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Microsoft gets into clothing
SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has decided that it should branch into to clothing.
It seems that the shy and retiring, softly spoken, CEO Steve 'there is a kind of hush' Ballmer sees himself as a latter day Vivienne Westwood only with less hair.
Although judging by the range of tee shirts on offer Steve is to fashion what Damien Hurst is to art. Most of them celebrate the age of DOS, although one of them has a picture of a teen Sir William Gates III when he was busted.
The range is called "software by Microsoft" which according to the website "taps into the nostalgia" which was the period when "computers were about to change out lives."
We would have thought that Vole would have avoided the colour blue in the range, but apparently it hasn't.
The gear has been released with a Volish partner www.thinkcommon.com which is like Apple's think different only with a lot more originality.
Much to our surprise they are going to be distributed in the fashion houses in the US.
Sheesh in our day the industry used to send us tee shirts and we didn't have to pay to wear their logo.
Still lets hope they don't get Steve to model it. µ
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You guys are seriously late to this one, this isn't news, it's history already.
Jeez, go to any Microsoft conference for the last 15 years and they have a store set up where you can buy all sorts of MS branded wear.
Maybe Microsoft is branching out and trying to get their clothes onto shelves of more traditional consumer stores. But they've had the branded clothes forever.
It is inspiring that Microsoft keeps on expanding to markets that others have already developed. Operating systems, all kinds of software, game consoles, MP3 players, phone OS's, and now clothing! I hope they make monkey-suits so loyal customers can emulate the behaviour of their role-model CEO! More money to ya, Stevo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
I'd rather have a genuine Digital Equipment Corporation polo shirt anyway.
I wish the assignors and successors of Mentec, Inc. would just donate their PDP-11 software to Open Source. At least you can get OpenVMS from HP still.