What were they thinking? Was:Re: Linux and Football

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:33, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2004, at 1:48 PM, Bart Garst wrote:
>
> > And an office staff dancing, fist-pumping, and dog-piling over a new
> > version of MS Office isn't weird?
>
> I guess I missed that one. I remember one with butterflies and some
> boring one about a server.
>
> The last one I remember where MS was actually trying to promote an OS
> was the one where they had Mick Jagger singing that song with the
> refrain "You make a grown man cry." And sure enough, the OS did reduce
> some people to tears over the ensuing years.
>
> That was a great commercial: bouncy, memorable and painfully honest.
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that was Windows 95 wasn't it - Start Me Up - good tie in, good
promotion.

The ads that are currently running for Office 2003 are odd in that they
feature people celebrating because they of what they achieved using the
new Office. They are being broadcast all over tv these days so you must
not be watching much.

Craig