Word DOC files to open in Word by way of my copy of OpenOffice; and she's about due for a reinstall with all her personal stuff saved off to my thumbdrive. Thank you, Microsoft!"
Comic-sans copy replaces bottom text with:
"Hey, geeks, we've got a good thing going. Let's not louse it up with that OpenOffice and Linux stuff, okay? -- Bill Gates"
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"Friday night defrag and spam-flushing meetings; twice-monthly spybot and spambot cleanups so she they'll let her machine back onto the campus backbone; panic calls to get her Word DOC files to open in Word by way of my copy of OpenOffice; and she's about due for a reinstall with all her personal stuff saved off to my thumbdrive. Thank you, Microsoft!"
Comic-sans copy replaces bottom text with:
"Hey, geeks, we've got a good thing going. Let's not louse it up with that OpenOffice and Linux stuff, okay? -- Bill Gates"