Guy Barrette, Microsoft, Regional Director, Montreal, Canada, Visual Studio, .NET Expertise Mac Elimination - Guy Barrette

Guy Barrette

Microsoft Regional Director, Montreal, Canada

Mac Elimination

The message

In it’s Elimination ad, Apple is implying that there are no viruses on Macs.

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http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

The reality

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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3346&tag=nl.e550

I wonder if Mac users will at some point launch a class action lawsuit against Apple for false advertising.

 
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Posted: May 13 2009, 09:08 AM by guybarrette | with 6 comment(s)
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Mario A Chavez said:

Is the same kind of lies that MS is doing with pc hunters ads, at the end we should not believe ads from any of the sides.

# May 13, 2009 11:40 AM

Jeff said:

The ads don't even matter anymore. I went Mac a little over three years ago and have been much happier since. When my Parallels VM with Visual Studio and such takes a dump, as it often does every six to 12 months, I just bring back a copy of the clean install and get on with it.

The ads are entertaining regardless.

# May 13, 2009 1:37 PM

guybarrette said:

Lies?  Oh yeah, Lauren staged entrance in the Mac store.

# May 13, 2009 1:53 PM

Steve Sheldon said:

I was surprised Apple went that direction with their ads.  It reminds me of the time Larry Ellison said Oracle was bulletproof and only inspired a group of hackers to find the flaws. :-)

# May 13, 2009 2:38 PM

guybarrette said:

Don't get me wrong, I think that Apple has great hardware/software.  What I don't like is the fact that they are promoting the Mac OS as immune to viruses.

# May 13, 2009 3:41 PM

richard.lopes said:

I switched to the Mac 1 year 1/2 ago and the whole makes a lot more sense. Everything is more clean, lean and intuitive. And I am a .Net developer.

Today I run various flavours of Windows in VMware on the MAC and this is just perfect.

Free of viruses is probably some kind of lie, but I got no virus indeed. And to be fair I'm fed up with Microsoft bullshit. They deverse to be bullied a bit, that may wake them up a bit.

# May 13, 2009 5:56 PM
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