Advertising OOPS
Oct. 22nd, 2009 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathboy
This is actually Currys / Dixons / PCWorld's advert for the fact that Windows 7 is out!
Am I the only person who doesn't think the message here is "Windows 7 won't run on your existing PC, better throw it away and get a new one at great expense"?
Way to undermine an actually decent MS product in an attempt to shift your own overpriced hardware!
Classic!
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Date: 2009-10-22 01:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-22 01:44 pm (UTC)No, the REAL message is, "When you install Windows 7 on your machine, it will fuck things up so badly that you will have to throw away the entire machine and start over."
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Date: 2009-10-22 08:33 pm (UTC)*dum dum tish*
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Date: 2009-10-22 08:06 pm (UTC)too much hassle, disappointing. sorry.
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Date: 2009-10-22 08:29 pm (UTC)I love it for it's potential, but I've tried Ubuntu, Red Hat, Suse, Debian, and others... it's just not a replacement OS for anyone who isn't on the fringe of computer users.
and OH GOD the hardware issues...
It's a *GREAT* secondary OS tho.
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Date: 2009-10-25 01:47 am (UTC)The thing that impressed me most though was the fact I didn't get the Fear & Loathing I normally get when I have to use Windows and in fact actually quite like it (I use Linux as my main OS at work and OS X at home)
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Date: 2009-10-23 03:51 am (UTC)Try Fedora. You'll be much happier.
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Date: 2009-10-22 02:15 pm (UTC)Totally ruins Microsofts 'this will run better on your current hardware than Vista' game plan.
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Date: 2009-10-22 02:52 pm (UTC)that was largely my thinking.
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Date: 2009-10-22 03:42 pm (UTC)I understand the advert works in context, but poor tag line is poor.
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Date: 2009-10-22 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-22 03:03 pm (UTC)"You don't need a new PC, but we're hinting that you do as we like to sell expensive PCs, and we hope you're too stupid to understand that you don't. It's legally watertight as we can say that the advert is supposed to suggest that Windows 7 turns your existing PC into something new."
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Date: 2009-10-22 05:35 pm (UTC)Having said that, these adverts are for sheeple, and I echo most of the above.
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Date: 2009-10-22 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-22 05:48 pm (UTC)In other words, it says, "If you install this, you're GOING to need a new PC!"
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