Microsoft's Marketing Misfires

Despite its status as the most successful PC operating system of all time, Microsoft's Windows has always struggled with a serious image problem. The Big Money's Win Rosenfeld takes a look back at the history of the company's commercial catastrophes.

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• commercials
• microsoft
• apple
• ads
• advertising
• slate
• slate v
• the big money

[grandmasternutz247]

stuck on XP... can't buy new OS... old computer... firefox 4 only works for a bit... sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­owwwwwwww

[hilectro]

There's no doubt Apples marketing campaigns are almost always better. That said, their messages have no point too - 'It just works' doesn't prove anything about why they're so good, and many people find them difficult to use.

I think microsoft should stick with the 'it's cheaper' campaign because it's very truthful and displays a clear advantage of using their products.

Another good campaign was their one for winmo7, where they state 'stop staring at your mobile and get on with life'

[thenamesayejay]

i think that windows7 is good, it hasn't crashed or fucked up on me yet :) it runs fast and like half of the bloatware doesn't exist on the system.

[kristophershaun]

did you hear the good news? JESUS

xp pirated FTW

[yepthatscasper]

my friend works for microsoft here in redmond on the live team and he said windows is much much better now. Sorry but its true MACs kill any budget.

[Polak4infinity]

I dont like the new W7 commercials, there pretty bad. But some of their later commercials were good.

[MCBabeee]

Windows 7 works. My friends has it and it works like frwaking magic and MACS are so dang freaking expensive!

[TwilightWonder]

How can you rip on the Bill Gates-Jerry Seinfeld commercials? Those were hilarious.

[resrchmnkygrl6]

i feel like i learned something new today.

and i'm in college.

i think that says something...

[superk22]

Macs rule!