MS.com Home Page: Bill Gates, BDLC, and Visual Studio Express

Kudos to Jacqueline for getting the Beginner Developer Learning Center and Visual Studio Express on the home page of Microsoft.com. Screenshot below :)

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 16, 2007
  Wow. I think this is about the single BEST ad I've seen on ms.com. It's simple, it conveys EXACTLY what it's ment to, and frankly, everyone knows who BillG is.... and can recognise him, even 30+ years ago. Bravo. Very nice change.

• Anonymous
  April 16, 2007
  ZOMG!! Brilliant...flat out BRILLIANT! :)

• Anonymous
  April 16, 2007
  T.h.a.t i.s B.i.l.l G.a.t.e.s? [faints] [woo]

• Anonymous
  April 17, 2007
  That's the most ingenious ad MS has done.  You know... had Live pulled this off you wouldn't be living under such fiasco now. Even John Wilcox, the most critical MS writer, praised this: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/inspired_gates.html

• Anonymous
  April 18, 2007
  Saw it yesterday and immediately thought of you and Express. It is also good in that BillG is a great computer programmer (there's extensive proof to that). But back then there were only paper tapes, weren't they. No intellisense whatsoever!

• Anonymous
  October 23, 2007
  It's just Basic.... Cool, the man is just a human like the rest of us.