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Microsoft window display gets hijacked by Macheads
THE INTERNET is all abuzz with a story about how Apple fanboys managed to take over a Microsoft window display in a New York department store.
Microsoft partnered with Saks Fifth Avenue to put video displays, hooked up to computers, in the legendary department store's windows for the holiday season.
Some of the displays were hooked up to Twitter to show real time tweets about Windows 7. The idea was that by using the #holidaywindows hash-tag on Twitter, people's tweets about Windows 7 would pop up in the Saks display.
However the Internet is full of stories about Apple fans who apparently have hijacked #holidaywindows and are sending tweets such as "Get a Mac" and "Windows is lame."
But while the smug tweets are appearing on Twitter and being joked about on the world wide web, the Apple fanboys actually have been largely wasting their time.
The Vole said that if any of the tweets actually got onto the displays it would have been only by accident.
There's a filter in place for the Saks window display Twitter feeds, and Microsoft says most negative tweets are being filtered out automatically. There is also a human backup, it says.
Microsoft spokesvole Lou Gellos said what Apple fans are claiming they are writing is not what is actually being seen in Saks windows.
It does seem odd that the Vole would make such a horrendous cock up like that. After all it does not make many - well, other than Microsoft Bob, ME, Clippy and Vista.
What is amusing is all these Apple fanboys believe they are so funny and clever posting things that are so inane and stupid. But we guess that explains the comments down below, too. µ
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You and I need to have a little chat, Eldgridge, about something called irony.
Nick, believe it or not, is taking the piss. Yes, indeed - the yellow, runny stuff. He is not running an anti-Apple crusade - and being honest here, your post makes you look a bit thick. Either that - or seriously lacking in the GSOH department.
If you expect Nick to write anything positive about Apple, you don't get it.
If you come to the Inquirer looking for news articles, you don't get it.
If you rant on at Nick for his anti-Apple "bias", you clearly don't get it.
Are you getting it, yet?
dude your missing the point.
its a win win for the stevelovers:
either a. twit gets on
or b. microshit openly admits its advertising stand and likely other practices directly related to advertising are openly manipulated, not the truth, misleading, and censored.
Which of course is NEWS _
Windows is for Retards.
Must be a slow day at the Inquirer to post something for no other purpose than to provoke responses.
I get the impression every day is a little slow at the Inquirer recently.
I'm not sure which is more sad, the fact that you have to buy a copy of CPU magazine to read Mike Magee, or that his legacy is being maintained by Nick Farrell.
Obviously, one reads The Inquirer for the "advocacy journalism" as well as the traditional kind, but Nick's bias against Apple, it's CEO, users, shareholders, and engineers, is beginning to stink like sour grapes.
I can't find a single article written by Mr. Farrell that covers Apple that doesn't attempt to offend or cast dispersion on anyone he feels is fool enough to consume a product made by a consumer products company.
Mr, Farrell, a snarky comment here or there is one thing, but your apparent jihad taints not just your writing, but the publication, it's (lack of) editing staff, and is turn off to at least one long-time reader.
You only choose to write negative stories about Apple (which I imagine, is your right), and *then* you lace them with (redundant) pointless insults. Were you afraid otherwise you might be thought to be too subtle?
For instance, this article seems a little light on actual news content. "Reporting" about some teeny-boppers brag about defacing a Windows sign you reguritated from Digg isn't exactly news.
Didn't you already meet your daily snot quota with your actual news-content-containing story about the 27" Imac failures?
If we want to read rants about how personally affected someone is by the perception of superiority, that's what foxnews.com is for.
Of course, you'll happily deflect this as a rant from some fanboy, and that's true....
I'm a technology journalism fanboy.
Does it do real *IT* work?
Windows users are so touchy and defensive and need to get a life - they can't even take a joke. They were even afraid to laugh when Steve Ballmer did his developers, developers, developers monkey dance. C'mon guys, can't you find some laughter down in your corrupted registries?
Microsoft said that, they filtered out the negative comment.
They didn't say, we filtered out the stupid lame comments that come from Macfanboi PC noobs,lol.
Love linux, but win7 is beautifully done, so it deserves some success.
Mac lovers are annoying.
... and SEGA GENESIS RULES!!!
Love your articles, Mr. Farrell.
Keep 'em coming...
Crazy anti Windows fans should really get a life, and not trash store displays and make stupid jokes.
"But we guess that explains the comments down below, too. µ"
Just brilliant.
Apple and Linux die-hards (most people are simply appreciaters or fans), are some of the most annoying people ever.
It's almost as bad as the Sega vs Nintendo arguments we had... when we were 8 years old.
"But we guess that explains the comments down below, too."
Your filter is better than Microsoft's, (so far)
The message I take away from this incident is that the perpetrators are smug, infantile, and rather naive.
If they set out to parody the average apple fanboy they did a fantastic job. ;)
hehe .. muahhhaa... wicked way of keeping fanbois quiet on this one..
COME ON! make my day and post something!
"What is amusing is all these Apple fanboys believe they are so funny and clever posting things that are so inane and stupid. But we guess that explains the comments down below, too."
Your words speak for themselves, have you got a problem?