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Micro$oft XP 'Hacked' in Bristol and London

culture jammers | 30.11.2001 16:53

Subvertising the Paradigm - Microsoft's new operating system XP, gets its advertising campaign rebooted by creative linux pixies....

Micro$oft XP 'Hacked' in Bristol and London
Micro$oft XP 'Hacked' in Bristol and London



Top - Bristol - Fatal Error: Use Linux
A38 billboard picked up bt The Register at:
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/22837.html

Bottom - London - Suddenly Everything Sucks!
 http://mirrors.meepzorp.com/xpsucks/

Who says London's trendy East End isn't as creative as it used to be?

This inspired bust of the MSXP "Suddenly everything clicks" poster is situated at an incredibly busy junction near Liverpool Street Station - tens of thousands of people will see it every day. We spotted it from the top of a bus and it made our day. It's all 100% cut-and-paste and it's really high up - so mad props to whomever did the Spiderman routine to get all the way up there.

Was previously posted at:
 http://freespace.virgin.net/andrew.harrison4/
which due to success of viral marketing (everyone like to laught a M$) now says:

IT'S GONE... Too much demand necessitates moving the 'Suddenly Everything Sucks' picture

There was just too much traffic for Virgin Net's servers to handle. Apparently this link got forwarded to a lot of places. However you can still see the original page at a mirror provided by selfless and friendly people here.
The ad itself has also gone, removed some time this week from its position at the Bishopsgate Goods Yard. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

culture jammers

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  1. nice one — Leon Cszolsk
  2. pics stuffed by current imc server problems — -
  3. help — ben
  4. other subvert sites — -
  5. Linux and Java Religion — The Rev