“The rivalry between Microsoft Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. apparently extends to the cast of ‘The Daily Show,'” Todd Bishop reports for The Seattle Post Intelligencer. “Microsoft has reached a deal with Demetri Martin, the comic behind the fake news program’s periodic ‘Trendspotting’ feature, to star in a marketing campaign for the upcoming Windows Vista, according to a story Wednesday in the trade publication The Hollywood Reporter.”
“The report comes after Apple tapped the Comedy Central show’s ‘resident expert,’ John Hodgman, to spoof Windows PCs in its latest TV commercials,” Bishop reports. “Microsoft wouldn’t confirm or deny the story in The Hollywood Reporter. The report, citing anonymous sources, said Martin would be ‘the face of a massive multipronged campaign’ for Windows Vista, the next version of the flagship program, set for retail release next year… Microsoft spent some $200 million on advertising for the 2001 launch of Windows XP, and company executives have said the Vista release will be the biggest since Windows 95.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Further proof, if you needed any more, that Microsoft follows Apple around like a retarded puppy.
See Apple’s “Get a Mac” ads featuring “The Daily Show’s” John Hodgman here.
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I think you have vastly underestimated the creative ability of retarded puppies everywhere by making that comparison.
Will Demetri live long enough to make this gig? I’m surprised they didn’t choose Carrot Top.
It pains me to know Rush is a Mac fan.
It’s ironoc because Demetri Martin owns a PowerBook. I’ve seen it on the Daily Show.
Why would it pain anyone that someone else likes something?
If you really want to be pained, you’re probably drinking his recycled urine.
Steve Jobs himself should do TV spots for Apple.
With any luck it’ll goad Ballmer into doing ads for MS.
The public needs to see the faces behind the companies.
@talent show
Ballmer has already done ads for windows.
I’m sure this will make you smile.
Ballmer Ad
Yikes!
I guess I don’t know what I’m doing with the link. So just copy and paste:
1.0
Ballmer….BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAA!
‘Nuff said!
eyetosky:
Great link!
Ballmer showed “the clock” hehehe
“Hours of fun…or at least minutes.” Still their most useful packaged item.
“Further proof, if you needed any more, that Microsoft follows Apple around like a retarded puppy.”
yes, unfortunately everyone, bar a very few, just see the puppy.
A work colleague of mine said that she believed that Windows popularity was due to the fact that Microsoft had made the computer more accessible to everyday users. I told her that actually it was Apple that did that, and she didn’t believe me.
Biggest launch since Windows 95? What a waste THAT would be on a “re-skinned” Windows XP, when MS could spend all that ad money to create a worthy OS. Windows 95 was actually revolutionary when compared to Windows 3.1, the predecessor. If MS think it can make up for a real “revolution” with marketing dollars, they will be sadly mistaken.
100 computers sold today; 98 windows, 2 mac.
I like Demitri Martin alot. His standup comedy routine cracks me up. It’s a pity he’s on Microsoft’s payroll. I hope he’s not promoting something he doesn’t believe in for that would make him a cash whore. On Microsoft’s part they should have chose a retarded dog instead of Demetri because the BS he’ll have to cook up won’t be believable and a retarded puppy just looks so cute!
Nick, Mudflapper: To use the phrase du jour, you’re both a couple of retarded puppies. Poor, politically repressed, retarded pups, in here spouting off-topic, with no provocation whatsoever.
Leftist tools.
“oor, politically repressed, retarded pups, in here spouting off-topic, with no provocation whatsoever.”
LOL
…so I’m not allowed to mention Rush Limbaugh or Colbert, or you will, uh, call me names? I know these are awkward times to be a “conservative”, but I think you need to turn your “touchiness” dial down a notch or two.
Colbert is from the Daily Show, so that was totally on-topic.
Rush is a big mac fan, and an embarrassment to pretty much everybody with a brain, so I would say my concerns about him are valid and on-topic.
By the way, could someone explain to me what “conservative” people are conserving these days? The long-term financial welfare of the USA? The lives of our troops? American jobs? Our European alliances? The environment? Civil liberties? The status quo? I’m just curious.
“A work colleague of mine said that she believed that Windows popularity was due to the fact that Microsoft had made the computer more accessible to everyday users.”
More accessible than if it had no OS installed, I guess.
The real reason for the “popularity” is that PC makers have had no choice of what they ship their machines with.
MW: truth
What? I have seen many a Demetri Martin segement, and everytime he was on a computer, he was on a powerbook. The traitor.
“The report comes after Apple tapped the Comedy Central show’s ‘resident expert,’ John Hodgman, to spoof Windows PCs in its latest TV commercials,” Bishop reports.”
Hodgman never made an appearance on The Daily Show until AFTER the Apple ad campaign started – unlike this article claims Apple hired him BECAUSE of his status on The Daily Show.
Sorry MS Haters, but you can’t believe every word you read. Not all anti Microsoft propoaganda is fact, I’m sorry to say. The Daily Show hired him pretty much FOR THE PURPOSE of having a laugh at the Apple ad campaign.