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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: CommonSense on 8 March 2005, 23:30

Title: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: CommonSense 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?

Title: Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: Laukev7 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:

Title: Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: MrX on 9 March 2005, 01:28

(http://images.forbes.com/images/2005/03/07/hate_msft.gif)
look they made a special .gif for us!!  :thumbup:

HINT: avatar idea

Mr X :beos:  :beos:

Title: Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: WMD on 9 March 2005, 04:30

HAHA!!!  They quoted Kintaro! :D

Title: Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: Kintaro 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.

Title: Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: Calum 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?

Title: Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: Laukev7 on 9 March 2005, 23:17

You should read the first page...

Quote

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.

Title: Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: WMD on 10 March 2005, 00:31

The Forbes.com article was just posted to Slashdot. :eek:

Title: Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: KernelPanic on 10 March 2005, 00:45

Quote from: WMD

The Forbes.com article was just posted to Slashdot. :eek:

Cue influx of freaks...

Title: Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: Laukev7 on 10 March 2005, 01:29

                Forbes Features an anti-microsoft site (Score:0)                                
by jephthah (681398) (http://slashdot.org/%7Ejephthah) (http://images.slashdot.org/neutral.gif) (http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=check&type=friend&uid=681398)                 on Wednesday March 09, @06:25PM (#11894820 (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=141945&cid=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]

Title: Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: Siplus 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?

Title: Re: Microsuck.com featured on Forbes.com (again)!
Post by: Kintaro 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?