____/ Linonut on Saturday 22 March 2008 16:48 : \____
> * [H]omer peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Microsoft apparently hopes that a "Jackass" can up its hip quotient
>>> and increase market share
>>
>> Another in a long line of debase marketing techniques, along with a
>> young girl having sex in a car[1]; a man trying to undo a password
>> protected bra[2] (ho ho); and people pretending to shoot each other
>> in a subway station[3].
>>
>>
[1]<http://www.therawfeed.com/2007/05/new-microsoft-ad-features-teen-girls.html>
>
> Saturday, May 12, 2007
> New Microsoft Ad Features Girl's Orgasm
>
> A strange new online ad for Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service
> features a the sound of a girl's orgasm. The ad shows a teenager
> asking her dad if she can stay out late on a date. The dad agrees on
> a 10:30 curfew, then answers the door. When he sees a
> cigarette-smoking punk at the door to take out his daughter, the
> video flashes to a half-second scene showing a car parked in some
> disreputable section of town, bouncing up and down, with the SOUND OF
> THE GIRL'S ORGASM "coming" from inside the car (apparently this is
> what the dad imagines will happen if his daughter stays out
> until 10:30). So then the dad says: "9 o'clock!" All this leads
> up to the pun that Hotmail "helps identify suspicious mail."
>
> Ye gods. Of course, the ad is no longer there.
>
> And I thought the "Naked PC" warnings were grotesque!
>
>> [2]<http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vuHdG_l0NAE>
>
> Yeah, I have this one archived.
>
>> [3]<http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuRQmvykwk>
>>
>> Why don't they just show hardcore pornography and snuff films, and be
>> done with it. That's more their level.
>
> We all know that most digital snuff films are made on Windows machines
> <evil-yet-fatuous grin>.
The Jackass gig says a lot how Microsoft views its customers. Certainly not the
target audience of a $5000 Surface (which, by the way, seems to be DoA...
delays, no coverage, no demand... the Microsoft Bob of the 21st century).
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