Wow! Another fake M$ ad with ACTORS! What a surprise!
Well, there are more than enough smart people on this list to dissect the crap out of the ad. Regardless of the individual credibility of Lauren, which can't be spoken to without more information, and the credibility of Microsoft, which doesn't exactly have a good track record lately if ever, it remains as it is. It is just an advertisement. An advertisement wants to make you buy a product. Apple does this by appealing to elitism, Microsoft goes for a different demographic in the consumer space. Personally, I don't really have any platform or OS loyalties. In my world, mission critical doesn't depend on consumer products, at least not professionally. Personally, I'll use what works for what I want to do. I'll build it if they don't sell it to my specs. Yes, I'm a nerd. I'm continually surprised, well maybe not, at all this heat about what is crap and what is gold. Theodore Sturgeon was once advised that "90% of science fiction is crap." He replied, "90% of everything is crap." It all depends on what you want to do. Lauren's new machine WOULD be crap for my applications. But it might be fine for what she wants to do, that was never specified. It was an ADVERTISEMENT.
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