Comments on: Microsoft’s New Ad: Tell Me Something I Don’t Already Know

By: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 Ads: Not Much To Offer, So Confuse ‘Em » Webomatica - Entertainment and Tech Digest

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:49:20 +0000

[...] hearing someone vomited, I checked out some of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 ads. While the cheap PC ads do have a point, these IE 8 ads make the Seinfeld ones look really good. Which is [...]

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:29:52 +0000

I think all labtops will come down in price very soon.

By: Kenneth Schneider Apogee

Kenneth Schneider Apogee — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:05:22 +0000

This is really cool. Thank you for sharing this article.

By: Numbers

Numbers — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:50:12 +0000

Everything has to do with brand. Apple has perfected its ability to promote its products, whereas microsoft has not.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:45:20 +0000

…and there's also some research going into the quality of the PC “Lauren”
purchased. Doesn't look too good.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/microsoft_apple_...

By: jcieplinski

jcieplinski — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:00:05 +0000

My problem is that the premise is completely contrived. What computer buyer's only two criteria are 1) spend less than $1,000, and 2) get a 17" screen? Right. No one.

17" laptop users are mainly graphics pros and hi-end nerds like me. This girl just wants a computer for writing Word docs. Is she willing to cart around an 8 lb. monster laptop just to get the larger screen? And a larger screen that is only 1440 x 900, no less?

In the real world, people like her want the smallest laptop possible. If MS wanted to really make this ad effective, they would have had her try to buy a Macbook Air. The problem is, small PC laptops are either just as expensive as the Air, or they are netbooks running Linux. So they can't make that argument.