Sinister Midget <fardblossom@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On 2008-03-25, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>> Scolded, Microsoft Takes Blame For Swarms of Butterfly Decals
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The corporation accepted the blame yesterday for hundreds of plastic
>>| butterfly decals that were affixed across the face of Midtown Manhattan as
>>| part of a $300 million promotional campaign for its new MSN 8 Internet
>>| service.
>> `----
>>
>> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E6DD1E3CF935A15753C1A9649C8B63&scp=2&sq=dunlap+microsoft&st=nyt
>
> Don't they realize their new campaign would have been a thousand times
> more effective had they affixed those decals to car, truck and bus
> windshields? It would have been a perfect pitch had they placed them
> right in the middle of the driver's view so (s)he could think about
> them on the commute around the city.
>
They should've been 3D objects, in the spirit of Vista, rather than
almost 2D flat thingies. Glued to the centre of the windscreen, had
they been long enough, they driver could've used them as an alternative
method for determining the distance to the object in front.
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