http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008-09-18-microsoft-ads-seinfeld_N.htm -- Microsoft's new ads take a direct shot at Apple
I can understand Microsoft's viewpoint . . . their new ads are trying to fix their public image a bit. Vista has tanked, and users are frustrated and Apple has an a foothold and is gaining ground. Linux people are patting themselves on the back saying how wonderful their GUI is now and meanwhile it still doesn't do anything useful. I have been in the computer industry over 20+ years now and a majority of those years was as a advocate (slave?) for Windows systems. I always dismissed the Mac platform as toys for artists/writers/etc...
Guess what . . . they aren't toys. Last night I was able to create this video for our church . . .it's my 3nd effort at this and it was just fun and easy. Not a PC experience . . . or more importantly Windows experience. I have tried to do this type of thing in the past . . . and failed. I've spent days on Windows software to just get a video put together . . . never mind having fun doing it and going "oh - what if I did this?" My choice of computer systems and their underlying architecture is for one purpose -- to get what I want (and most importantly God wants) done in a timely manner. It's a tool -- just like a socket wrench. I can pick up a socket wrench that is a good tool and simply use it . . . it fits in my hand, works, and doesn't have it's mechanism falling apart.
And just for the record . . . guess how those ads are created?
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9115120 --Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' ad images made on Macs
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