They are expecting their first child and are seeking out a name for their son. Do you have any suggestions? You can see photos from their Switzerland wedding at Gototennisblog.com. The couple looks so happy and had one beautiful wedding. Check out the Gillette “Staying Alive” ad with Federer below.

Image Credit: Newscom

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Federer, Jeter and Woods Gillette Commercial

A couple of weeks ago I posted the video of a commercial that’s been hitting the small screen lately that’s promoting just how easy it is to use Windows Live Photo Gallery.

It’s a part of a larger series all focused around "rookies" or novices using Windows products and applications.

The question we raised before that we’ll keep asking. Is it really that simple? Some people think so, but I’m interested in hearing more opinions from people that haven’t made it to the small screen commercial career yet.

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Rookies Showing Us How Easy It Is

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I really do enjoy the PC vs. Mac TV commercials. I think they’re extremely creative and entertaining. I don’t feel they are exactly based on facts or research though.

The one above for instance implies that Microsoft is spending only a fraction of their money into actually improving Vista.

The other interesting commercial out recently is the one where PC has a buzzer and "censors" the word "Vista" anytime it’s said.

Source: GrokDotCom "The Larger Truth Behind Apple’s New Commercial

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Is Microsoft Honestly Ignoring Vista

I’m a big fan of the Apple/PC commercials, but it’s not because they enlighten me on the truth between the two computers. It’s because they’re well done and funny. Microsoft is tired of the the commercials being taken as fact and will be starting a campaign to battle that mindset.

In a clear dig at Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) and it’s ‘I’m a PC, I’m a Mac’ advertisements, Brooks suggested that Microsoft is preparing to retaliate against "noisy competitors" with a major new multi-million dollar advertising campaign, something that many channel partners have been hoping the software giant would do for months.

Security is probably one of the biggest targets that Vista has had on its back, which the facts clearly don’t support.

Vista has actually had a cleaner security track record in its first year since launch than any other open source or commercial OS in history, Brooks said. Vista also had 20 percent fewer security problems than XP in 2007, and users running Vista are 60 percent less likely to get malware than those running XP SP2, he added.

Now that XP is off the shelves and everything will be loaded with Vista are more people going to start to see the benefits and advantages of Vista? Will they also see that given the timeline of release between Vista and XP, Vista is much more advanced and ahead of the game than XP was at it’s same age?

I regularly here more comments from people that say they like Vista. There may various situations or individual items that are frustrating, but again, XP had some of the same frustrations for most people at some point in their life of usage of the operating system.

What do you think? Should people just get over XP and understand that the more people just jump in and start using Vista, the more opportunities for improvement will be available?

Source: ChannelWeb Microsoft: The Vista Bullying Stops Here via VistaNews and Deb Shinder

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Microsoft Isn’t Going to Take It Anymore

How about it Apple? Are you up to the challenge?

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Mac Commercials Challenge

Get all the details at Forever Geek at their post Dress Like a Mac … Or a PC!

Two things. I originally named the graphic above macguywear.jpg, and I thought, “Wow! That looks alot like MacGyver!” If you think about it, MacGyver is a nice combination of Mr. PC and Mr. Mac. Casual, yet sophisticated, capable of figuring out anything.

Lastly, these commercials are very entertaining. I think the last one should be the Mac guy coming out dressed like the PC guy and standing in for him in a business meeting. After all, with Bootcamp, you can run Windows and do everything a PC can do right?

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Dress Like a TV Star

It’s interesting that my friend also recently commented on the same commercial I did, but from the other angle. Let me also clarify that from a marketing perspective, it was a good commercial. Apple definitely got their point across. The most interesting comment from my friend though was what he shared that he heard in a podcast. That maybe the whole purpose of the Boot Camp functionality is to get back into the educational system. He shared:

Now, with the ability to run both platforms and use the educational software and games you have, you can have an easy-to-operate, safe network of Macs running the software made to run on your PC.

That my friends is a very interesting strategy that I have not heard before and think really could be key. My only experience with Apple’s and Macs has been in an educational setting. First with Apple IIe’s and stuff, then later in college with a small Mac lab I used for doing some desktop publishing.

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I like Macs