Microsoft's 'I'm A PC' Campaign Was Created on Mac

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Posted September 20, 2008 at 1:34pm by iClarified

It turns out the Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' campaign was created on Macs running Adobe Create Suite 3, according to an observant Flickr user.

Flickr user LuisDS found that metadata on the photo of PC and other photos appearing on Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” website show that they were made using Macs running Adobe CS 3. You would think that Microsoft would use Windows PCs running Microsoft Expression Studio software, which the company says, “takes your creative possibilities to a new level."

After LuisDS published this information on Flickr, Microsoft spent the night trying to remove these details from their files. This morning the files have been changed resulting in the 272 KB photo ballooning to 852 KB.

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Robert - September 21, 2008 at 9:18am

Lyrrad: It may not be news... but it is curious. It's sort of like if Obama told someone in confidence that he would vote for McCain. And besides, this time it wasn't Apple people who made Microsoft look bad; they did it all by themselves.

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Matt - September 21, 2008 at 2:44am

Lyrrad, I don't think they are trying to make Microsoft look bad, I think the are just making fun of them. I mean isn't that what the 'Iam a PC' campaign did?

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Lyrrad - September 20, 2008 at 5:23pm

Come on People, are we that desperate to make Microsoft look bad. Do we really think that they would dictate what tool the designers and editors should use. This is silly and not news worthy, the fact that there is yet another issue with the iPhone that might burn my house down (one week after I upgraded to the 3G), that's news and that upsets me. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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Pong - September 20, 2008 at 3:36pm

Actually it makes perfect sense; most ad companies use macs, so why wouldn't it be made on a mac?

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Morde - September 20, 2008 at 2:50pm

Theres nothing stupid. The Add company was using macs, Microsoft cant deside what computers does some add company use.

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iJacks - September 20, 2008 at 2:43pm

Come on ppl i'm a apple fan as well but to beileve this would be seriously stupid!

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