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Microsoft does it again!

Microsoft likes to use Macs in their ads, this time for an anti-spyware app
It's a titanium PowerBook G4 with an, uhm, all white screen:

http://www.microsoft.com/
http://i.microsoft.com/h/en-us/i/antispyware_4_10.jpg
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Really shows that they are even too scared to use their own crappy products in their ads.
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um... if i am not mistaken, MS makes software. not computers. (and all they are really showing is the computer :-\

but what ever. macs make for better photo ops
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um... if i am not mistaken, MS makes software. not computers. (and all they are really showing is the computer :-\

but what ever. macs make for better photo ops
I really wouldn't want an anti-spyware app from Microsoft on my Mac though.
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have you heard about it? it's a wonderful concept - they're gonna make people pay for as soon as everyones got it... CASH COW! make people pay again for a shoddy product.....
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where is that pic on the main spyware beta page?

I can't seem to find it...i'd like to directly link to that...i think otherwise people would think it's photoshopped
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It's back on the front page :P http://www.microsoft.com/
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