Ad for Microsoft's Sync pretty funny
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Microsoft doesn't often produce memorable ads, but the one for its car computer, co-developed with Ford, is pretty good.
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In its campaign to discredit Linux, the main rival to its Windows operating system, Microsoft (MSFT ) once published a witty print advertisement in Germany that showed four penguins standing in a row.
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Flashy new multimedia 'Gadget' ads are designed to draw watchers who'll share what they see.
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Doing some news catch up and came across this interesting item from InfoWorld last week: Google helps promote Windows XP. It&#39;s about how Microsoft&#39;s Partner Pack For Windows is promoting the Google Deskbar.
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BillâGatesâisâonâhisâwayâout.âNowâit's upâtoâRayâOzzieâtoâreviveâthe flaggingâgiant -- andâgetâitâreadyâfor theâpost-desktopâera. By Fred Vogelstein from Wired magazine.
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The New York Times ad for Firefox has become a cause celebre sight unseen. It&#39;s part pat-on-the-back souvenir for Firefox fans, part anti-Microsoft clarion call and part reality check
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Blog: Blinkx now offering contextual ads for video.
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If you search for Yahoo Microsoft, this page is the second hit. I like that of course. It's generating a fair amount of flow, since the combination of Yahoo and Microsoft is a pretty hot topic. Keeping the topic going, I think it's pretty amazing that Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo, but then again, which of all their web efforts has captured our imagination? At least Yahoo has Flickr, and when they try something new, we all try it with them (often with not the greatest results). The rambling continues... If Yahoo is into poison pills, try this one out.  Reserve 5 percent of Yahoo's common stock for blogger options. Put us to work to find new businesses for Yahoo, ones that are relevant to our world. When we find them, reward the bloggers with a significant upside stake in Yahoo's future, not the airy-fairy kind, but real stock that we can trade. Handled properly, it could raise shareholder value by much more than 5 percent. Just the kind of deal they pay you to do, oh Yahoo gods and board members.  Of course it'll never happen. It's an idea like the one I keep proposing for newspapers -- that they hire their public editors from the public, independent bloggers with no journalism experience, with no undue reverence for the institutions so revered by journos. They're going away, just like Yahoo is (sad but true). Now what will rise in their place? Imho, something that's home grown, with the integrity of the people, in our interest. The more they invite the public in, the more clued in they will be when we figure out where we want to go with news on the web. It's why I'm excited about the Obama campaign and why I keep giving to it (I'm up to $400 now). I'm excited because so many other people are excited.  I like his idea about tuition for public service for college students. It's so simple. People want to be involved, they want to use their energy and creativity to solve problems. In the 20th century we were couch potatoes. In the 21st we do it for ourselves.  The first tech company that fully embraces this, not just in the form of User Generated Content (what an insult) but by giving us power (that comes from stock) will rule the world. If Y! had the guts, it won't be long before they're making tender offers to buy out Ballmer.  BTW, I think I understand why Ballmer wants Yahoo! When Yahoo engineers wake up they program stuff like Yahoo Live, which is pretty cool and runs on the web, and while it steals ideas from smaller companies, it adds some pretty cool stuff of its own. When Microsoft engineers wake up they program stuff like Vista, a multi-year, multi-billion dollar waste of money, time and customer goodwill. They can't do another Vista without wrecking the franchise. Now the question is -- where do they go for growth? That's what Yahoo is for.
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Also: Software speaks dogs' language. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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Welcome to the brave new world of interactive Web advertising.
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Storage technology vendors are traditionally too slow and too risk averse to take risks on advertising, but this commerical breaks the mold -- albiet an ugly one.
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TechWeb - Last week's two-page advertisement in the &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; paid for by fans of Mozilla's Firefox browser is bringing in more downloads.
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People have been listening to music on their computers for a long time now - but not quite like this. Microsoft is test-marketing a new Web-based radio service that sounds almost like a local radio station - except without all the interruptions.
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Plus: Is Microsoft search engine crawling Google? [News.com Extra]
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Also: DJ alert: Crack for music techies. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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The computer is impersonal again If you thought adverts on the web have become more offensive and more intrusive than ever before, then it might be time to find alternatives to using software from Microsoft.â¦
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.