{"id":454,"date":"2008-09-22T10:32:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2008-09-22T11:50:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T15:50:49","slug":"the-plot-thickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/09\/the-plot-thickens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plot Thickens"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"what<\/a>

what are you doing, Steve?<\/p><\/div>\n

Over the weekend, a lot of dirty laundry was aired about Microsoft’s anti-Apple campaign, including:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The entire campaign was created on Macs<\/a>, as evidenced by metadata scraped from some of the ad campaign’s photos.<\/li>\n
  2. The ad agency behind the campaign, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, was profiled a few months ago on Apple’s Pro site as being fanatical Apple users<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. Microsoft’s Mojave experiment — designed to convince users to take another look at Vista — apparently fudged a lot of its numbers<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. The Times quote that Microsoft uses on all of their campaigns, ‘Windows Vista is beautiful,’ was apparently taken out of the context of a highly critical David Pogue article<\/a>, in which he talks about how clunky the OS is and how most of the interface was ripped off from Apple.<\/li>\n
  5. RoughlyDrafted wrote a concise, chilling <\/a>rebuttal to Paul Thurrott calling Apple ‘the Bad Guys’ and ‘liars’ for exposing Vista’s flaws (which brings up a very good point — could Microsoft possibly make the argument that MacOS has huge flaws?\u00a0 I’d like to see that one.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    All of this adds up to what looks like a huge embarrassment for Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Over the weekend, a lot of dirty laundry was aired about Microsoft’s anti-Apple campaign, including: The entire campaign was created on Macs, as evidenced by metadata scraped from some of the ad campaign’s photos. The ad agency behind the campaign, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, was profiled a few months ago on Apple’s Pro site as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[179,71,165],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-nice-one","tag-advertising","tag-apple","tag-microsoft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}