Archive for the ‘vista’ Category

Microsoft announcement tomorrow: No more Seinfeld ads!

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign - a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether. Microsoft's version ...

‘Eternal Sunshine’ director said to be behind Microsoft Seinfeld commercial

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

If as one expert said Seinfeld is the perfect pitchman to showcase Vista as the operating system of the 1990's, the director of Eternal Sunshine, a story about breakups in which the protagonist has his memory erased to forget the pain of his ex-girlfriend, may be the perfect compliment to ...

Motley Fool Writes Off Microsoft

Friday, January 25th, 2008

You don't need to watch the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' commercials to see that Microsoft is taking a beating. You see it in the company's financials where its online unit, incredibly, is operating at a loss; overheating Xbox 360 consoles find the company taking a huge warranty hit ...

Software Notebook: Suit still pending over Vista marketing from last year

Monday, November 26th, 2007

he suit, filed in March, alleges that the "Windows Vista Capable" slogan was wrongly used to market machines unable to run the new operating system's most highly touted features.Read the full story