Microsoft is turning into the McCain campaign

Less than four hours before Steve Jobs introduces new laptops today, Microsoft is already circulating whiny-baby, anti-Apple Talking Points??

They offer charts comparing the feature lists of similarly priced Windows and Mac notebooks and make numerous accusations of an "Apple Tax." The email is interesting: nothing they say is incorrect, but none of it is new. Most importantly, all of it misses the point completely.

Seriously. Talking points??

Hmm, maybe after this campaign is over, Steve Schmidt can get a job after all...

Wait a second:

(Left to right: Steve Schmidt, Steve Ballmer, artists' renditions)

It just keeps getting better

Those new lame Microsoft ads that are going to replace the old lame Microsoft ads?

Made on a Mac.

Here is the monstrosity.

Wow.

Most defensive ad ever?

New Coke Redux

The Bill Gates-Jerry Seinfeld ads? Cancelled.

UPDATE:

Oh, Lord. The replacement sounds much, much, much worse.

Really, a John Hodgman lookalike?

The irony, of course, is that:

Hodgman : lame, cheap knock-off of Hodgman :: OS X : Windows.

Who are the Ad Wizards?

After watching this puzzling concoction that Microsoft somehow thinks will help them...



...the difference in worldview between Microsoft and Apple has never been clearer. Microsoft hired Jerry Seinfeld.

Apple would have hired Larry David.