Microsoft pokes fun at itself with ‘Troll’ ad.
[advertising / culture / technology]
I love when people can laugh at themselves. But I love even more when brands can laugh at themselves. Microsoft pokes fun at IE and all the haters out there with their latest ad.
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Microsoft did the impossible: the new Hotmail is fantastic.
It’s easy to hate on Microsoft. (A Google search for “why I hate Microsoft” gives 20MM+ results.) But they’ve given Hotmail a makeover, and damn does it look good! As Gizmodo says, “Hotmail-which-is-now-Outlook doesn’t look like it crawled out of a late 90s sex dungeon, pulling its own cluttered, woefully-designed entrails in tow… It might be the handsomest webmail in the land.” So dig up your old Hotmail password and try it out. I don’t know how long I’ll stick with it, but I’m definitely willing to try it out!
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The original logos of tech companies.
A look back in time at the original logos of companies like Motorola, Lego, Microsoft, etc. Makes me wonder if Hipster Logos is actually just an oldies logo interpretation… Along the same lines, a student recently re-defined Microsoft’s logo. I gotta say that, while similar to Lenovo’s branding, I’m a much bigger fan of what he’s come up with than the window pane style Microsoft is currently using.
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Microsoft announces Surface.
Could it be? A bird? A plane? An iPad competitor?! Only time will tell, but I’m itching to get my hands on Microsoft’s Surface.
Source venturebeat.com
The secret Windows 8 Weapon: Kinect.
Tomorrow marks the Windows release of Kinect and rumors are thatMicrosoft will be building Kinect sensors into their laptops. Could this help Windows make a comeback?
Source TechCrunch
