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I came across this video on the interwebs and thought long and hard about posting it here. Finally decided to do it. This is not to poke or make fun of anyone or anything, just a very well thought-out video about the inner workings of the Microsof Surface, according to so folks. Enjoy!
Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.
Posted in Humor, Inspiration, Surface, Touch
Just a quick and funny post this time around:
I needed to download a template from Microsoft’s Office 2007 site and upon visiting Microsoft.com, I saw this:
If that doesn’t stike you as funny (or at the very least ironic), then let me put paint a background description. The notebook pictured above is an Apple PowerBook (titanium). Unlike current Macs, it didn’t have an Intel processor and didn’t run Windows natively. Rather, Windows could only be run in a painfully slow virtual mode through the now-discontinued Mac Vitual PC environment. Moreover, the notebook was released in January 2001 and discontinued in September 2003.
So, it’s a great complement to Apple and their design team that Microsoft would use a notebook no longer in production as their home-page PC image for promoting security downloads. It’s a testament to the timeless design Apple’s products have.
What else does it mean to you?
Posted in Apple, Humor, Microsoft
I came across this advertisement targeted at Macintosh users while perusing Downloadsquad.com about a year ago. It’s truly a piece of art that should be in the “I’m with stupid” museum. I’ll let the screenshot speak for itself (cordially pointed to with arrows):
First, the written words aren’t user-friendly, and some would argue, simply don’t jive with what the ad is trying to do: (“Click Next to recommend improvements.”)… Recommend? Shouldn’t it be something like “Click Next to see recommended improvements”? This could be forgiven.
But making an interactive Mac advertisement look like a Windows XP interface is simply inexcusable. It makes me wonder: what kind of a silly (read: uneducated) user would click on such a poorly-designed ad…
Here is another one, recommending Internet Explorer 6 or higher for me on a Mac running Safari 3. The wording in this one was most likely “composed” by an exchange student (again, I’ll let the image speak for itself):
Posted in Humor, Mac, Random
