{"id":229,"date":"2008-09-17T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2008-09-17T01:04:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T08:04:58","slug":"the-future-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/the-future-delicious\/","title":{"rendered":"the future delicious"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re reading this, you probably already know that I work for the largest software company in the world<\/a>.\u00a0 And you probably know that I work on the flagship software project<\/a>.\u00a0 What you might not know is that I’m quite proud to work where I do.<\/p>\n

I’ve never had anything against Windows, even before I worked here.\u00a0 That didn’t keep me from asking my mentor where to get my helmet and light-saber on my first day.\u00a0 After all, I figured these were standard issue at the “evil empire<\/a>“.\u00a0 I’ve had my share of experience drinking the Linux KoolAid while in grad school, and to be honest, there’s still a sweet spot of love for the ‘nix.\u00a0 But, for the most part, I’ve been OS agnostic.\u00a0 I have just stuck with Windows\/Linux at home because it was cheaper and did what I needed to do, even if it didn’t always look pretty.That’s not to say that I’ve never drooled over a MacBook Pro, because I have.\u00a0 They’re pretty svelte.\u00a0 But, when it came down to it, I could never by one because it never quite did what I wanted a computer to do.<\/p>\n

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the future delicious.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This brings us to advertising: Microsoft has launched a new campaign featuring Seinfeld and Bill Gates.\u00a0 The first one didn’t impress me, but the one with the “family” made me laugh out loud.\u00a0 I loved it, and while I don’t know that it’s an adequate response to the Apple advertising campaign, I’m glad to see the company doing something.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While I find them funny, the Mac vs. PC ads have always sat a little bit wrong with me.\u00a0 I think it’s because I’m very wary of fanboys.\u00a0 But it might also be because the Apple ads have always sounded like slander, particularly when they start pushing the edge of truth.\u00a0 They remind me of one-sided, hyped up political ads… and that’s a very quick way to lose my interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That’s why I’m glad to see that Microsoft isn’t attacking but trying to put a personal face on the computer.\u00a0 Bloomberg<\/a> has a pretty good article which summarizes the idea of the campaign in context with Microsoft’s other efforts to improve the PC’s perception in the market.\u00a0 However, Penny Arcade sums up the ad campaign a little differently.\u00a0 I’m afraid that this is how most people are seeing at the moment: http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2008\/9\/15\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you’re reading this, you probably already know that I work for the largest software company in the world.\u00a0 And you probably know that I work on the flagship software project.\u00a0 What you might not know is that I’m quite proud to work where I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[138,30,28,139],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-advertising","tag-m","tag-the-grind","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}