M$ Marketing...

[zuperman]

why the hell microsoft use so many oriental people in the Visual Studio Installation screens... whats their strategy...

[bammoeller]

Yea good question!!!!!!!!! Its goofy

[si_the_geek]

It's probably because that area of the world often goes for Linux etc, so MS are trying to be more "friendly" and less American.

[Arrow_Raider]

Companies now have to use every possible race in their pictures to appear politically correct

[crptcblade]

Because Asian people are smarter than the rest of us, and we should look up to them as our superiors!

[wossname]

I wanna be the token white person.

[gigemboy]

Whats their strategy? I would imagine they are doing what their title is... marketing. Population of asia? 3.6 billion. Population of the U.S.? 300 Million. Thats more than a 10 fold larger market. Asia consists of over half of the world's population...

On a side note, only about 360 million of Asians are online, almost about 10 percent.

[wossname]

...Then they should rename the product:

"Visual Studion 2005 - l337 Skr1pt Kidd13 Ed17ion (tnx in avance, uberroflolo1!!!!1!)"

[gigemboy]

Where are the Hello Kitty themes?

[crptcblade]

Whats their strategy? I would imagine they are doing what their title is... marketing. Population of asia? 3.6 billion. Population of the U.S.? 300 Million. Thats more than a 10 fold larger market. Asia consists of over half of the world's population...

On a side note, only about 360 million of Asians are online, almost about 10 percent.

But most of that market is using pirated copies of microsoft's products anway. So what's the point?

[szlamany]

MS is doing a better job today of verifying a valid install of Windows, for instance - without the validation you cannot download service packs and so on...

So the market will be available for new sales in the future - and that market is truly huge.

[baja_yu]

It is of more interest to them to globalize the market with Windows, even if it is pirated.

[mendhak]

Because Asian women are hot.

[grilkip]

yup.

[gigemboy]

Because Asian women are hot.

Then why not put hot asian women in the pictures

[mendhak]

It's a regional thing. In Texas, they have pictures of Bobby-Sue and Mary-Ann Shelley and dead rats.

[szlamany]

[NoteMe]

why the hell microsoft use so many oriental people in the Visual Studio Installation screens... whats their strategy...

Because if they used Norwegians, they would all blend in with the white background...

[zuperman]

Because Asian women are hot.

they are not...