This is funny. Ideally such competition would be great if two similar products were competing. Unfortunately MS Windows is so so bad that it smells of desperation. If MS is really serious about this then they should put up both positive and negative comments left by users. Which of course they will not.

Unfortunately I am a XP and Vista user at work (no choice) and a proud mac user at home. Let me tell you that both XP and Vista are simply HORRIBLE. So the Apple ads are not unfair they are just the truth - with a twist of humor thrown in. :-)

I'm a PC on my way into the Apple store to become a Mac!

Your kiosk would have more impact if the sign was changed to:

"I'm a Moron".

Apple can load Windows on to a couple of laptops and Viola! I'm a Mac and I can run Windows as well as any PC. Why not have a Linux box there too.

While your are at it - show the Mac Tower Switching between ALL 3?

As aaka said, this SCREAMS of desperation - it says, M$ is really starting to hurt and we're doing everything we can to claw back our marketshare...except fixing Vista, that is...

So, the article says the kiosk is for leaving your own "I'm a PC" videos. Wouldn't this location just lead to a bunch of pro-Apple anti-Windows videos being left. Be funny if those videos leaked onto the internet.

Quick to throw out the "religious nut case" description aren't you, you Satanist Pagan! : ) You can be easily "Labeled" too my friend, remember that! And I thought a "bigot" is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own. Hey, that kind of defines your post! Does that make you a bigot too?

Anyway, I, for one, do not wish to deny Civil Unions and am in favor of protection of "couples" rights, just not same s** unions defined as marriage, because some want to retain the definition of marriage as the union between one man and one woman.

After all, Apple has a "Prosumer" computer line and a "Consumer" computer line and really either one can be lumped into the PC name and PC mindset, because when you get down to it, the iMac I am typing on right now and my friends MacBookPro laptop she uses for school, basically fits the following definition of a PC.

Definition of a personal computer (abbr. PC) - n its more general usage, a personal computer (PC) is a microcomputer designed for use by one person at a time. Prior to the PC, computers were designed for (and only affordable by) companies who attached terminals for multiple users to a single large computer whose resources were shared among all users. The advent of the era of the personal computer was acknowledged by Time magazine in 1982, when they broke with tradition by choosing the PC as their "Man of the Year." By the late 1980s, technology advances made it feasible to build a small computer that an individual could own and use.

Source: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci214279,00.html

Still want to debate the topic "What's in a marriage" versus "What's in a name, a computer name" when describing PCs?

does the biker who cheats death manage to cheat the blue screen of death as well? just curious.

Really!

I truly don't understand (save by desperation) M$ attitude, you compete ON products, not on campaigns. especially if ones campaign is highly successful and you have an image issue. They should not answer the "I'm a PC" catch phrase and go for something completely different (think different if you can and you should). By adding on the "I'm a PC" especially with, so-so if not a crappy campaign, they are just making advertisement for Apple for 300 millions $, which I doubt is their goal.

M$ has a product problem (at least they know it)
M$ has an image problem (they start to understand it)
M$ has a leadership problem in marketing, advertising, development and zune directions, maybe Mr Balmer should know it.

You don't compete by playing with the concurrence you're facing tricked cards, you bring yours.

Meanwhile, Apple is rising its marketshare (especially where it does communicate well i.e. in the USA, there are things to tell in Europe…)

You guys are all so mad. It's adorable. Uh oh! Your entire end user experience has been ruined.

You guys are all so mad. It's adorable. Uh oh! Your entire end user experience has been ruined.

So some low-end ad guy buys some space at a mall, ends up being in front of an apple store, and all of a sudden its some M$ marketing strategy all the way from the top.

Please...

...how many times will you have to be wrong before you stop talking.

you always take the contrarian view on every story, just to get some recognition, regardless of whether it's positive or negative. like a child who decides that "any attention is good attention". kinda pathetic, really.

Microsoft crying "unfair!" is like a serial killer crying that the lethal injection will sting when he's executed. How is anyone expected to be sympathetic to the 800 lb gorilla who has been beating up PC manufactures and third party software writers for decades? Now the gorilla is throwing a tantrum because he dropped a banana and it got picked up by the smaller, smarter chimp.

Definition of GREED: when 93% market share isn't enough. Dear Micro$uck, you did this to yourself. Reap what you sow. Real computer techs and users see through your impotent tactics. Admitting there's a problem is the first step to resolving it. Crossing your arms, closing your eyes, shaking your head, throwing money at your marketing department, and shrieking as loud as you can is NOT admitting there's a problem.

Misdirection and sleight of hand only work for magicians and politicians. We're not all clueless sheeple.

Never fails... An MS article comes up and all that pops up is a bunch of mac-boi drivel...

Some of you make me sad to own a Mac.

You b*tch about MS for it's lack of class and yet not a word of the lack of class from Apple for their recent Mac v PC ads. Those ads used to actually tell you something about Macs, now they just tell you Windows sucks... Creative? Really?

I thought the Apple commercials about Vista were hyperbole… then I got a PC with Vista at work. Tons of “features� I cannot turn off, much slower than XP at tasks I normally perform, search is much worse than XP unless the content is indexed, I cannot leave my computer on overnight or else I get a blue screen every morning. The Mac vs vista commercials were funny before, but now they are hitting too close to home. Vista has been out for a while and it does have a lot of problems, MS has stopped mentioning vista in ads (windows, windows Mojave, etc), and they are spending a LOT of money for damage control. Not drivel, just reality.

I thought the Apple commercials about Vista were hyperbole.. then I got a PC with Vista at work. Tons of "features" I cannot turn off, much slower than XP at tasks I normally perform, search is much worse than XP unless the content is indexed, I cannot leave my computer on overnight or else I get a blue screen every morning. The Mac vs vista commercials were funny before, but now they are hitting too close to home. Vista has been out for a while and it does have a lot of problems, MS has stopped mentioning vista in ads (windows, windows Mojave, etc), and they are spending a LOT of money for damage control. Not drivel, just reality.

This is the Apple Store in Bullring Birmingham UK!

Before this Kiosk there was a HP all-in-one printer kiosk with a large Vista logo on the side facing the store... so when the sun came though the glass roof the vista logo reflected onto the store windows..

It wasn't there for long...
Plus at the moment, to the left of the store is a flight of stairs with a 30" 'I'm a PC' poster... which shows Windows are fighting a losing battle.

The owner/director of the mall probably has MS stock or investments lol ....I mean ... even H&M next door would complain as it obstructs the view of their displays and clothing. I have the idea that if this was in Cali (mac fanboy HQ) ... they would be a long line of people waiting to get filmed.
"um yes yes .... I use a PC!"
and when they get in the booth ... they say ....
"I am a MAC .. and I need a new mighty mouse, brb"