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  • Excellent, thoughtful creative

    The new MSFT ads are a welcome approach because they are uplifting and positive. They also underscore the pervasiveness of Windows in every-one's life. Most importantly, they represent a contrast to the cynicism and misanthropy found in everyday discourse, some of which is evident in the comments responding this this article.
    Posted to Technology by dgrisman on September 30, 2008

  • Other than tweaking Apple, not memorable

    Aside from the John Hodgman lookalike at the beginning, these ads remind me not so much of Apple's ads, but rather an earlier Microsoft ad campaign from several years ago, also very P.C., showing ordinary middle-class people from all over Europe and North America (and maybe South America, too) getting up in the morning, bathing, eating breakfast, ...
    Posted to Technology by Mr. Serious on September 29, 2008

  • MS ads show they are still not getting it

    Just my opinion, but I think MS still doesn't get it. Their new commercials are better than the awful Seinfeld ones but I think they're still missing the obvious point: Apple is selling *features* with their snootiness while MS is just responding to the snootiness. MS needs to pimp their features. Here's a (bad) example: guy sitting at ...
    Posted to Technology by TrickyBuddha on September 29, 2008

  • Okay, so we're unimpressed with Cuil

    Let's move on: What queries expose the differences between other search engines? What's the Vonnegut Test for understanding the difference between, say, Google, Live, Yahoo, Ask, and Wikia Search?
    Posted to Webhead by cwilson on July 29, 2008

  • Thanks for the review, Microsoft

    Nice to see that Slate retains some residual loyalty to its former proprietor, the manufacturers of XBox. Thus the PS3 is a ''$400 disappointment'' that is ''languishing behind'' Microsoft's green box. Well, providing you're selective about which markets you're talking about. The PS3 outsells XBox in both Europe and Japan. As for MGS4, it's a ...
    Posted to Gaming by GreenwichJ on June 24, 2008

  • Some decent advice, but outdated analysis

    Interesting that this four-year old advice is still mostly valid to me, but the detailed steps are actually outdated due to the default security options in modern operating systems: 1. I find it hard to believe that in 2004 (when the article was originally published) most users did not have Windows XP which comes with a firewall. Anyone who ...
    Posted to Webhead by BlackHelicopter on June 21, 2008

  • Both Rich AND Smart -- Now, THAT is RARE

    I have been fulminating for years now about Harvard, and was happy to learn about Michael Kinsley's long ago household affiliation there. I was never headed for Harvard, but years later, learned that a high school classmate of mine, female from Homewood Floosmoor Community High School -- served Harvard as a Deputy Admissions Director for ...
    Posted to Readme by MichaelBernard1 on June 19, 2008

  • Bribery? or spreading the wealth

    When you search the web for products and/or services, vendors pay Google when you click on them, but Google doesn't pay you. The Microsoft cashback system offers consumers money back for the value of their search, and gives vendors a clear connection between the search result and an actual purchase. What is wrong with that. It's like finally ...
    Posted to Moneybox by memphisblue1 on June 10, 2008

  • Hardly a fatal flaw

    A few bugs is hardly a fatal flaw. There's no real story here. What Microsoft are doing is what Google, Youtube, Facebook and all the other web2.0 companies should have been doing from the start - their users make them alot of money. Why shouldn't the users then share in those massive profits. This is a revolutionary move from Microsoft that ...
    Posted to Moneybox by e_double on May 22, 2008

  • Bad ("worst") histor Repeating: Microsoft Can Afford to Wait

    hmmmmm...... that Time Warner reminder about AOL is a wake-up call of potential bad history repeating given the talk in the media of 'talks' continuing with TW over the last few weeks even while MS was as yet in pursuit.
    Posted to Moneybox by tomoser on May 6, 2008
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