Mac TV ads: Gates loses cool
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| Gates isn't impressed by the latest Steve vs Bill goading, but he makes
| the fatal mistake of showing his annoyance.
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| "I've never seen it," he told Levy, before revealing, in so many
| words, that he had.
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| "I don't think the over 90 per cent of the [population] who use
| Windows PCs think of themselves as dullards, or the kind of
| klutzes that somebody is trying to say they are."
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http://www.theregister.com/2007/02/05/gates_apple_outburst/
Apple Envy Seizes Microsoft
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| When put in this context Microsoft just seems so big and slow and
| old, hidebound by 30 years of culture and organizational silos
| that seem impregnable. And it appears that Vista - the product,
| the PR, the marketing approach - is the result of such an
| organization. At times brilliant, very heavy, complicated and
| expensive. This is not a product for today. This is a product
| for an era when the desktop ruled. And that era is long gone.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070206/26163_id.html?.v=2
An Inconvenient Truth?
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| Apple's "Get a Mac" ads are some of the best technology commercials ever
| produced. A new ad digs at Vista's User Account Control.
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| "I think in a lot of ways, Microsoft missed their mark with UAC,"
| said Carol Carpenter, Trend Micro's vice president of consumer
| marketing. "There's that sliding scale between convenience and security."
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/an_inconvenient_truth.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/yvfu3o
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