Microsoft’s newest rounds of ads directly target Apple’s highly succesful “Get A Mac” ads. He’s back. Yep, your old friend PC. But wait! Hey… that’s not the “real” PC! You guessed it. Microsoft has a PC look-alike sporting the latest rounds of the $300M budget Bill Gates Co. has shelled out to let people know that it’s okay to be stuck with Vista. No, really.. you’re in good hands because The Apple Store is right down the street.
Check the rest of them out on YouTube by searching for “I’m A PC.”
June 26, 2008 at 2:42 PM · Filed under MS / Windows
With recent shipments of failure from the Microsoft camp, including a rather useless Service Pack 3 for aged XP and a “Reliability” Service Pack update for Vista SP1, their users have been speaking out for years since the release of Windows Vista in late 2006. And surprisingly (not), major companies are speaking out about just how featureless and lacking Microsoft’s latest Operating System is.
Intel Corporation has dedicated that they’re not going to run Vista. Period. According to the New York Times, “Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista.” Intel’s IT staff arrived at their decision after a lengthy cost-benefit analysis. It has yet to be seen what kind of heat Microsoft will put on top Intel execs for the decision to keep Windows XP alive. I mean, come on. Issue a brand new Service Pack after about 4 years and then turn around and announce you’re officially canning the entire Operating System (XP)?
Don’t worry! Windows 7 will save us all. Just keep praying to the almighty software giant.
Well, it appears I’m going to be using Microsoft Vista for a little while. Yesterday, my Hackintosh started to freeze up every couple of hours. After further investigation I realized that my USB ports, among other things, were failing on the motherboard. Serves me right for going sub-bargain-basement. I’m going to give my Mac hacking a rest for 4-6 weeks since it looks like the cat’s out of the bag and Mac OS X Leopard isn’t going anywhere new and exciting for a while.
Which leads me back to my first sentence. Yep, Windows Vista. Why did I do it, you might ask? Well, after being a hard core Windows XP guru since the pre-alpha days of Whistler when it was nothing more than Windows 2000 with some…. “stuff,” I’m looking for the next computer challenege to keep me busy and I think Vista’s just what I need. I’m still trying to get Vista “just right” so it’s usable with all my frequent applications including a wide range of high-end Adobe products. We’ll see how that goes as my next article will show you how to really make Vista fly, and I’m not talking about the common bullshit ways…
