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To: Swordmaker
Hmmmm... Microsoft pulled the people giving the price of the Mac out of the ad after Apple changed prices. The price change meant the ads were no longer accurate, not that they were originally inaccurate, so it's not like MS did anything illegal.

OTOH, Turner's original statement that he did cartwheels down the hall and that it was the greatest phone call he's ever gotten is stupid unless he's a gymnast that never gets phone calls. It was a simple call from a legal department to notify a competitor that claims about a product weren't accurate. Turner tried to spin it like, "Oh, we're REALLY getting to Apple! They called us to complain about our ads!" In fact, it's a little pathetic that MS acts like it's a great victory that the smaller company reacted to them. The PC shopper ads are good. For MS, after the Mojave and Seinfeld commercials, they're like a masterpiece. How tough is it to follow a seven minute commercial about a stolen leather giraffe that shows Jerry Seinfeld clipping his toenails, though?

The PC shopper ads show people who don't know much about PCs getting sold a PC by a PC salesman who's giving them the computer and trying to convince them to get the PC instead of the Mac. They're good commercials, but...let's face it, I'm a Mac guy and if someone gave me a fifteen hundred dollar PC for free, I'd look happy, too.

11 posted on 07/24/2009 6:35:20 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Richard Kimball
so it's not like MS did anything illegal.

If they didn't change them they would have.

19 posted on 07/25/2009 5:32:56 AM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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To: Richard Kimball
so it's not like MS did anything illegal.

If they didn't change them they would have.

20 posted on 07/25/2009 5:33:49 AM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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