AppleInsider is reporting that Microsoft is now placing a recording booth of its massive “I’m A PC” advertising campaign outside an Apple Store in Birmingham, England. Its source also notes that a trio of staff from Microsoft will be turning people away from the Mac for the next three days. This is part of a wider campaign to clean up its image after being tarnished at the hands of Apple’s […]
A new “Get a Mac” ad has been released that sees PC raising some money to fix Vista via a bake sale, after their marketing team decided to run an “expensive ad campaign instead of fixing Vista”. Mac then offers to help out by buying a cupcake from Vista … a $10 billion cupcake. This ad is basically a direct attack at Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” ads. To me, the […]
After three ads, Microsoft has ditched its commercials that featured Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, but will refocus its efforts to ‘redefine’ the popular “I’m a PC” line on the current Apple ads for their Mac computers. According to the New York Times, one of the commercials will begin with a company engineer who resembles John Hodgman, the famous comedian who portrays that PC character in the Apple ads. The […]