Microsoft Commercials...

[pasithea]

Tired, so I'm watching a little TV and being bombarded by advertisements. Always likely to put me in a mood.

Anyhow. I'm really being struck by the Microsoft "I'm a PC" advertisements.

Let me see if I understand the premise... So... Microsoft finds some inbred rube and says, "We'll buy you a computer if you jabber inanely for a few minutes on camera"

... And somehow, bribing someone with a free computer equates to their OS not being a flaming pile of dog shit?

... I'm kinda confused. I mean... If you have to bribe someone to do your advertising, it seems like your product is full of fail.

But perhaps I'm merely basing my opinion on having used Windows. C'mon Microsoft, give me two grand to buy a computer. I'll get something way better than a stinking piece of crap Dell Boat Anchor and it won't even be a single-purpose machine. I'll be able to use it for just about anything.

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[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Also, now that I find myself in a platform argument that I never wanted to have in the first place I think I'll just go off the deep end and mention that Steve Jobs buys kidneys intended for orphans to prolong his brand/lifestyle pushing cachet, whereas Bill Gates is the head of the largest charitable organization in the history of the world.

Please take this as a signal that I would rather this become absurd name calling than go on. I think DV girl doesn't give Windows PCs a fair shake because she isn't used to the interface and is already indoctrinated to the Apple cult, but I haven't got the inclination or technical expertise to dash any and all of her complaints, nor the bankroll to experience a modern mac so I might try to see things from her own point of view.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I think DV girl doesn't give Windows PCs a fair shake because she isn't used to the interface and is already indoctrinated to the Apple cult

Um, actually, she used Windows boxes for years. Switching to Macs was a "HOLY SHIT COMPUTERS ACTUALLY WORK NOW" kind of thing for her. If you dig back in her LJ a few years I think you'll find her first posts along the lines of "OH MY GOD IT JUST FUCKING WORKS THIS IS SO AWESOME".

I think she'd just recently switched when I moved in with her so she's only been using 'em since... 2005 I think? rather than being a freak of nature like me who went from the mind-shattering awesome coolness of the Amiga to the Mac and never had to deal with a MS-DOS/Windows box.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

This is true. I have the kind of hate for Windows that only comes from a scornful ex.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. The richest man in the world can hire tax consultants to tell him that 'charitable donations' will let him keep the greatest portion of his wealth and push more of his tax burden onto people like me. How noble. Maybe next, he'll take on the mantle or eradicating a disease that's already in severe decline so that he can have a place in history as a great healer or something. ... Oh wait...


Bill Gates is the master of Oxyclean. In a better world, he's selling ShamWow and various plastic kitchen implements. He's a flimflam man. He's never been good at anything other than scamming people.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Malaria was already on the decline anyway, DV? Malaria? The most common infectious disease on Earth? And what about Warren Buffet willing his estate to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation? He do that for tax purposes, so he wouldn't have to pay annual taxes... when he is dead?