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Re: Microsoft spokesperson blames ICANN

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Thu Jan 25 10:59:48 2001

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Tim Wolfe wrote:
 
> Microsoft.com is again responding here.  I had to point this out.  On the
> main page (www.microsoft.com) under Today's News (which conveniently makes
> no mention of the fact that they've been offline for a day) They have this
> headline for a story, "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer explains how Microsoft
> software provides the business agility that customers need to stay ahead."
> 
> Can you say irony?  I bet Steve Ballmer can...

It's not irony, it's stupidity. Apparently the marketing group isn't 
intelligent enough to read the news. Apparently, neither is Ballmer. :)


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