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pman68 · Apr 20, 2005, 10:29 AM

According to Mac Daily it was made on a Mac! Why am I not surprised?

BoomStick · Apr 20, 2005, 10:38 AM

So XP is now an encyclopedia?

I guess with the mountains of patches and drivers it could be considered one, especially with all of the viruses and spyware it stores.

Superchicken · Apr 20, 2005, 10:41 AM

Dang... I really want a Window mounted on my Chest that expels all the creativity from my body leaving me an unhappy shell with curly hair... think that's what they were going for?

mishap · Apr 20, 2005, 04:15 PM

[QUOTE=pman68]According to Mac Daily it was made on a Mac! Why am I not surprised?

Of course. Why would it surprise you that creatives hired to create it were using macs? you think microsoft cares?

what's the big deal?

pman68 · Apr 20, 2005, 04:18 PM

[QUOTE=mishap]

Originally Posted by pman68

According to Mac Daily it was made on a Mac! Why am I not surprised?

Of course. Why would it surprise you that creatives hired to create it were using macs? you think microsoft cares?

what's the big deal?

I do think Microsoft cares. Did you notice the point of the ad?

Mafia · Apr 20, 2005, 04:21 PM

apples > oranges > bananas

jasonsRX7 · Apr 20, 2005, 04:22 PM

Originally Posted by Superchicken

Dang... I really want a Window mounted on my Chest that expels all the creativity from my body leaving me an unhappy shell with curly hair...

I think it's a popup window, someone probably installed Kazaa on him.

ironknee · Apr 20, 2005, 04:32 PM

they even used a black cursor

DeathMan · Apr 20, 2005, 04:42 PM

[QUOTE=pman68]

Originally Posted by mishap

I do think Microsoft cares. Did you notice the point of the ad?

The ad is to show learning and growth in a child, not print design. I don't see your point.

MacMan4000 · Apr 20, 2005, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by ironknee

they even used a black cursor

I was gonna say that too... you beat me too it.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Apr 20, 2005, 07:46 PM

On the plus side it is a very nice looking ad.

Kilbey · Apr 20, 2005, 08:13 PM

It's only slightly better than the dinosaur ad series which are so bad they are funny.

More commentary here.

theolein · Apr 20, 2005, 09:36 PM

Microsoft is busy running an ad on TV here on Switzerland (and I suppose just about everyhwere else too) about how Microsoft is Your Passion� etc. It's the one where you see people doing things and then white squiggly lines get drawn on the screen which are then supposed to evolve into your dreams.

HP was also running a series of ads last year before Carly finally got canned where a cross would do a whole series of graphic effects on the screen suppoesedly showing just how wonderful HP is.

Contrast this to IBM's ads. IBM has ads with painfully unfunny geeky guys making jokes about blades and servers and stuff and how their services speed up your business. The ads are really painful, they are so unfunny, but they advertise a concrete product.

Microsoft and HP just waffle around like crazy for ages with super duper effects and never ever actually show their damn products. No one can actually tell exactly what it is that Microsoft or HP do by looking at their ads. This one is no exception. Can you tell what Microsoft does from that image, except for forgetting to get their ad agency art department to use the right cursor? This ad campaign will do Microsoft as much good as HP's campaign did them: nothing. It's a waste of money because no one is interested. And the ironic thing is that the cause of this campaign is most probably exactly because no one is interested. The only reason they would start a campaign like this is because interest in their products is not exactly growing in leaps and bounds.

I remember Apple doing exactly the same thing back in Gill Amelio's days, where they took out full colour double page ads with masses of text (small text) explaining how great the Mac was. No one read the ads. They were too complex. When Steve Jobs came back to Apple one of the first things he did was fire their ad agency at the time and get Chiat Day back, which is the company that makes the simple one liners/catch phrase understatment advertising today. And it works.

The last time Microsoft did a campaign that was good was the Win95 campaign.

OwlBoy · Apr 20, 2005, 11:23 PM

I have to say I like some of IBMs ads. Just not those ones with the guys in the coffee shops...

-Owl

CRASH HARDDRIVE · Apr 20, 2005, 11:26 PM

Ahh irony. ONLY Mac users give this much of a crap about Windows.

The Godfather · Apr 20, 2005, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by CRASH HARDDRIVE

Ahh irony. ONLY Mac users give this much of a crap about Windows.

:thumbup:

MilkmanDan · Apr 21, 2005, 01:38 AM

"Danger: Your child has preformed an illegal operation."

I hate it when my children blue screen.