July 31, 2008

Even Microsoft is a Mac

Filed under: TMUP-Blog — Victor Cajiao @ 4:24 am

Saw this ad persuading students to buy Microsoft Office. That sure looks like a Mac Book Pro running VMWare Fusion being used. It’s good to see that the folks in Redmond realize the power of a Mac in advertising and in computing.

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  • http://adam.gerstein.net Adam

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

  • http://tuaw.com Mike Rose

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

  • Goatman

    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.

  • http://www.thekingspoker.com/ Ian

    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…

  • David

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

  • http://www.joelesler.net Joel Esler

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

  • http://www.dauclair.com Daryl Auclair

    HAHAHAHAHAH!!! I love my mac!

  • http://typicalmacuser.com typicalmacuser

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

  • http://typicalmacuser.com typicalmacuser

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

  • http://typicalmacuser.com typicalmacuser

    Good catch Rose. You coming to the EXPO man!

  • http://typicalmacuser.com typicalmacuser

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

  • http://typicalmacuser.com typicalmacuser

    Cool , I love learning things.

  • http://www.pingtrip.com Dave C

    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.

 

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