Scroogled Keep Calm Mug

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Scroogled-Keep-Calm-Mug/productID.291428700

by ents • 13 years ago

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joezydeco• 13 years ago

Please, can this finally be the nail in the coffin of the "Keep Calm and <x>" meme?

nsxwolf• 13 years ago

"Keep calm and kill this meme"

Zikes4• 13 years ago

I think that meme was all nailed up and buried a long time ago.

Unfortunately "a long time ago" seems to be Microsoft's primary domain.

splatzone• 13 years ago

Keep Calm and Regurgitate Once-Popular Memes

ok_craig• 13 years ago

Is there a large contingent of bitter MS employees on HN? Does it really need to be explained how the whole scroogled campaign is kind of ridiculous and hypocritical?

shooper• 13 years ago

Is there a large contingent of bitter MS employees on HN?

Huh what? What leads you to that conclusion? I'm totally lost here.

mbrubeck• 13 years ago

I think the implicit question was meant to be "Who is up-voting this post on HN, bitter MS employees?"

Zikes4• 13 years ago

Normally I would think it would be considered a very bad sign when a company is so terrible at convincing you of their own greatness that their only recourse is to attack the competition.

molecule2• 13 years ago

Normally, but not surprising, given the source, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt#Mic...

mtgx• 13 years ago

Keep calm and...wait until we properly encrypt our services - Microsoft

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/encrypt-web-report-who...

DannyBee• 13 years ago

Keep Calm and Focus On Things Other Than The Quality Of Our Own Products.

gagege• 13 years ago

Xbox: Keep calm while we read your biometrics and detect what emotions you're feeling and use that information to do who knows what!

mdellabitta• 13 years ago

http://mashable.com/2013/11/18/xbox-one-facts/

"The Xbox team has stressed that the motion-capturing camera Kinect, which is bundled with every Xbox One, is a much more sophisticated device than its predecessor. The camera can see a lot more of what is happening in the room; it can sense the number of people, see their skeletons, monitor heartbeats and even recognize faces."

At least Google can't see my skeleton...

Zikes4• 13 years ago

Unless the thing fires x-rays, I'm pretty sure they meant "it uses the data to extrapolate a skeleton".

fhars• 13 years ago

Am I the only one who can no longer intuitively differentiate between these geometrically styled logos in four flat primary colors and so was initially confused by this mug?

aray• 13 years ago

It's a whole category of products with shirts, hats, posters and more:

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Scroogle...

(via http://marketingland.com/microsoft-web-store-now-selling-scr...)

xanderstrike• 13 years ago

How incredibly childish.

byjove• 13 years ago

I think it's the hypocrisy that irks me the most about this.

I remember a short while back a Microsoft employee was asking on HN 'why the hate?' Well, THIS (Oh, and the patents thing).

Nerdfest• 13 years ago

The whole patent extortion against Android and Linux is incredible. I'd very surprised the tactics they're using are not actually considered real extortion. Signing an NDA before showing you the patents they're threatening you with?

molecule2• 13 years ago

"steal your data" seems boldly libelous.

lake99• 13 years ago

As an HTC-Android phone user, I'd buy a mug titled "<MS logo> keep calm while we steal your money". Not if MS is selling it, though.

pkulak• 13 years ago

Every time I see this "Scroogled" campaign I think about Microsoft and Google in an elevator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlOSdRMSG_k

rbchv• 13 years ago

They're not stealing my data. I gladly give it to them.

cromwellian• 13 years ago

Google employees might end up buying these. Last time MSFT did the campaign with the slimy Google Docs salesman guy with a tie with Google logo colors, Google employees got the ties made and started wearing them internally.

The best way to deal with this kind of tasteless campaigning is with humor not anger. My guess is whoever runs these campaigns is separate from the product and engineering people, and Microsoft needs to realize it is doing more damage to its brand than Google.

dragonwriter• 13 years ago

Its kind of not surprising that Microsoft's anti-Google strategy looks like a needlessly desperate negative political campaign since it started when Microsoft brought on Mark Penn[1], whose go-hard-negative strategy was so successful for Democratic then-front-runner Hillary Clinton in 2008, to lead its messaging efforts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Penn

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