Frontpage ad...

Does anyone else find this Frontpage advertisement as funny as I do?

http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2026&alloc_id=2509&site_id=2&request_id=2948629&1076027963680

Look carefully...

- Jeff @ DreamHost
- DH Discussion Forum Admin

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I see nothing funny about the ad, whatsoever.
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they just said they've 'cleaned up their act', they said nothing about doing anything correctly.

That's hilarious, well spotted

jason

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Me either, especially since I initially had images blocked from ads.osdn.com. :>
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BobS

LOL! :D THNX for the laugh Jeff.

willscorner.net

Thats funny :)

If their browser does not follow css2 why should their web development program?

I did some testing @ MS on the latest version of FP. I will never do that again. They decided to rename (maybe it's always been that way) a bunch of common terms. Things like "database" were called "Web Stack". Just about everything started with "Web" something.

> They decided to rename (maybe it's always been that way) a
> bunch of common terms. Things like "database" were called
> "Web Stack". Just about everything started with "Web" something.

My guess is that this is a conscious decision - the more time people spend learning Microsoft-sanctioned euphemisms for otherwise industry standard terminology, the less likely that person is to feel comfortable dealing with non-Microsoft software/services.

Notice that they tend not to do this quite as often with software aimed toward professionals, as it would instead work against them. I'm willing to be that people tend to start with Frontpage - not migrate to it from another tool - giving Microsoft a perfect opportunity to insinuate itself into that person's learning process and ensure that they don't leave.

It may seem like a dumb mistake or goofiness on their part, but I'm almost certain that the use of this odd terminology was a conscious decision on someone's part. It's actually a fairly subtle way of achieving lock-in, if you think about it.


- Jeff @ DreamHost
- DH Discussion Forum Admin

Yep, and it's constant with many of their other tactics. That said, the reason I was asked to be there was because of my real-world experience with professional tools (mysql, mssql, php, asp, bbedit...)

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> They decided to rename (maybe it's always been that way) a
> bunch of common terms. Things like "database" were called
> "Web Stack". Just about everything started with "Web" something.

My guess is that this is a conscious decision - the more time people spend learning Microsoft-sanctioned euphemisms for otherwise industry standard terminology, the less likely that person is to feel comfortable dealing with non-Microsoft software/services.

Notice that they tend not to do this quite as often with software aimed toward professionals, as it would instead work against them. I'm willing to be that people tend to start with Frontpage - not migrate to it from another tool - giving Microsoft a perfect opportunity to insinuate itself into that person's learning process and ensure that they don't leave.

It may seem like a dumb mistake or goofiness on their part, but I'm almost certain that the use of this odd terminology was a conscious decision on someone's part. It's actually a fairly subtle way of achieving lock-in, if you think about it.

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Yes, Jeff, that's EXACTLY right. That is the PRECISE PURPOSE behind their seemingly silly little schemes. They try to create a comfy "Microsoft World" for people to live in, just like they do for all their employees, especially at the Redmond "campus". Fortunately, it's not working nearly as well as they would like in the Real World. But they'll keep trying, and trying, and trying... (and forever failing to achieve total domination, I hope!)