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It cant get any better than this: Microsoft's "I'm a PC" Ads - made on a Mac!!!!! LOL

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Hilarious...

 

Who would want to make video production on vista anyway? Vista can barely

pick up its own boated arse! lol

 

Go to this link to see the article with the priceless screenshots! LOL

 

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/09/19/microsofts-im-a-pc-ads-created-on-macs/

 

 

Daniel Eran Dilger

After dumping its $10 million contract with Jerry Seinfeld after just three

ads (only two of which even aired) Microsoft has created new ad copy where

regular people and a few celebrities say, "I'm a PC!" One problem with the

campaign's credibility: the ad work was created using Macs.

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Flickr user LuisDS found that metadata on the creative copy of the

"stereotyped PC user" and other photos appearing on Microsoft's "I'm a PC"

website revealed that they were produced using Macs running Adobe Creative

Suite 3. One might expect that Microsoft would use Windows PCs running its

own Microsoft Expression Studio software, which as the company advertises,

"takes your creative possibilities to a new level."

 

Apparently, neither Windows PCs nor Expression Studio are up to the task of

taking on Apple and destroying its globe enshrouding "Get a Mac" campaign.

The image of John Hodgman as a troubled PC struggling with Vista-related

problems has pushed Microsoft to defend itself with a $300 million campaign

to take control of the "conversation about Windows," using Macs as needed to

get the message produced.

 

When LuisDS checked on the photos again this morning after publishing the

metadata details on Flickr last night, he found that Microsoft has scrubbed

the revealing details from the work, an effort that also resulted in the 272

KB photo ballooning to 852 KB.

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