Microsoft’s Fails Again

“I get knocked down, but I get up again. You’re never gonna keep me down.” 

What a great song, one that microsoft has apparently taken to heart.  Sadly, they should stay down.  After a miserable attempt at dethroning the iPhone (see “Zune” in the dictionary, or also under “failure,” “worthless,” and “stupid pile of junk that nobody is going to buy,” in your thesaurus) they decided that their saving grace must be Windows;  the operating system we all love to hate.  It has screwed us over for years now, and with every “upgrade” it gets slower and less reliable.  They released Vista as their new OS, rushing it out to try and beat the release of Mac’s new OS Leapord. Apparently they decided to follow Sony’s lead in putting out an inferior product thinking people won’t notice, and thus losing tons and tons of money.

It’s almost like they don’t realize that people are not stupid when it comes to computers anymore.  We understand much more than we did in 1995, so you can’t give us a crappy system and expect us to use it.  Stupid Microsoft.

So, now Apple is leading all laptop sales on college campuses, have the leading mp3 product, the most popular phone in the world, and what is microsoft doing?  Shelving out 300 million dollars in an ad campaign for their already worthless Windows Vista.  Instead of using that money to update Vista to stand up to Leapard, they have decided to turn to Jerry Seinfeld to save them (with a 10 million dollar paycheck, I might add).  I don’t understand their thinking.  They are losing the young people’s business, so they get a comedian that appeals to the baby boomer generation.  Jerry Seinfeld is amazing, don’t get me wrong.  He is one of my top 3 favorite comedians of all time.  But it just doesn’t make sense to try and get college students to want your product using a comedian that their parents love.

It is just like Microsoft to attempt to copy Mac in everything they do, but instead they make a pile of steaming trash.  Apple puts out the iPod, Microsoft tries the Zune and fails.  Apple puts out their extremely popular OSX operating system, Microsoft answers with Vista which is a pile of trash.  Now they are copying Mac’s add campaign, using Seinfeld as a “PC”…. however Bill Gates will also be a PC.  So, apparently college students will buy this because old people and nerdy thieves like it.  Stupid.  I guess the thievery makes sense seeing as Gates stole the idea for Windows in the first place.

Finally, to quote the article on FoxNews.com:

“The new ad effort is expected to use some variation of the slogan “Windows, Not Walls,” according to several people familiar with the matter. Those people say the point is to stress breaking down barriers that prevent people and ideas from connecting.”

Does microsoft really think that they are “breaking down barriers?” No, they do not, but they think the average consumer is that stupid, which should be insulting.  What they are really saying is, “Hey, our product is inferior, and you will hate it and waste a ton of money and space on your pc to have it, but we know you are idiots and will do whatever (fill in celebrity name here) tells you to do; so, we don’t actually have to make a good OS for you, have a nice day.

Posted by kingdaved

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,407702,00.html