Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:37:54 -0800 From: "Jen Kilmer (Exchange)" Subject: re: Horrendous Rumor > Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:01:02 -0500 > From: lharding@psych.org > Subject: Horrendous Rumor > Just pray that this is someone's sick idea of a joke: > PC Week for Nov. 1 has this item in its computer gossip column: > "Microsoft might be bringing in some heavy artillery to promote > Windows 2000. A friend of a friend . . . hears that the Redmondians > are negotiating with the Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen, to use > "Born to Run" as the launch and advertising theme for the new OS." > > Say it ain't so, Bruce. I suspect it was just someone's outrageous > hope. Thanks to Paul, my husband, for spotting this. > > Leannah Well, Leannah, I haven't heard anything about it -- not that I would (techs mix with marketing? ooo! marketing germs! :) but speaking as someone who's been working on Windows 2000 off and on for several years, I think "Badlands" or "Darkness On The Edge Of Town" would be more appropriate. :) :) :) - -Jen "There is no problem that cannot be solved by chocolate." - - Buffy, in "Fear, Itself"