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Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

Dave C — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:35:38 -0000

The Office Suite for the Mac has been available for quite sometime. With Office 2008 for the Mac recently becoming available I'm not at all surprised that they chose a Mac for the advertisement. It's a great way to raise awareness among Mac owning students that Office is an option.

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

typicalmacuser — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:28:08 -0000

Cool , I love learning things.

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

typicalmacuser — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:27:47 -0000

You guys are so much smarter than me, but like I said it was early AM. Thanks for commenting.

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

typicalmacuser — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:27:19 -0000

Good catch Rose. You coming to the EXPO man!

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

typicalmacuser — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:27:00 -0000

Thanks Ian I agree now that I see it with my eyes open. It's still a Mac and I still laughed.

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

typicalmacuser — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:26:19 -0000

Good catch it was 4AM when I posted this </end of excuse>

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

Daryl Auclair — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:57:47 -0000

HAHAHAHAHAH!!! I love my mac!

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

Joel Esler — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:00:20 -0000

That's not a vmware icon victor, that's the Office Logo.

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

David — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:24:40 -0000

Mac is where it's at. From the VMware event......

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

ianonmac — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:47:22 -0000

Looks like Goatman is right about it being a Powerbook and right about it being photoshopped because I doubt virtualisation software runs well enough, if at all, on the old Powerbook.

It's still funny to see this. What does it say about Microsoft? Doing it cheap (or lazy) by using Stock photography, and of course it implies the hardware for the Windows system is not good enough!

I had a quick look round, didn't find the one they used but found these two, neither are a Mac, yet that is what Microsoft chose. Clearly there is a preference at Microsoft for Mac!

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/busines...

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/concept...

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

Goatman — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:30:09 -0000

that's just some stock photograph they bought, it's an old PowerBook, notice the lack of iSight camera in the bezel (there's the latch for the screen instead).

My guess is it looks like the screen was just photoshopped onto the the computer.

Most likely it's just a picture the add company they hired to do the work bought for use in the ad.

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

Mike Rose — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:24:12 -0000

It's a PowerBook G4, which makes it even funnier.

Re: Even Microsoft is a Mac

Adam — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:38:51 -0000

They've been using Titanium G4's in their ads for years - good to see they stopped just pasting a Windows screenshot on top.