Azure Marketing: "The words micro and soft don't apply to my pęnis (or vagina)"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUMjxnKzUlQ#t=1m25s

by johns • 14 years ago

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johns• 14 years ago

For reference, this was a Microsoft-sponsored Azure promotional stunt at a (otherwise great) developer conference in Norway this week.

I had to change a character in the title to prevent it from being filtered.

CodeCube2• 14 years ago

So that's where Aqua went ... they're working at Microsoft!

andrejewski• 14 years ago

Ha.

petercooper• 14 years ago

It may not be surprising that Microsoft is OK with dancing girls in skimpy shorts representing their brand at a tech conference, but it surprises me the organizers would be OK with this after all of the sexism dramas of even just the last year.

Some speakers at the conference are also mentioned in the song and have expressed surprise and distaste at this on Twitter. For example, they say "Lea Verou will make your dreams come true" and she noted: "I think mine tops all of them in terms of cheesiness and creepiness."

A bad showing from both Microsoft and the conference organizers who failed to screen or stop this (although, to give fair dues, everyone is saying the rest of the conference was superb).

P.S. The "or vagina" is not in the actual lyrics - but, I suspect, to the prompter merely to make it seem all "politically correct." No. That's not how you make sexist BS OK.

CodeCube2• 14 years ago

I just can't imagine how that meeting went ... this was planned by someone, more than one person even. How did no one say, "hmm, maybe this isn't the most tactful approach".

Azure Marketing: "The words micro and soft don't apply to my pęnis (or vagina)"

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