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by **Doc Jon** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:34 pm

GOSD wrote:The Apple ones are so much better..

The pizza one made me LOL.

I like the Apple ads. I'm still not buying one.

by **Lord Simian** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:49 pm

[youtube=425,344,av6fWfmugds]Heh[/youtube]

by **Homerofborg** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:44 pm

Cat-Scratch wrote:I understand that many of the problems have already been addressed with Vista. Don't forget, every year they release a new build with the S-packs already there.

Time for some virtual systems.

Nope there are still some serious problems with Vista:

1: UAC control still needs work you have to click "accept" virtually on everything just to make it go away...

2: DX10 wtf happened to it? If your a PC gamer, DX10 was the holy grail for FPS... Shame they can't port it back to XP...

3: Activation: you know how much is it a pain to activate windows... they need to punish the pirated version with massive popups or something...

4: 64 bit OS... Come on lets break the 2GB window barrier... Everyone knows 4GB is needed to run windows and other software...

Let's see how Windows 7 is in a year and a half...

by **Fenway** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:58 pm

I like the new commercials. They're cool. Though Apple wins in the commercial race. However, I'm still a PC girl. I can use Macs, and they pwn in photoshop, but I like PCs.

by **sdsichero** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:08 pm

Still kind of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot for me. MUCH less so than the bill and jerry show though. I get the message... lots of people find PC usable. But Windows is the big guy in the sandbox, we already knew that...

Also don't see how it ties to their slogan yet (I can guess, but it isn't a nice fit).

by **avengingtitan** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:58 am

I like these new ones. Although I thought the guy with a beard in the first one was Warren Ellis at first.

by **ReturnoftheMack** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:13 pm

Several digital images that Microsoft Corp. has posted on its Web site to trumpet its new "I'm a PC" ad campaign were actually created on Macs, according to the files' originating-software stamp.

Four of the images that Microsoft made available on its PressPass site Thursday display the designation "Adobe Photoshop C3 Macintosh" when their file properties are examined. The images appear to be frames from the television ads that Microsoft will launch later Thursday.

by **john lewis hawk** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:04 am

All computers suck. Haven't met one that I haven't wanted to throw out of a window and into cars on a freeway.

by **Doc Jon** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:08 am

Frag It wrote:Several digital images that Microsoft Corp. has posted on its Web site to trumpet its new "I'm a PC" ad campaign were actually created on Macs, according to the files' originating-software stamp.

Four of the images that Microsoft made available on its PressPass site Thursday display the designation "Adobe Photoshop C3 Macintosh" when their file properties are examined. The images appear to be frames from the television ads that Microsoft will launch later Thursday.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...

by **Regulator** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:20 am

Homerofborg wrote:Nope there are still some serious problems with Vista:

1: UAC control still needs work you have to click "accept" virtually on everything just to make it go away...

2: DX10 wtf happened to it? If your a PC gamer, DX10 was the holy grail for FPS... Shame they can't port it back to XP...

3: Activation: you know how much is it a pain to activate windows... they need to punish the pirated version with massive popups or something...

4: 64 bit OS... Come on lets break the 2GB window barrier... Everyone knows 4GB is needed to run windows and other software...

Let's see how Windows 7 is in a year and a half...

1. That does suck, but I turned it off. The risk of someone actively taking over your PC is negligible and if you have decent virus and malware protection you can prevent most processes from doing things they're not supposed to do.

2. What exactly are you saying? DX10 is there, or games like Crysis wouldn't work.

3. I never had any problems with activation on Vista Ultimate. A little window popped up and said Windows is activated.

4. Again, Ultimate is 64 bit and reads my 4 GB of RAM just fine.

Windows 7 is little more than vaporware at this point, and seeing as how every other Microsoft OS has had delays there's no reason to think this one will be out as promptly as they're predicting two years in advance. Vista was supposed to have all sorts of stuff that didn't make the final cut also, like an NTFS replacement.

by **Allen** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:45 pm

Frag It wrote:Several digital images that Microsoft Corp. has posted on its Web site to trumpet its new "I'm a PC" ad campaign were actually created on Macs, according to the files' originating-software stamp.

Four of the images that Microsoft made available on its PressPass site Thursday display the designation "Adobe Photoshop C3 Macintosh" when their file properties are examined. The images appear to be frames from the television ads that Microsoft will launch later Thursday.

That reminds me of what they did during their trial in federal court a few years ago. They tried to prove how easy it was to switch browsers with a video. Except the video was produced on a mac, while using a mac. The judge in the case was not amused. :lol:

Unfortunately I have to use a Vista PC for work. But I like Macs soooooo much better.

by **Cat-Scratch** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:51 pm

john lewis wrote:All computers suck. Haven't met one that I haven't wanted to throw out of a window and into cars on a freeway.

Ahhhh! You're one of those.

by **Homerofborg** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:19 pm

I should have rephrased my statement on the DX 10... They should have ported DX 10 to Windows XP since everyone is downgrading to XP.... My bad....

by **toolverine** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:21 pm

Frag It wrote:Several digital images that Microsoft Corp. has posted on its Web site to trumpet its new "I'm a PC" ad campaign were actually created on Macs, according to the files' originating-software stamp.

Four of the images that Microsoft made available on its PressPass site Thursday display the designation "Adobe Photoshop C3 Macintosh" when their file properties are examined. The images appear to be frames from the television ads that Microsoft will launch later Thursday.

It's not like they do their own ads. I'm sure they don't require the advertising houses they use to only own PCs.