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A Decade of Dreadful Microsoft Ads
Barence writes "PC Pro has rounded up the most howlingly awful examples of ads churned out by Microsoft over the past decade. The selection includes the cringe-worthy Gates & Seinfeld ads — where Gates looks like he’s delivering his lines with the help of a cattle prod — to the terrible Windows 7 party ads (an 'F1 key for social inadequates,' according to PC Pro), to the one that got away: an excellent in-house training video produced by The Office's Ricky Gervais."
Apple will really make market share when they don't overcharge for their hardware. I don't care that it is spec'd for their OS. The same spec in a PC is substantially cheaper in most cases. When Apple gets more market share and the virus writers start targeting their OS like they do Windows they will see that there not as secure as they thought. Windows still has some work in the security department obviously but it is improving. What it really comes down to with people is cost. When a person walks into Best Buy and can get a pretty powerful PC for less then the entry level Apple they will go that route. Money versus performance. If Apple competitively priced their systems against a PC the market share would shift alot quicker. The next decade will decide if Microsoft endures or falls even further or if Linux and/or Apple take over. I would put money on Microsoft that they will still hold the market share based alone on the server OS. I work in software that is supported (business application) that runs on various platforms. One platform that we don't support is Apple. Why? Not in demand for communications software for major business. Mostly windows, then Linux/Unix and then AS/400.