The week in your words: Chrome and punishment

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Posted on 5 Sep 2008 at 17:13

Google have been forced into this by Internet Explorer, but it is naive to think that Firefox won't suffer as a result."

The Vista fightback begins

And we finish with Microsoft, which this week began its $300m campaign to win over the hearts and minds of Vista philistines with an advert that brilliantly failed to mention Vista even once. Shoes, yes. Circuses, yes. Vista, nope. But then people like those things. If we were Microsoft, we'd ask for our money back and go with this from earlybomblight.

"Here's an alternative, cheaper and slightly less embarrassing Vista ad: Windows Vista. Not as bad as you might think."

Or alternatively gavomatic57, who has his own... erm... methods.

"What they need to do is take out all the forum FUD-spreaders - the ones who have either never used it or haven't since Beta 2! Employing trained snipers would be going a bit far however."

What about untrained ones? Brumsta was equally unimpressed.

"Stupid and irrelevant advert. Moist OS? They would be better off donating $299m to worthy causes and spending $1m telling people they did so. Idiots."

Well it made us laugh, but then we're tech journalists and easily amused. Speaking of which we're off to the pub to flick peanuts at each other and blame it on the innocent guy at the bar.

Have a good weekend, see you Monday.

Author: Stuart Turton