Windows 7 commercial strikes an odd note
MONTREAL--Just as I was wrapping things up for the evening at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention here, I happened to catch Microsoft's new Windows 7 commercial.
Bringing back the ever-so-cute Kylie from Microsoft's earlier Windows ad was a good choice, but evidently the musical choice could prove to be unfortunate.
As Europe's "The Final Countdown" played, I was nonplussed, but a fellow convention-goer immediately started laughing.
Apparently, that same song is used on Fox's "Arrested Development" just before the character Gob is about to see his magic trick go awry.
"Unless that's ironic, the choice of music is hilarious," said Trey Graham, editor of the NPR culture blog Monkey See and an self-identified Mac geek.
Music aside, Microsoft has a lot more than Vista's "wow" to tout, using various positive reviews (including comments from CNET) and touting the product's October 22 launch.
During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina. 
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I think its incredibly unfortunate that Windows 7 is the NSA's most comprehensive Spyware Platform to date..
Thats why Russia, France, China, Cuba and most other Countries are moving to Open Source for Security!
Thats why Microsoft needs to scare you off of XP
Thats why Outgoing Data is not blocked by default in the firewall
Thats why antiviruses like AVG were rewritten to prevent you from blocking Internet access by programs on your computer like Firefox for example!
(You no longer get popups from your firewall asking if you want firefox and other programs to connect to the Internet - they just connect without your OK)
Thats why encryption programs rewritten for Vista and Windows 7 give you no indication of trouble yet trusted encryption programs give you warning that the contents of RAM are being copied to your hard drive ONLY after you open an encrypted disk and thereby compromising your encryption key which was located in RAM.
Thats why Windows 7 runs to the Internet to find a solution to the problem listed above after rebooting from a bluescreen! To aquire your encryption keys!
Download Drivecrypt 4.0 from 2cows if you doubt me and test it yourself. DC-4.0 Installs correctly without errors, creates an encrypted volume without errors and only Bluescreens AFTER your encryption key is in RAM and can be copied to your hard drive to be transferred accross the Internet the next time you have Net access!
Thats why Windows 7 can send your wireless network encryption key accross the Internet as well as your disk encryption keys stated above.
By transferring your wireless encryption key without your knowledge, local authorities can access your wireless network and access your encrypted data even after you disconnect from the Internet
Thats why wireless networking hardware will soon be built into future netbooks and notebooks to prevent removal
Thats why nobody is even covering these problems in the press but instead are removing my posts from over 50% of other sites on the Internet
If they doubt me, they should at least investigate these problems, don't you think?
If your answer is no, then THAT would seem very unfortunate for the readers on this site!
McD
Nope, still snappy.
Next time you try to bash something, make sure you actually know what you're talking about.
I'm not ditching my Macbook anytime soon, but I'm not getting rid of my Windows desktop either.
I'm so glad there are more positive things in life to enjoy like this cute commercial with Kylie.
Do you think that fully formatting a 2GB thumbdrive on Windows 7 in 8 minutes and 12 seconds is snappy, you should try to fully format the exact same thumbdrive on XP!
XP will fully format the same Thumbdrive in 6 seconds! Now thats snappy!
And I laughed when the music came on too.. but I don't remember the song being on Arrested Development.
As in epically hilarious in its cheesiness?
(...maybe they're going to Planet Microsoft? :) ).
Windows own 90% of computers, and they are on life support? Wow apple has maybe 8%, they are clinically dead by your way of thinking. Why must apple fanatics turn anything i mean anything into a " we" are better, M$ sucks,Windoze bash...... dont you guys & Girlz get sick of the same cliches? You guys need to get used to the fact that win 7 has gotten rave reviews across the board....Even the site you are visiting today gave it a great write up.
By the way good story.......The commercial is very good, enjoyed it....And windows 7 is a hell of a good os. I will install on all 3 of our machines.
Now For your reading pleasure
http://www.pcworld.com/article/170789/why_macs_cant_beat_pcs_with_windows_7.html
what are the reasons FOR wanting a mac again? apart from "it's shiney" ?
and OSX is WELL due a makeover by now...it looks so dated it's laughable. while windows has evolved TWICE since osx, apple have just sightly reskinned the interface and buindeled some extra programs with it and somehow STILL managed to break lots of app compatibility.
Seriously? You'd get less pro-Microsoft partisanship from Rob Enderle than from this guy. I love how he opens with the spiel about how he has a Mac and how he loves it, etc. etc... then piles on strawmen based on assertion, not logic or fact. Let's hammer 'em out, shall we?
* "Clean and Simple User Experience." - sure... Windows 7 is going to be so drop-easy for XP die-hards to navigate, what with the completely re-arranged Control panel, taskbar behavior, ribbons, and etc... right? The truth is, Windows 7 and OSX will have the same approximate learning curve.
* "Mac Crashes More." - but no proof, just assertion. Anyone can do that... let's see evidence (which is mysteriously and completely absent).
* "Flexibility and Lower Cost." Dunno how to tell him this, but Snow Leopard costs $129 or so brand new and full retail. How much is Windows 7 Ultimate going to run again? Oh, wait - he's conflating hardware costs (but conveniently leaves out the competing specifications - how nice). His defensive closing sentence in that paragraph is especially cute...
* "Performance" (followed immediately by): "We may not have side-by-side Windows 7 and Mac OS X performance comparisons yet..." So what does he base his conclusion on? Oh, that you can run Windows 7 on high-end Nehalem gear (though doing so pretty much destroys his own "Lower Cost" argument way out of the water).
* "Mac Security Is NOT Better Than Windows 7." We actually don't know that until there's some actual adoption of Windows 7, now do we? He could have at least used some sort of technical argument, but utterly fails to - relying instead on bald assertion and the ever-present patch-count myth (well, duh - Windows 7 has only had a handful of those so far).
Sorry "patchman10", but you're going to have to try harder than this. I mean, at least the utter Mac Partisan Daniel Eran Dilger on roughlydrafted.com (and on appleinsider.com) uses logic and fact to back up his assertions... your boy can't even arse himself to do that.
@Random_Walk: Just listen to Miller's latest statement regarding the security of 7 and endangered os--snow leopard. Google or Bing it
And do we need a news flash everytime you have a "me-too writes about microsoft" syndrome???
Please write something worth the time your readers spend on your blog.
Fascinating. I wonder if you'll check back for replies to your comment to justify it.
Guess what.. you are right..
I am checking back for replies on my comment. ;-)
but I wish.. in your reply, you have any thing else informative to say.
I have a faint doubt... Are you Ina Fried .. :D
Did this make we want to buy Windows 7? No. Now I'll probably get Windows 7 anyway (if enough of my clients have it, then it'll make sense) but this did nothing to move that decision on. For the ad agency this is an EPIC FAIL, they took positive buzz around a product and made it look foolish, all on their own.
You can't polish a turd.
It is about 10 years past the time MS needed to start from scratch, they haven't done that but instead bolted on lots of half-baked me-too features.
Try Windows 7 before you bash it. Don't forget that UNIX, the underpinnings of Mac OS X, has been around since the 1970s. There are some cases where maturity of code does help. Both Mac OS X and Windows 7 have benefited from code maturity. The difference is that the Windows code base is just starting to reach maturity now.
Just like 7, it is still insanely bloated.
Bloated? one word.....Itunes. I deleted that quick after five minutes of seeing what it did to MY music files lol.
And keep paying for mandatory patches MAC. lol. ill get mine for free.
Your all on the bandwagon now, lets see how long you stay blindly riding.
I've run Vista Ultimate, and it is truly a slow operating system. I've never enjoyed using it, even after installing all of the updates. Windows 7 is much faster.
Also, OS X 10.6 is as much of an upgrade over 10.5 as Windows 7 is over Vista. It is more than a service pack. If you took the time to not act like a fanboy yourself, you would be amazed what you would find out.
Welcome to modernity.
Things have progressed in terms of capabilities and performance, but until you can run Native Code on the machine in a safe manner, and data can be securly stored in the cloud (and I don't mean encrypted), there is no chance in hell the browser will replace the OS Shell.
And less time I checked, a browser still needs a kernel and devices drivers...sounds a lot like an OS.
W7 is seriously good; ironically, the only program I have trouble with (despite using a notoriously unstable CAD software) is Itunes! Mac's are good, and now; Pcs are good too! Ultimately it just comes down to personal choice, and all this fanboi stuff makes people look daft; its like arguing whether a Volkswagen is better than a Ford.
by the way, my wife has Vista and it has been running great since last year. No issues at all! She only play online games, surf net, and music. I locked out ADMIN account and created 1 regular account for her.
Also, as a side note, it is not, nor has it ever been, "MAC." It is "Mac." MAC is "Media Access Control."
- by JosePolanco September 11, 2009 7:15 AM PDT
- ... lo que pasa es que los iFans estan celoso porque no hubo nada interesante en el evento 6/6/6. Y sin embargo vienen muchas cosas interesantes para el ecosistema Windows (ZuneHD, Windows 7, nuevas laptops, desktops, nettops, netbooks, WinMo6.5 cellphones, etc....)
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- by Static-X-Machina September 18, 2009 10:37 AM PDT
- Uh.....huh? This site is based in english and 99.999% of people here are using the english. Please try to use english as well. We Americans tend to get pissed off at people typing gibberish to most.
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