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New Apple ads savage Microsoft's $300m Windows campaign

The first, "Bean Counter," is the most direct and tackles Microsoft's well-publicized $300 million marketing campaign for Windows, which already includes $10 million just for a set of ads featuring Jerry Seinfeld as well as the company's usual online, print and TV efforts. Long's persona suggests that PC -- and thus Microsoft -- is putting far more money into marketing Windows than into fixing it, creating a smokescreen to mask the problems with its latest operating system.

Microsoft announcement tomorrow: No more Seinfeld ads!

Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign - a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether. Microsoft's version of the story: Redmond had always planned to drop Seinfeld.

'Eternal Sunshine' director said to be behind Microsoft Seinfeld commercial

If as one expert said Seinfeld is the perfect pitchman to showcase Vista as the operating system of the 1990's, the director of Eternal Sunshine, a story about breakups in which the protagonist has his memory erased to forget the pain of his ex-girlfriend, may be the perfect compliment to this whole effort. The campaign is already a joke, can't wait to see the rest of it.

Motley Fool Writes Off Microsoft

You don't need to watch the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' commercials to see that Microsoft is taking a beating. You see it in the company's financials where its online unit, incredibly, is operating at a loss; overheating Xbox 360 consoles find the company taking a huge warranty hit for a system losing market share to the Wii; and the upgrade wave of its flagship operating system has been more of a ripple than a tsunami. That last point is important. This was supposed to be Microsoft's final feast, the

Top ten terrible tech products - Crave at CNET.co.uk

Vista voted worst invention by CNET.

Software Notebook: Suit still pending over Vista marketing from last year

he suit, filed in March, alleges that the "Windows Vista Capable" slogan was wrongly used to market machines unable to run the new operating system's most highly touted features.

Apple says Don't Upgrade to Vista ... Yet

Apple said iTunes may work with many Vista computers, but the company knows of some compatibility problems and recommends that users wait until it resolves the issues with an iTunes update in the next few weeks, the company said in a statement provided Friday by spokesman Derick Mains. The iTunes software is key to synching music on computers...

A Mac user switches to Vista - Then Switches Back

But I really miss that peaceful, Zen-like quiet I felt with my Mac when I d wake it up or put it instantly to sleep. For me, it just works right, without really having to think about it. So I decided to switch again. From Vista, back to the Mac to the brand new, white MacBook on which I told this story.

Gates Bolts At End of Daily Show Set

People in line for the taping of Monday night's show speculated about what might happen -- wondering if Stewart might bring out "Daily Show" resident expert John Hodgman to reprise his role as the hard-luck Windows PC in Apple's ads.

E-mail from the grave? Microsoft seeks patent on 'immortal computing'

I would focus on shipping Vista, but that's just me: "The project, dubbed "immortal computing," would let people store digital information in physical artifacts and other forms to be preserved and revealed to future generations, and maybe even to future civilizations."

Window's Vista: Hey, where's the buzz?

Meanwhile, technology analysts wonder whether Microsoft's dominance is nearing an end, since programs coming over the Internet are emerging as a more powerful force in computing than software tied to individual desktops.

Flaws Are Detected in Microsoft’s Vista

Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month.

Vista Wins on Looks. As for Lacks ...

If the description so far makes Vista sound a lot like the Macintosh, well, you re right. You get the feeling that Microsoft s managers put Mac OS X on an easel and told the programmers, Copy that.

Microsoft Software Updates Go on Sale to Businesses

From the what drugs are the Gartner Group researchers on category...They are predicting a decline in personal computer operating system share for Mac and Linux for 2007 and beyond. People pay them for this data ... I guess Microsoft pays them for this data. Notice the entirely anemic penetration of Vista in CY 2007 and 2008.

John Dvorak on Vista's Launch

"While there is no way that Vista will be a flop, since all new computers will come with Vista pre-installed, there seems to be no excitement level at all. And there does not seem to be any compelling reason for people to upgrade to Vista."