Wow. There’s been a lot of great stuff in the news lately: Apple SDK, IE 8 beta, AOL/Bebo deal, Safari update.
I’ve been out of pocket lately due to an illness, and the subsequent backlog of things to catch up on, but hope to get the blogging back on track.
So where to start this fine Friday?
Well, today, I was caught by Apple’s second banner ad blitzkrieg against Vista! You may remember one of the first attacks on Vista last November. Typically, I don’t like big, interactive ads, but I do like these. It’s gotta be because they combine the TV ads with the online ones: familiarity, good theme, funny.
They are showing up on the WSJ Online (wsj.com), CNET (news.com), and NY Times (nytimes.com); however, they may be elsewhere.
The gist is that the Mac and PC guys are musing over the banner ad, which reads (with hunted down references):
Vista…one of the biggest blunders in technology. — CNET.com
So the PC guy, hits the banner refresh switch to discover:
It’s time for a Vista do-over… — PC Magazine
…emergency banner refresh switch…
Mac OS X Leopard: A perfect 10 — InfoWorld
…give up.
Surely, this will continue to irk Microsoft. However, I agree with Adrian from ZDNET, about what is hurting Microsoft most: Microsoft. I blogged about the horrors of the Vista upgrade process for consumers in January 2007. Not much better since.
It just wasn’t ready for consumer use IMHO, not even close. So now they continue to pay the price. Eventually, it will fade, but Apple doesn’t appear to be letting them forget about it any time soon, or consumers.
