Deep Thoughts in Advertising

Ok, so Microsoft officially made their stripped down IDE set free "forever." However, if you look at the web page, check out the following two banner images they used to advertise a programming tool…

I’m not implying that women are not good programmers. I just don’t think a girl with a laptop on a bed/couch is the typical programmer using genuine Microsoft products.

Ok. What the fuck? Is this sex appeal? A new form of Agile development? You can’t get much geekier than an IDE and programming tools. The third one in the rotation is a guy in front of desktop pumping his fist in the air in exultation. Umm.. Yeah.

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  1. Jeff wrote::

    Dude, you don’t pair-program like that at work? Dammit, neither do I. :(

    Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 12:11 am #