{"id":6607,"date":"2013-11-29T16:21:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T21:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2013-11-29T23:47:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T04:47:24","slug":"microsofts-puerile-scroogled-campaign-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/microsofts-puerile-scroogled-campaign-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft’s puerile Scroogled campaign heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"anti-google\"<\/a>Microsoft must be suffering a great deal of angst these days. Forecasts say that Windows will only garner 5% of the tablet market – and the tablet market is where the growth is going to be. While Microsoft wastes time with their childish name-calling campaign “Scroogled”, Google plays the adult and lets the child whimper. I never thought I would see the day when Microsoft stooped to this level. Obviously Microsoft can’t compete in the marketplace so its using its vast cast reserves to attack Google. They should be ashamed, but of course, they are not. This tells me that Microsoft is a ship without a captain, tossed about on an ocean they don’t understand. It’s sad really. All the coffee mugs and all the TV stars(?) in the world, aren’t going to gain Microsoft anything but an even worse reputation as a classless, clueless, pathetic giant, trying to turn back the clock to a time when it reigned supreme.<\/p>\n

Google isn’t reacting to Microsoft puerile attacks because Google has class, something Microsoft lacks.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example from Microsoft’s “Scroogled” campaign:<\/p>\n

Microsoft Enlists Pawn Stars To Mock Google\u2019s Chromebooks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Microsoft’s anti-Google Scroogled campaign is showing no signs of slowing down. Its latest target is Google’s Chromebook. Microsoft has enlisted the stars of the successful reality TV series Pawn Stars to lampoon what it wants you to perceive as the Chromebook’s limitations (\u201cIt’s not a real laptop!\u201d).<\/p>\n

If you’re not familiar with Pawn Stars, it’s a Las Vegas-based reality show on the History Channel where people take their old stuff in the hopes to earn some cash. In Microsoft’s latest ad, a woman wants to sell her Chromebook so she can go to Hollywood. No luck there, of course, as the seller quickly informs her that it’s actually just a \u201cbrick.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA traditional PC,\u201d he informs her, \u201cutilizes built-in applications like Office or iTunes that work even when you’re offline.\u201d Neither Office nor iTunes aren’t exactly \u201cbuilt-in,\u201d of course…
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Microsoft must be suffering a great deal of angst these days. Forecasts say that Windows will only garner 5% of the tablet market – and the tablet market is where the growth is going to be. While Microsoft wastes time with their childish name-calling campaign “Scroogled”, Google plays the adult and lets the child whimper. I never thought\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6610,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}