As expected, Microsoft unveiled their first wave of "Real PC" ads tonight featuring a wide range people who break the PC stereotype that has been set by Apple in their ads.
According to Microsoft "the ads will feature green architect Edouard Francois, astronaut Bernard Harris and celebrities such as Eva Longoria and Deepak Chopra, but the main focus is on real PC users of all ages and from all walks of life, such as teachers, cabbies, designers and fish mongers."
The ads also feature a Microsoft engineer, dressed as the sterotype PC from the Apple ads, who looks so much like John Hodgman... it's scary.
You can upload your own "I'm a PC" clip on Microsoft's new "Life Without Walls" site, which may be featured in online ads or on the big screen in Times Square, New York.
Video: Pride | Not Alone | Sterotype
View: imapc.lifewithoutwalls.com
View: Microsoft Press Release
This is my personal blog being used as a news portal for another web site. News I find interesting will be posted here and then picked up via the RSS feed to use on another site. Please contact me with any questions.
Friday, September 19, 2008
First wave of 'Real PC' ads go public
Blog Archive
-
▼
2008
(436)
-
▼
September
(52)
- Microsoft, Washington State Sue Scareware Firms
- Hubble Space Telescope Suffers Serious Failure
- SpaceX Falcon 1 lifts off successfully, first priv...
- Jack Thompson Disbarred
- New Xbox Experience site adds interactive demo
- Study Shows Average User Is Pretty Stupid When It ...
- LHC Particle Accelerator Offline Until Spring
- Microsoft releases new Ultimate Extras - Microsoft...
- Portable Rock Band drum kit rids your living room ...
- Mysterious New 'Dark Flow' Discovered in Space
- T-Mobile Launches Google Android-based G1 Phone
- New features let you bring your Rock Band band int...
- Top Music Publishers Back slotMusic Format
- The New Xbox Experience Avatars Video
- First wave of 'Real PC' ads go public
- Shuttle Endeavour Moves to Launch Pad as Rescue Ship
- Cryptic Reveals Star Trek Online Details
- Historic first look at an alien world, 3106 trilli...
- ATI Catalyst 8.9 Display Driver released
- Mirror's Edge is delivered onto consoles Nov. 11, ...
- DirecTV to deliver HDTV to your computer?
- Video peek inside the futuristic interior of the 2...
- Guitar Hero 4's New Instrument Revealed
- Feast Your Eyes: The 2011 Chevy Volt
- Best Buy to Purchase Napster
- Scientist Transmits Solar Power on Earth, Next Up:...
- Possible First Photo of Planet Around Sun-Like Star
- Guitar Hero World Tour Setlist Revealed
- Extra Life charity lets gamers battle cancer
- Report: Windows 7 Beta 1 Slips from October to Dec...
- Firefox 3.1 To Add Private Browsing?
- Microsoft SideWinder X8 gaming mouse uses new Blue...
- Swype to make typing on a touchscreen faster and e...
- Scream of Black Hole's Birth Detected Halfway Acro...
- Secret of Nearby Explosive Star Revealed
- Large Hadron Collider comes online, world fails to...
- Netherlands to power 90,000 homes with chicken manure
- Large Hadron Collider to Go Online This Week Despi...
- New satellite to give Google Maps unprecedented re...
- Stephen Colbert to Have His DNA Sent Into Space
- Raptr Makes Gaming Even More Social
- Mars Water Mystery Surfaces
- Rock Band disc export goes live, costs $5 for 55 t...
- Space Shuttle Atlantis Moves to Launch Pad
- Sysinternals Tools Now Available as a Single Download
- TiVo debuts a super-sized 1 Terabyte HD DVR
- Why Early Earth Did Not Freeze
- Xbox 360 price cuts official: 60GB $299, Elite $39...
- TiVo fans rejoice: HD, MPEG-4 TiVo returning to Di...
- How to Build Lunar Homes From Moon Dirt
- Introducing Picasa 3.0 (and big changes for Picasa...
- GeoEye-1 Satellite to Provide Images to Google
-
▼
September
(52)