“Are you living in an underground bunker out of fear of the National Security Agency? ” Alexis Kleinman asks for The Huffington Post. “Are you a Microsoft employee? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, you might be interested in the following product.”
“In a bid to drum up sentiment against the data-hungry search giant, Microsoft has begun selling a line of anti-Google merchandise at its online store,” Kleinman reports. “Whether you’re at home sipping your morning coffee or on the go, there’s gear for you.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Perhaps crockery is a market in which Microsoft could actually make decent products. We bet that cup leaks, though.
Lol
Intentional humour by microsoft with a modicum of success… Who knew?
BSOD – Black Sipper Of Death?
The mug and the T-shirts, already sold out — many of them to Google employees, it’s said!
This is an interesting marketing ploy by Microsoft to promote its Bing search engine which they insist protects your privacy, compared to the reverse for Google’s.
Apple is keeping calm, coolly watching Microsoft jab their mutual adversary Google.
Wow! A cool product from Microsoft!!
No, this is typical MS being lame while thinking it’s cool.
I’m not a big fun of “goggles”, but this is typical mafiasoft strategy. Instead promote their product they try to diminish the product’s competitor.
Don’t they have to have a product to promote? I mean a good one that customers want? Just askin’.
Exactly! Bravo MS.
I am getting one
Ouch…can Microsoft be any subtler about that? LOL. I would be kinda pissed off if I was Guilty Google… oops wait, not really since Guilty Google is….Guilty. LOL
Wow! Finally, a microsoft product I would buy…
I bought MS Office because I had to, I’d buy this because I want to. lol
It’s funny and I’d kind of like one, but Microsoft has no class. Still, it’s better than mock iPhone funerals.
Steve Jobs said that Microsoft has no taste. Now they’re demonstrating just how poor their taste is.
It’s a shame they didn’t put more effort into making Windows 8 less of an unmitigated disaster.
I completely disagree, this was awesome. Win 8 isn’t a complete disaster, it was just foolish to think they could marry a desktop legacy OS to a tablet, but I’m not sure it couldn’t have been done even if MS did not pull it off.
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.” Steve Jobs
Damn, I can no longer proclaim that I would never buy anything from Microsoft. Getting one of these for everyone in the family.
Steve Balmer’s new career: coffee mug maker…
Selling anti-Apple/Gaagle products is Microsoft’s new business model.
How bout Keep calm while we sabotage office365 for iPhones
Or Keep calm while we office for Mac is still lagging behind the pc counterpart. Or Keep calm while we open copy cat apple stores, except we sell copy cat iPads. Or Keep calm while we talk about how you can’t manage iPads in a AD environment because we won’t build tools for it, heh, that’s my favorite. finally, Keep calm while we cry about others not building features for WinPhone8.
Well, this might be interesting. I’m sure that Chrome logo is trademarked. What say ye, Scroogle Legal… got the cease and desist request printed up yet? :-p
Maybe it’s just my British eyes reading it, but shouldn’t the phrase read “Keep Calm whilst we steal your data”, not while?
It may be your British eyes, but shouldn’t it then actually be… “Keepest Calm whilst we steal thine data.”? 😉
Precede that with a “Forsooth and merrily” and add a “nonny nonny” or two at the end and you’ve just about got it 🙂
The “st” forms are not used in American-English. They were dropped a long time ago.
I thought it might be something along those lines. Thanks.
Just to let you know they were dropped a long time ago from British English too (except for one person here it seems). Just thought it best to close that one down before the ‘Quaint Olde England brigade starts to use ‘Ye’ thinking its actually pronounced Ye instead of the and give themselves a heart attack in mirth.
Seriously? You never use either whilst or amongst?
Man, suddenly I feel old.
“Amongst” is still a perfectly good word. Sorry about “whilst”, though. 🙂
I’ve used “amongst,” but not Brit influenced enough to use “whilst.” My biggest exposure to British English was the Beatles. 🙂
Seems like I’m not alone after all. A quick Google of some UK newspaper websites returns a large number of recent articles using one or other of those two words. Here’s one example from a couple of weeks back using whilst in the headline:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/channelislands/10424049/Rescue-plane-crashes-whilst-searching-for-missing-dinghy.html
And the Independent use -st forms of the words all the time, even in yesterday’s article about the launch of the new XBox.
(And I know this means Google just data captured that search too ;-))
Yeah Dave H. But also scan just about articles at ‘The Register’ and notice all the cockney vernacular and witticisms, for which dear Mummy would slap you if she heard you said them aloud. 😉
Today’s special example, taken from one of The Register’s many articles about the 50th Doctor Who celebration:
And unless you’ve been lost up Uranus or only watch ITV, you’ll be as ready for the Who anniversary as we are with our month of specials.
Hardy har.
LOL! You don’t know my mother. It’s more likely I’d have to slap her for being vulgar 😀
I may have met her while I lived over there. Next time I’ll take her into consideration. 😉
Personally I have no problem with one crappy company ripping another crappy company apart. Plus this is just funny, albeit in a sad sort of way.
The most important thing to remember is that MS really doesn’t give a crap about your privacy or selling your personal information. This is just about protecting browser (and other MS products) market share. I have no doubt MS would sell their customers’ soul given the opportunity.
This may finally be a record selling product for mocrosoft!
Wonder if they’ll announce the number of units sold…
Wow. Microsoft could actually make a huge come back, simply by selling anti google stuff!
Quote: “MacDailyNews Take: Perhaps crockery is a market in which Microsoft could actually make decent products. We bet that cup leaks, though.”
You stupid, stupid little people. You do nothing but pilfer stories from around the web in order to sell ad space. You know nothing about running a business and you sit there all arrogant, self-absorbed and proud of your snide little comments. Jerks.
Uh oh. Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays!
C’mon, bring it in to hug harbor…Mmmm, feels better doesn’t it?
I think our pet generic anonymous coward paid by Samsung troll is tiring of me picking on him.
I’m not!
Oh the irony in Microsoft stealing the design idea of an original UK Ministry of Defence campaign. Having dine so after almost everyone else on the planet has already done so only rubs in their lack of innovation I guess.
Microsoft still can’t stop copying. They should have at least come up with their own slogan, not some played out one.
Yep, MS is crooked and makes crappy products, but I despise Giggle and Amazon. Their ‘business’ models violate everything I know about privacy, freedom, and confidentiality.
Well IF IT DID LEAK….
Microsoft would start selling a saucer to catch the leak. It would feature a highly absorbent material. It would require a subscription to replace the material.
Also… Seems there is an pun going on with “data” and “leak” in the MDN Take. Maybe not.
I find it hypocritical that the company that was so eager to provide its user data to the NSA would be attacking Google.
They should sell a robotic monkey boy figurine. A small onboard water tank could be used to mimic the sweat stains.
‘Wetsy Ballmer’
Does this mug make whatever drink you pour into it tasteless like the maker of the mug?
Google has fully deployed “private search” whereby the search phrases that you type into Google are no longer shared with the websites that you visit. But who still gets the collect that list of search term? Yup, Google So much for their privacy policy.
As the old saying goes, desperate people do desperate things.