July 9, 2007

the virus spreads…

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MSFT’s Steve Clay­ton on the Blue Mons­ter: “This is about Mic­ro­soft on our terms — open to all and owned by the world. Rock on.”
[Meanwhile:] The groovy cats over at MSFT’s On10 have pin­ged the Blue Mons­ter story.

Bea­ring the tagline, “Mic­ro­soft: Change the world or go home,” the Blue Mons­ter repre­sents the vision and the pas­sion of the company’s emplo­yees: so pas­sio­nate about what they do, if they can’t make the world a bet­ter place, they should go home. Maybe the mons­ter is just what Mic­ro­soft needs to draw more atten­tion to the fact that, des­pite the law­yers and stockhol­ders, they, too, have pas­sio­nate emplo­yees who feel like they are chan­ging the world in a posi­tive way.

The Blue Mons­ter was refe­rred to as “Microsoft’s unof­fi­cial mas­cot.” That made my day.
[UPDATE:] The Blue Mons­ter finally makes it onto Tech­meme. Thanks, Sarah! Very cool.

3 Responses to “the virus spreads…”

  1. James says:

    Good to see it coming to the fore­front after nearly a year since inception.

  2. hugh macleod says:

    Thanks, James… I’m always saying, it takes about 2 years for a good, las­ting blog virus to get good n’ deadly ;-)

  3. tomdog says:

    I think the Blue Mons­ter visage should be twea­ked just a little bit to show it’s unhap­pi­ness with the enter­tain­ment and devi­ces divi­sion that will have lost the com­pany the bet­ter part of $8 billion in less than 5 years.