Is there a large contingent of bitter MS employees on HN? Does it really need to be explained how the whole scroogled campaign is kind of ridiculous and hypocritical?
It's a whole category of products with shirts, hats, posters and more:<p><a href="http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Scroogled/categoryID.67575900" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Scroogle...</a><p>(via <a href="http://marketingland.com/microsoft-web-store-now-selling-scroogled-mugs-65773" rel="nofollow">http://marketingland.com/microsoft-web-store-now-selling-scr...</a>)
Google employees might end up buying these. Last time MSFT did the campaign with the slimy Google Docs salesman guy with a tie with Google logo colors, Google employees got the ties made and started wearing them internally.<p>The best way to deal with this kind of tasteless campaigning is with humor not anger. My guess is whoever runs these campaigns is separate from the product and engineering people, and Microsoft needs to realize it is doing more damage to its brand than Google.
As an HTC-Android phone user, I'd buy a mug titled "<MS logo> keep calm while we steal your money". Not if MS is selling it, though.
Every time I see this "Scroogled" campaign I think about Microsoft and Google in an elevator: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlOSdRMSG_k" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlOSdRMSG_k</a>
Am I the only one who can no longer intuitively differentiate between these geometrically styled logos in four flat primary colors and so was initially confused by this mug?
I think it's the hypocrisy that irks me the most about this.<p>I remember a short while back a Microsoft employee was asking on HN 'why the hate?' Well, THIS (Oh, and the patents thing).