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October 30th, 2009

Pre-Halloween scare-off: Bing middle school jingle vs. VS 2010 bug killer

Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 11:59 am

Categories: Corporate strategy, Development tools, Housekeeping, Search, Visual Studio 10 ("Hawaii")

Tags: School, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Development Tools, Corporate Communications, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Which is more frightening — Microsoft convincing a bunch of middle school students to sing the Bing jingle or the antics of sleep-depraved developers trying to stomp the remaining bugs out of Visual Studio 2010?

It’s the pre-Halloween scare-off. Here’s the Channel 9 night of the living bug killers video:

And the Pennsylvania middle school Bing squad in action:

Which is scarier?

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Happy Halloween!

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RE: Pre-Halloween scare-off: Bing middle school jingle vs. VS 2010 bug killer
ohh boy now they are using kids... It's a really smart strategy that gives results but it swooping a bit low...

Regards,
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Posted by: Salt.V Posted on: 12/09/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Visual studio is for serial killers  Linux Geek | 10/30/09
This is why Microsoft will never learn!  docquesting@... | 10/30/09
RE: Pre-Halloween scare-off: Bing middle school jingle vs. VS 2010 bug killer  jshanleynyc@... | 10/31/09
RE: Pre-Halloween scare-off: Bing middle school jingle vs. VS 2010 bug killer *NEW*  Salt.V | 12/09/09

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