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Microsoft's Lame New Anti-Apple Ad: Macs Are For Kids
businessinsider.com - 4/10/2009
Microsoft's Lame New Anti-Apple Ad: Macs Are For Kids
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Microsoft's (MSFT) latest anti-Apple (AAPL) ad has us scratching our heads: Since when has anyone thought Macs were kiddie computers? Continuing the company's "Laptop Hunters" ad series, once again we're introduced to budget-conscious shoppers looking to buy a new computer and checking out ...
Microsoft's latest ad attacks Mac aesthetics, computing power
appleinsider.com - 4/5/2009
Microsoft's latest ad attacks Mac aesthetics, computing power
— appleinsider.com — Continuing its advertising campaign which seeks to promote generic PCs running Windows as more attractive than Macs,... Microsoft's latest spot plays up specifications over aesthetics as opposed to just suggesting that PCs are simply cheaper as the ... (more) Microsoft's latest ad attacks Mac aesthetics, computing ...

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Is the Apple press falling into Microsoft’s trap?
apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 4/5/2009
Is the Apple press falling into Microsoft’s trap?
— apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com — Giampaolo in car Over the weekend, Microsoft ( MSFT ) unleashed the second TV ad in its... “you find it, you keep it” series — this time swapping handsome, “technically savvy” Giampaolo for perky, red-headed Lauren De Long . Once again the camera follows ... (more) Is the Apple press falling into Microsoft’s trap?

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Microsoft's Lauren: She Bought The Fourth-Best Computer
businessweek.com - 4/5/2009
Microsoft's Lauren: She Bought The Fourth-Best Computer
— businessweek.com — So the blogosphere has been all over this Microsoft add where a perky redhead named Lauren buy... “just what I wanted” – or rather an HP notebook running Windows. Her assignment, for the add is to get a notebook with a 17-inch screen for less than ... (more) Microsoft's Lauren: She Bought The Fourth-Best Computer

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Macsimum News — ... “Microsoft’s Lame New Anti-Apple Ad: Macs Are For Kids: Microsoft’s (MSFT) latest anti-Apple (AAPL) ad has us scratching our heads: Since when has anyone thought Macs were kiddie computers?”— Silicon Alley Insider “Mac are expensive if you shop like a moron: I’m starting to suspect that the doofus-filled commercials are designed to confuse and confound Macintards into frothing wildly like Neil Cavuto on Fox News.”— ...

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