Microsoft FrontPage ad dripping with irony

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Microsoft FrontPage ad dripping with irony

February 9, 2004

Look at this Microsoft skyscraper ad for FrontPage 2003:

Notice anything? No? Hint: zoom in on line 28.

Source: David Tenser

Posted by Chu Yeow at February 9, 2004 SGT |

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this is too much…
redemption in a blog: Microsoft FrontPage ad dripping with irony

Posted by: jenett.radio on February 9, 2004 1am

That is hysterical. You would think that they could get that right. But no. I get the biggest kick out of Microsoft.

Posted by: Rob on February 9, 2004 3am

MS FrontPage
Looks like they didn’t use FrontPage to create this banner ad. Look at this Microsoft skyscraper ad for FrontPage 2003: Notice anything? No? Hint: zoom in on line 28. Source: David Tenser [redemption in a blog]…

Posted by: Savage Nomads on February 9, 2004 7am

Someone should lose their job over that. Really.

Posted by: Dast on February 9, 2004 10am

Typo aside - this is a very good ad from MS. Self depreciating humor is a great idea in this case and I am going to go see if I can get a copy of MS FP 2003 right now to review.

Posted by: Patrick O'Keefe on February 9, 2004 1pm

Well, it took me a while to notice the / on line 28…because I first noticed the MACROMEDIA Dreamweaver javascript function “ONLOAD=MM_preload….” (frames 2-3)

Macromedia starts all function code with ‘MM_’ … I thought that was funny…then I noticed the dumb / on 28. :P

Posted by: Chris on February 12, 2004 10am

Ha ha! I just noticed that! Ah, the irony…and I use FrontPage to edit my website…it’s a good program, but with an ad like that, err…I don’t think anyone who doesn’t know HTML would catch that. But either way that’s funny.

Posted by: DarkMaster on July 11, 2004 12am