Microsoft Causes Internal Family Strife

techmuse writes "Fresh from its ad featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld eating churros and discussing shoes, Microsoft has introduced a new advertisement in which the aging former CEO and comedian take up residence with a family, causing infighting and malicious plots by the family members. Although the ad does not mention Microsoft's operating system directly, it does mirror the real world experience of the company's products — appearing where not wanted, hard to remove, causing administration headaches, and finally being forced out in hopes of getting one's living space back."

Comments

I want to see one

[2.7182]

where Bill is ordered by a judge to be the sys admin for FSF as punishment for monopolisic activities.

Re:I want to see one

[Bryansix]

Gates is not a technical person. He doesn't know squat about anything beyond where the start button is and how to send an email.

Re:I want to see one

[Anonymous Coward]

How are the knee scabs healing up, winfag?

Re:I want to see one

[Bryansix]

You mean MSNBC right? Well they did just fire Olbermann so that's good but before that they were pretty much full of vitrolic bias.

Re:I want to see one

[Bryansix]

He thought nobody would need more then 512k of RAM?

Re:I want to see one

[Bryansix]

Well if you set the bar that low anybody can clear it.

Re:Selling the big lie

[The Dancing Panda]

They have ridden the wave with mediocre email apps and web browsers, but that's not much to crow about.

So...just as a thought exercise, can you give me an example of a *good* email client? I mean, if Outlook is so mediocre, what exactly would you describe as good?

No, outlook is not perfect, but I'd really like an example of a good email client.

And just like Microsoft...

[Shotgun]

they allow a senile grandmother work on major portions of it, when she obviously doesn't know which side the headgasket is on.

If you want to check for a blown headgasket. Pull the dipstick. The oil will look like mocha cappacino. No need to go under the car.

Macrumors comments section

[HoaryCripple]

I hate apple fanbois. They are the worst trash on the planet. I have a macbook pro (gift) and I tried OSX for a couple hours. It stinks. OSX got deleted very quickly and in went linux. Now my mac is basically a PC running linux and X. As opposed to a PC running BSD and Aqua. So I guess my gripe is really with Aqua. Aqua stinks. But I have to say that apple did a good job with the macbook design.

Re:Macrumors comments section

[pandrijeczko]

Apple fanbois exist purely because of clever Apple marketing.

Macbooks and OS X are marketed as "exclusive" products so that to appeal to a minority who need to feel part of an elitist club without having to work at it - let's face it, anyone who chose to use Linux to make a political statement would like an idiot unless he/she spent a lot of time learning how to work with it. Apples are, to my knowledge, easy to use and therefore save on spending time with a steep learning curve.

Incidentally, this isn't a direct criticism of OS X because in 30 years of computing I've never found a reason to own one single Apple product so I can't comment on how good or bad it is - yes, I use mostly Linux and quite a bit of Windows and both of those together do everything that I need a computer to do.

But Macs will always be a minority product compared to PCs running Windows, as I suspect Linux will probably be also. Apple does not have the capability to support a version of OS X on PCs because it does not have the resource to devote to getting OS X to work with countless different types of CPU and hardware on PCs - that's the core reason why there won't be a version of OS X for the PC.

And before any Apple users disagree with me, can I ask how many of you have ever hidden or removed the Apple logo from any Mac that you own? I suspect none of you because displaying the logo is just as important, if not more so, than the usability of the machine and OS X.

Re:Bias for Nerds

[level4]

How you expect anyone to take your "slashdot is biased!" criticism seriously when you have a username like Slash.Poop is beyond me.

You know, we can glean a surprising amount of information from your inane choice of nicknames:

1. It's very recent. You presumably signed up to say just that.
2. You are so obsessed with your hatred of slashdot that you chose the name "slash.poop"
3. You are such a pussy that you can't even bring yourself to swear when you're basically anonymous on the internet. I mean seriously .. "poop"? I'd think an 8 year old was lame if they said that.

The real funny thing is that you're here. Signing up and making comments. How you expect your actions to do anything other than encourage the editors escapes me.

Don't get me wrong, I have my criticisms of Slashdot (not slashDot .. are you a java programmer?). What I don't have, however, is your peculiar conviction that anyone gives a flying fuck what you think. I mean what are you expecting?

CmdrTaco: "Oh no! We've lost Slash.Poop's respect. I cannot go on. Hand me my gun"
kdawson: "Shoot me first! Fuck the world!"

etc, etc.

Re:i'm no MS fan, but...

[Bryansix]

The MAC/PC ones I laughed at in embarrassment for Apple because none of the comparisons made sense. My XP desktop never freezes and doesn't have viruses but when I used an iMAC I got the pinwheel of Death all the damn time!

Re:i'm no MS fan, but...

[flitty]

but if I can sell you on the concept of a brand then you will buy almost anything, regardless of quality and especially in the short run, that is associated with that brand.

SEE: Apple