Slashdot is making fun of an apparent Microsoft “switch” ad. Okay, the ad they link to is stupid, but the worst ad I have seen in a long time is the Apple Switch ad with the cop who explains that he went from a Wintel machine to a Mac because he couldn’t figure out which cable he needed to buy to transfer video from his digital camcorder to his PC. Yeah, I know, it took me like 3 minutes to get the attention of the salesperson at BestBuy to find out where the FireWire cables were. I think I’ll go out and spend a few thousand dollars on a Mac now to avoid such inconveniences in the future.
That is as lame as the Microsoft feature where the obviously fake person claims that the best thing about MS Office is how, “Toolbars and menus customize themselves to the way I work.” That “feature” is the single worst thing about Office. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t simply go in and turn that annoying bug off (I have had numerous colleagues thank me for showing how to turn off this lame “feature.”)