Well The new advert that Microsoft is doing as an answer to the mac v pc adverts is out and it is rather an odd advert. At the moment at least, it does not make much sense to me. The way I see it is that most people have no choice but to use Microsoft Windows and those that have a choice, either use windows anyway or choose something else. If they use something else they have a good reason for it and if they use windows they have a good reason for it, maybe for gaming, work or whatever. So my question is why does Microsoft need to advertise given that those using other operating systems are unlikely to change to windows and the rest are already using windows anyway for one reason or another?

Now I don’t use windows myself but from where I’m standing It looks to me that windows is suffering on the Netbook platforms, they should be looking to do something in that market and with the Chinese coming out with new processor architectures for these machines which only support Linux, microsoft should be slightly worried. Who’s going to buy a microsoft netbook for $300 when they can get a linux one with firefox and openoffice for $50? X86 processors aren’t looking to have a great future on low cost Netbooks but dragon processors which are much cheaper might just have a chance. Anyway without further ado here is the advert;

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