> Microsoft advertised Vista to small businesses in The Wall Street Journal and USA Today the last two weeks, and plans a much larger wave of ads under the tagline "Free the People."<p>War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Proprietary is free.
"The company says 77,000 devices are compatible with Windows Vista today (double the number when the operating system launched) as well as 99% of the major business applications."<p>Might be funny to compare that to OSX. I'm curious what the numbers are. For all Apple's ads bash Vista for incompatibilities, the vast majority of software and some huge percentage of hardware is Windows only.<p>That seems to be the only advantage MS has left, they should use it.
Interesting that Microsoft is playing the "why is everyone bullying us" card. Of course Apple has hard hitting ad campaigns, they are in direct competition with a company that has insane market share.<p>They mention XP had a rocky start. So did Windows Me, but that one ended up being pretty accurate. Maybe Windows can only pull it off every other time?
Why not spend hundreds of millions of dollars on developing usable software and services instead of on ads "selling" us on how usable the software should be... I mean will be... I mean is... I mean.. oh well you get the picture.