I have been watching the reaction to the recent advertising for Microsoft. One person who’s reaction I was genuinely interested in was that of M.G. Siegler who’s review you can read at Venture Beat. I always enjoy reading M.G’s commentary, even though he is a total fanboy for Apple, he had some nice things to say about the ad.
Even though I work at the ‘SOFT’, I have never really seen my self as a "fanboy". Whether it is my preference of LAMP stack for a most web applications I want to build or my interest in, as Jay Cuthrell put it on twitter last night, "being a part of the multicore generation that places emphasis on the images per device vs. the box per OS mindset."; I believe that each machine is simply a tool.
I don’t think these ads will change the opinion of any Mac fanboys. The reality is that any fanboy blogger is going to say these ads are ripping off Apple. On the other hand hopefully these ads will allow us to have a voice in the marketplace again. Microsoft has been to quiet for too long.
I enjoyed the new ads and it will be interesting to see how they are received by the non-fanboy techie marketplace. How they are received maybe directly linked to what happens next.
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I started building PCs when WinNT & 95 where out and have done my share of cursing at Microsoft for a BSOD after swapping out a nic or installing a bit of software. I have also had two Macs over the years and still prefer Windows.
Back in the day Mac seemed a better choice for image and video editing however with the quad-core and advanced bus speed I don’t think that is an issue anymore.
Besides Mac is rather hubris to tell me I don’t need to right click!