Microsoft, Hot Wheels, Ford, and Soda
Microsoft, in an effort to remind everyone that people still use its products — “celebrating and inspiring customer heroes” in corporate parlance — recently launched Heroes Happen Here. I won’t bore you with the details of what exactly that means, because doing so would require me to have to bore myself and learn what exactly that means.
Instead, I’m only interested in the event because, as Engadget points out, Microsoft introduced a limon soda to celebrate the HHH launch. Wired noted last year that the software giant is also a soft drink giant.
But corporation-themed sodas aren’t just for Microsoft. Jones Soda launched a Hot Wheels themed soda a few years back. And, as the photo at right indicates, Ford had its own soda machines back in the 1960s. The one pictured is currently listed on Craigslist for $2,495, and is rumored to be perfect “for your Nascar room or for the garage”.
