CNET News Daily Podcast: Microsoft makes ad push with Gates, Seinfeld
The first ad for Microsoft featuring new spokesman Jerry Seinfeld appeared last night, and already it's causing a stir. CNET News reporter Ina Fried speaks with a Microsoft Windows consumer marketing specialist about what the software maker hopes to achieve with its latest campaign.
Speaking of campaigns, CNET's Declan McCullagh checks in from the St. Paul, Minn., where he was covering the Republican National Convention.
Also on today's podcast, Dell says it will sell its factories to increase its profit margins, Michael Moore says his next film will skip theaters and head directly to the Internet, and a few things we'd like to see added to Google's Chrome browser.
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McCain talks up oil drilling, green energy
Dell planning to ditch factories
Samsung contemplating SanDisk acquisition
Michael Moore plans Net-only premiere
Erica Ogg is a CNET News reporter who covers Apple, HP, Dell, and other PC makers, as well as the consumer electronics industry. She's also one of the hosts of CNET News' Daily Podcast. In her non-work life, she's a history geek, a loyal Dodgers fan, and a mac-and-cheese connoisseur. E-mail Erica.
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Erica Ogg keeps up on the latest consumer electronics and PC goings-on as chief correspondent for CNET News' Crave blog.
Jennifer Guevin is assistant managing editor for CNET News and focuses on science and green tech.
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by Fil0403
September 12, 2008 8:47 AM PDT
- It's about time someone tells the Windows story right, as opposed to let others (read Microsoft's bitter competitors) tell that story as they see fit (ironically enough, and in this day and age, that someone has to be Microsoft, since the tech media nowadays seems to be more interested in spreading FUD against Vista than in actually telling the truth): i.e. (and as Microsoft Windows consumer marketing specialist correctky says) living your life in your own terms with a multitude of choices (i.e. using Windows), as opposed to live a life dictated by someone else's terms, with few or inexistant choices (i.e. using Mac).
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(3 Comments)Bye-bye Mac. It was nice to get to know you a little bit. Apple: follow my advice and stick to the iPods; leave computing to serious OSs.