[michaelalanjones]

I think I see a pattern here. Lauren and Giampaolo both chose HP computers, out of all the manufacturers out there. Micro$oft should have had them both wear Abercrombie and Fitch T-shirts and then they could have gone threesies on the advertising budget. Silly!

As the Lauren debacle demonstrated, what you want is not what you get. If Giampaolo was so technologically savvy, he would have been clutching a crumpled list of must-haves when he approached the store. Instead, he strutted around, fondling every shiny thing in sight, and grabbed something that did not meet his requirements, choosing with his eyeballs and not with his brains.

Why is Micro$oft running these ads, anyway? I guess they are still steamed about the failure of the Jerry Sein-who? ads that ran for a week of leering, jeering and sneering. What a waste of money. They should have realized that Jerry's minefield is so 'early 1990's', like Windows, that many people don't relate with or respond to, anymore. Apple knows what people want - stuff that just works.

Micro$oft should save the money, and hire more programmers to retrofit Windows XP with all the shiny, happy features of Micro$oft Wish-Ta'. Plus, they might want to save a few bones to pay out on all the crass-action lawsuits stemming from computers too weak to satisfy the hefty Wish-Ta' power and memory requirements.

In my opinion, nobody is going to actually purchase Wish-Ta' in this economy, when it requires re-buying everything, just for pretty, pretty. Come on guys, just spruce up XP, and go on with business as usual.

Wait, that's it! Micro$oft is running these ads, because more people are buying Apples, and the only way to "sell" Wish-Ta' is on a new Piece-o-Crap.