Posted Mike Volpe on 9/18/08 10:52 PM
I recently wrote about how much the new Mircosoft TV ads suck. But, now I see they have some new ads that are much better.
They are not funny, but they do counter the Mac vs. PC ads, and they do show pretty successfully that PC users are cool people doing cool stuff. Sure, their money would be better spent making cool products that people actually like, but if they can't do that at least their ads are a bit better.
Posted Mike Volpe on 9/11/08 12:44 AM
If I were a Microsoft stockholder, I would be so pissed that the company is spending millions of dollars running ads trying to "change its image".
The ad is stupid. There is nothing to back up the assertion that they are cool. In fact, Bill Gates buying discount shoes at a mall and eating a churro is anything but cool.
Anyone with half a brain sees right through the ads and then says... how about you take a few of those millions and build an operating system that is actually an upgrade from XP (unlike the downgrade that Vista currently is).
Unless... maybe the whole point of the ads is for us to all start talking about how much the ads suck, rather than how much Vista sucks? Perhaps Bill Gates is still a genius afterall.
Posted Mike Volpe on 3/21/08 11:00 AM
I have this annoying problem in IE where it is displaying the wrong favicons (the little icons next to the URL and on the browser tab). So when I am on Google, it will show the icon for StumbleUpon, or something else. Evertying else works, but for some reason this really pisses me off.
I found some forums posts about it, but would the geeks at Microsoft just fix the darn problem?
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6620_102-0.html?forumID=14&threadID=229993&messageID=2383289