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By: lightstriker

lightstriker — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:13:24 +0000

I am a PC and I am so repetitive.
I am a PC and I have no imagination.

I am a PC and I am Mojave
I am a PC and I blame my problems on the users.

I am a PC ad and I wish I was rickrolled

By: beanie

beanie — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:42:12 +0000

Prince wrote:
“Dell and Acer continue to seek new ways to use Linux in place of Windows, and as the top PC vendor HP begins its own efforts to create a Windows alternative ”

Linux is a hit in the netbooks category, but more people buy the WinXP version of the netbook. So if Windows OEMs have some kind secret no compete clause, then why are OEMs using Linux?

Daniel wrote that Linux is no competition and developed by volunteers which is a half-truth. It is true it is no competition, but the Linux kernel code is mostly developed by corporations such as RedHat, Novell, IBM and Intel.

Netbooks seem to have popped MacBook Air sales. According to Apple Store top sellers list, it has dropped down to fourth place behind Macbook, Macbook Pro, and iMac.

NetApplications traffic indicate Linux is close to crossing 1%. Usage is probably due to netbooks. If this continues, it might surpass Mac in five to ten years.

By: Netudo

Netudo — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:34:14 +0000

Even with the Ads, I’m sorry for a 2 character multinational company (I used to work for) that dumped Unix for Windows in the last decade. What cool they are going to think windows is, when they realize that few of their scripts work on Vista, and they can’t get XP anymore. Corporate agreements protect companies longer but they don’t last for ever.

By: Steffan

Steffan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:52:38 +0000

“And I’m a PC too.” The third Get a Mac commercial already covered this ground, and turned the ‘embrace and extend’ tables on Microsoft. If they deemed the Microsoft “I’m a PC” ad worthy of response, they could just re-air “Touché.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQh5Cx-EuV8

By: tino

tino — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:39:03 +0000

Near the end of the one ad, Deepak Chopra (or someone doing a very good Deepak Chopra imitation) says “I’m a PC, and a human being” — which I thought was good, because the rest of the ad had been spent denying Microsoft’s customers’ humanity.

But then he goes on to say ‘Not a human doing, not a human thinking; a human being’.

Aside from the annoying pop-psychologyness and faux profundity there, it’s an extremely bizarre statement to find in a Microsoft ad: Windows users spend their time not thinking, and not doing.

The Gates/Seinfeld ads, on the other hand, were genius.