Microsoft's publicity created using Macs?

bbloke · #1 September 19th, 2008, 07:51 PM

Microsoft have been unceremoniously abandoning their ($300 million) ads with Seinfeld and moving towards spoofs of Apple's ads. A user on Flickr claims to have evidence that photos on Microsoft's site were created with the aid of Macs, and the story is carried on RoughlyDrafted Magazine, including an allegation that Macs were involved in making the ads too. A nice bit of irony for the high profile campaign.

**Giaguara** · #2 September 19th, 2008, 08:27 PM

Reminds of 1983's mr. Microsoft having a Mac in the office and on those ah so 1980's teenmag poses...

bbloke · #3 September 19th, 2008, 09:36 PM

Noooo, I'm blind!

Ahh, do you remember the story about Redmond ordering a number of G5s?

Or when the launch of Windows XP used Macs?

Or when Microsoft produced a report using Word 98 on a Mac?

Maybe none of this is totally shocking, but it does amuse me.

Satcomer · #4 September 19th, 2008, 10:33 PM

This is not surprising to me. EveryOne thinks Microsoft is trying to change but it isn't. Microsoft's action at the VMWorld conference tells me Microsoft is out of control. Them using Macs is just them using an Ad agency and they never bother to properly research it.

Their actions with is ad and at VMWorld and it tells me Microsoft is on the verge of loosing big in their tech dominance and are panicking.

**Giaguara** · #5 September 20th, 2008, 04:29 AM

Satcomer you rule

I heard some rumors of that poker chip incident of theirs at work last week, but never hadn't really seen anything about that officially.

**fryke** · #6 September 20th, 2008, 04:39 AM

I agree with Satcomer that this incident (the ad being made on Macs) is really simply MS using an ad agency - and they (of course) use Macs. About the other stuff: Weird, but I don't agree that MS is totally out of control and panicking (just yet).

bbloke · #7 September 20th, 2008, 05:02 AM

Sure, I too suspect that the publicity involved Macs simply due to usage of an ad agency (which is one reason why I said none of this would be shocking, really). Then again, it does sound like Macs are actually used by Microsoft as well (probably wider than just the Mac BU). Just amusing, that's all.

As for Microsoft's behavior at the VMWorld conference... that's really quite poor. It smacks of Microsoft being very childish. To be honest, to have a corporation as large as this behave in such a way does send a message to me that they are feeling threatened. It does not come across as the actions of a company that feels safe and in control.

Satcomer · #8 September 21st, 2008, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by fryke

About the other stuff: Weird, but I don't agree that MS is totally out of control and panicking (just yet).

In my world I have direct contact with Microsoft, Apple & RedHat reps all the time. My biggest surprise is when the powers to be SHOCKED everyone when they came out of the blue and asked me (in Front of the Microsoft rep) about using Linux servers instead of the long Microsoft contract that is coming to the end. I never saw such a shock on the Microsoft reps face before. According to our Dell rep Microsoft is loosing so many long standing in big organizations (because of server licensing fees)it is not funny.

So Microsoft in my eyes are on the verge of loosing their bread and butter in server licensing fees (to Linux and surprising Apple servers) these days they are on the verge of some big losses. They have to be panicking.