Why Microsoft Visual Studio advertising sucks today
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I can only think of one industry that does...
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)
Thinking of a career switch? :rolleyes:
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Thinking of a career switch? :rolleyes:
¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow
Who in their right mind would pay to see ME like that? Ok, wait... I'll rephrase... Who in their right mind, wrong mind, or any other mind...
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)
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Oh that is rough. Who thinks this crap up? Worse, who lets them do it?
It's the same guys that thought pairing Gates and Seinfeld in a commercial would be funny.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001 -
That wasn't really that awful, relatively speaking (this IS Microsoft, afterall). I actually enjoy using Visual Studio!
CanslerForce wrote:
I actually enjoy using Visual Studio!
Sure, you like it NOW... But if this is their advertising campaign, imagine the product a few years down the road...
Hi, I'm smiley, the smiley-face planet! I see you've started a new solution. Would you like to: * Write a program? * Write a virus? * Play Minesweeper?"
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)
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CanslerForce wrote:
I actually enjoy using Visual Studio!
Sure, you like it NOW... But if this is their advertising campaign, imagine the product a few years down the road...
Hi, I'm smiley, the smiley-face planet! I see you've started a new solution. Would you like to: * Write a program? * Write a virus? * Play Minesweeper?"
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)
Play Minesweeper! hahaha that's great!
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Your development happy place.[^] X| X| X| X|
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
Advertising agencies aren't interested in moving the merchandise for their clients. Their top priority is to create clever ads that will win ad industry awards, thus enabling them to raise their rates. Honestly. That's a serious answer.
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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Your development happy place.[^] X| X| X| X|
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
I agree. X| OT Change subject: "Why Visual Studio 2008 sucked yesterday" I can tell you why Visual Studio 2008 sucked yesterday for me. So I finally decided to use VS 2008 for my C++ project I am working on. With cmake the project generation and upgrade to Qt-4.6.0 went without any problems at all and my code compiled fine with VS2008 in the new 32 bit VC.90 build tree I added. I experienced no problems until I had to search and then BANG "Visual Studio has experienced a problem and needs to shut down". I restarted Visual Studio and had the same effect. After searching there is supposed to be a fix in SP1. I applied that yesterday and will have to see if it's still broken.
John
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Your development happy place.[^] X| X| X| X|
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
I really like how the whole page is about Visual Studio 2010 and yet the ad at the top has a picture of VS2008. What, they couldn't manage to do a mock up of what the 2010 box would look like?:confused:
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" -- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
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I noticed you linked to the UK version... The US version is worse. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/default.mspx[^] We get a 5yr old drawing how cool it is on top of that slogan. Cause planets and space has everything to do with a stable/bug free developing platform.
Look at it this way. It's actually a fairly smart tactic. We're all talking about the stupidity of the ads, rather than the bloated crapitude of the product. By the time we notice just how big the VS2010 accretion disc[^] is, they'll be hawking VS2013.
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CanslerForce wrote:
I actually enjoy using Visual Studio!
Sure, you like it NOW... But if this is their advertising campaign, imagine the product a few years down the road...
Hi, I'm smiley, the smiley-face planet! I see you've started a new solution. Would you like to: * Write a program? * Write a virus? * Play Minesweeper?"
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)
What? No "Sod it, I'm going to play Solitaire for the 50th straight time this hour" option? *sigh* What's this world coming to? Flynn
Ian Shlasko wrote:
Hi, I'm smiley, the smiley-face planet! I see you've started a new solution. Would you like to: * Write a program? * Write a virus? * Play Minesweeper?"