Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

At 09:06 03/12/2008, you wrote:
>On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 at 10:53:30PM +0000, trotter wrote:
> > At 22:44 02/12/2008, you wrote:
> > >On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Dr Adam Trickett wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone been annoyed by the silly Microsoft advert where
> clueless people
> > > > claim that they are a PC?
> > > >
> > >Amazing coincidence but it's been driving me potty too, it came on at the
> > >weekend and I leapt from my chair proclaiming "I'm not a PC, I'm
> a free man",
> > >my wife did give me an odd look but then said how much it's been
> annoying her
> > >too. It's just an attempt to reinforce the idea that PC means
> Windows, it's
> > >rather pathetic & scraping the bottom of the barrel if that's
> the best they
> > >can come up with.
> >
> >
> > I hate the mac advert rip off as well.
> > The idea is there but surely its just too long ago when the mac ads were
> > running for it to be a riposte?
>
>I suppose a one of response would have been okay as you suggest.
>Novell managed that pretty quickly.
>
> > But i guess in true Microsoft fashion it takes them ages to get
> > anything done :)
>
>Indeed, and even then it's an MS Annoying Advert 2.0 as the
>original 1.0 advert with BillG was even worse...
>
> > BTW the ad was made on an apple mac!
> > If you stop it the ad theres some give away sign in it.
> > Can you say Own goal?
>
>That is interesting. How do you know?


It was in a couple of PC mags ie windows mags.
I think it was in the guardians "online" computing section as well.

Martin N