I disagree.  I am a Mac owner (not a fanboy) and while Mac fanboys are completely UGH-worthy, they are only surpassed by Nintendo fanboys.  I face-palm every time I hear or see a Nintendo Fanboy at work.

I disagree.  I am a Nintendo owner (not a fanboy) and while Nintendo fanboys are completely UGH-worthy, they are only surpassed by.. JESUS CHRIST, it's a lion! Get in the car!

First of all, I didn't come out with the ad, Microsoft did.

Second of all, yes, it SHOULD be all about "Go PC, everyone is doing it!"  IT IS THE EXACT SAME ADVERTISING TACTIC APPLE USES, AND IT WORKS VERY WELL ON MOST OF SOCIETY.  Just because YOU aren't dumb enough to fall for that doesn't mean everyone else isn't.  Hell, Apple's tactic takes it one step further.  They spend all their ad time criticizing the competition instead of actually saying what their product does.  In fact, they take it to the degree of leading you to believe that Windows can't do things that we all know full well it CAN DO.  Are the ads funny?  Yes.  Are they true?  Hardly ever.  But the funny goes a long way.

While you may not find Microsoft's ads clever or funny in any way, I think they are taking the high road.  They're talking about their own product, not making fun of the other ones and spreading total lies.  And the commercials we've seen so far are just a small part of what it's going to develop into down the road.

Nobody has any right to crucify Microsoft for advertising.  All companies do it.  What do you want them to do, sit idly by and watch Apple continue to gain market share.  Should they just wring their hands and not compete?  People are only making it a point to criticize these ads because it's Microsoft.  That's the ONLY reason this is such a big deal.  I for one am not going to take them to task for trying to improve their image in a mature way instead of putting two bozos in front of a blank white screen and catering to the lowest common denominator of computer users.

wth
"im a pc and im being sterotyped"
direct shot because they got a look alike of the apple pc guy. nub :)

Didn't you hear man? One day we'll all be forced to use OS X. It's too late for Microsoft!

apples lies and slander, can you list them for me, ill try and address them, i find it fun

remember macbook pro won pc magazines best windows computer of the year


@mr. Y really cool im ready then... will i still be able to play my legacy games in dos, various flavors of windows i have on my old boxes... also will my powerpc tower be allowed to run in the glory that is this future

edit also where did all of these MS fans come from, and where have they been in the console discussions... or are they like me where i use apple computers, and ms consoles .... they use sony and nintendo consoles and defend windows.... ow my head hurts.. i guess sony and nintendo need to step up and make os's and apple needs to make consoles... or maybe apple needs to buy nintendo, and take care of two things at once. 

goddog, OS X MEANS OS X, you'll be forced to use it.. which also means you can't switch to Linux..

@mr. Y i can live with that, civ still comes out for it, but that does not answer, my question about powerpc osx computers, which i have 2 of, and might buy a 3rd (i love the cube might by an old one an mod it into a file server)
and i covered if its no, i have an intel mac here too, but i really only use it to boot windows, or run client meetings in osx... do all my work on my old powermac,

Haven't you been paying attention to this thread!? Your demon machines are overpriced! Why would you want more!?