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Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« on: 8 March 2005, 23:30 »
We were once featured in 2002, under the old website name, and we're being featured again, in a story on corporate "sucks" websites.

http://www.forbes.com/home/commerce/2005/03/07/cx_cw_0308hate.html

Or, to jump to the Microsuck profile directly:

http://www.forbes.com/home/commerce/2005/03/07/cx_cw_0308hate_5.html

Cute, no?

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Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« Reply #1 on: 8 March 2005, 23:47 »
Bravo! :)

Too bad they give quite a condescending spin to the story. But of course, what else to expect from a corporate rag. :rolleyes:

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Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« Reply #2 on: 9 March 2005, 01:28 »

look they made a special .gif for us!!  :thumbup:

HINT: avatar idea

Mr X :beos:  :beos:

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Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« Reply #3 on: 9 March 2005, 04:30 »
HAHA!!!  They quoted Kintaro! :D
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Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« Reply #4 on: 9 March 2005, 04:44 »
Holy fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fuck.

Wow.

This is the best day since I became a moderator here around 3 or 4 years ago. I remember then, I felt like I do now, completly fucking estatic. By god, sweet sweet freedom could not have been better.

I just rang my father, brother, and friends to tell them about this.

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Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« Reply #5 on: 9 March 2005, 20:31 »
Quote from: laukev7
Bravo! :)

Too bad they give quite a condescending spin to the story. But of course, what else to expect from a corporate rag. :rolleyes:

huh?

to me it looks like half a page of CommonSense quotes and half a page of X11 quotes, how is that negative?
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Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« Reply #6 on: 9 March 2005, 23:17 »
You should read the first page...

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But while your average disgruntled consumer simply vents their bile by bellowing at a bewildered service rep, a few go farther. Much farther. These perennially peeved people build--and obsessively maintain--sites devoted exclusively to complaining about their least favorite corporations.

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Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« Reply #7 on: 10 March 2005, 00:31 »
The Forbes.com article was just posted to Slashdot. :eek:
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Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« Reply #8 on: 10 March 2005, 00:45 »
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The Forbes.com article was just posted to Slashdot. :eek:


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Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« Reply #9 on: 10 March 2005, 01:29 »
                Forbes Features an anti-microsoft site (Score:0)                                
by jephthah (681398)                 on Wednesday March 09, @06:25PM (#11894820)

heres the quote Forbes pulls from the (representative?) Anti-microsoft website site
[indent] What drug am I "on" you must be wondering? I am on the ecstasy that my laptop is mine, the toxin of Open Source. --- Oh yes, Baby! ---Sweet, sweet, sweet like candy after staying with a diabetic, sweet Linux. [/indent]When Forbes confronted Microsoft about this, their reply was
[indent] No Comment [/indent]

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Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« Reply #10 on: 10 March 2005, 02:51 »
I think they could have come up with some better content to put on the description of this site...

it makes you (dare i say 'us' ?) sound too...


flakey?


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Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
« Reply #11 on: 11 March 2005, 17:50 »
Quote from: Siplus
I think they could have come up with some better content to put on the description of this site...

it makes you (dare i say 'us' ?) sound too...


flakey?


Do you think a magazine targeted at money grabbing fuckfaces would do any better?