Whoa, was that Microsoft ad the most surprising this about this post to anyone else? Maybe it's because negative advertising in the Republican primary is being discussed so much here in the US, but to me that seems like a massively bad idea on the part of Microsoft. Do they do absolutely no targeted advertising with Bing, Hotmail, or their other web services? I find that a little hard to believe.
I guess I shouldn't be that surprised that they've resorted to attack ads though; Office 365 is one of the worst web apps I've ever used. I don't even necessarily disagree with their general goal of educating people about how Gmail works, but that's like a textbook definition of FUD if I've ever seen one.
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Whoa, was that Microsoft ad the most surprising this about this post to anyone else? Maybe it's because negative advertising in the Republican primary is being discussed so much here in the US, but to me that seems like a massively bad idea on the part of Microsoft. Do they do absolutely no targeted advertising with Bing, Hotmail, or their other web services? I find that a little hard to believe.
I guess I shouldn't be that surprised that they've resorted to attack ads though; Office 365 is one of the worst web apps I've ever used. I don't even necessarily disagree with their general goal of educating people about how Gmail works, but that's like a textbook definition of FUD if I've ever seen one.