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Can you imagine how funny an anti-Microsoft ad campaign along the same lines would be? Microsoft is trying to start a gunfight and it's armed with a nerf axe.

Can you imagine how funny an anti-Microsoft ad campaign along the same lines would be? Microsoft is trying to start a gunfight and it's armed with a nerf axe. As a cynical admirer of Google I don't care for the way advertising drives everything it does, but I cannot remember the last time I noticed an ad in gmail (Twitter, for example, manages to be far worse while still appearing not to have a business model.) Meanwhile, Microsoft, the original f. you, f. everybody, software company is shipping an OS with advertising and junkware baked into it. Who else is doing that? Are you sure this is where you want to go today Microsoft? Yes. No. Abort. Retry. Cancel. OK.

andyking 14y ago
Meanwhile, Microsoft, the original f. you, f. everybody aoftware company is shipping an OS with advertising and junkware baked into it. Who else is doing that? Canonical.
- Tloewald 14y ago
  Haha. Well luckily they're not running these ads. I note in another post in this thread that it appears MS is doing exactly what gmail does AS WELL so as usual MS wins the chutzpah award on top of everything else.
freehunter 14y ago
Where is the advertising and junkware built into Windows?
- Tloewald 14y ago
  There are apps built into windows 8 that display ads. http://www.zdnet.com/how-outraged-should-you-be-about-ads-in-windows-8-apps-not-at-all-7000007223/ http://www.zdnet.com/how-outraged-should-you-be-about-ads-in... Link to an article explaining how they aren't really part of windows 8 but merely an "experiment". Fact is, install windows 8 and some of your apps will show ads (and when we saw them we had no idea that these apps were part of some "experiment" and not really windows 8).
  - freehunter 14y ago
    Ah, so some apps that replace the Internet shortcuts that used to be installed with Windows have ads, just like the websites they're replacing. MSN showed a hell of a lot of ads, too. Honestly, with a million little papercuts people are hell-bent on hating everything that comes from Microsoft. If you manufacture your outrage just right, it almost sounds legitimate.

andyking 14y ago

Meanwhile, Microsoft, the original f. you, f. everybody aoftware company is shipping an OS with advertising and junkware baked into it. Who else is doing that? Canonical.

Tloewald 14y ago
Haha. Well luckily they're not running these ads. I note in another post in this thread that it appears MS is doing exactly what gmail does AS WELL so as usual MS wins the chutzpah award on top of everything else.

freehunter 14y ago

Where is the advertising and junkware built into Windows?

Tloewald 14y ago
There are apps built into windows 8 that display ads. http://www.zdnet.com/how-outraged-should-you-be-about-ads-in-windows-8-apps-not-at-all-7000007223/ http://www.zdnet.com/how-outraged-should-you-be-about-ads-in... Link to an article explaining how they aren't really part of windows 8 but merely an "experiment". Fact is, install windows 8 and some of your apps will show ads (and when we saw them we had no idea that these apps were part of some "experiment" and not really windows 8).
- freehunter 14y ago
  Ah, so some apps that replace the Internet shortcuts that used to be installed with Windows have ads, just like the websites they're replacing. MSN showed a hell of a lot of ads, too. Honestly, with a million little papercuts people are hell-bent on hating everything that comes from Microsoft. If you manufacture your outrage just right, it almost sounds legitimate.