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Apple Fans Flood Microsoft Window Display With “Get A Mac” Tweets


Department store Saks Fifth Avenue is running a Christmas display in New York City, sponsored in part by Microsoft, where well-wishers can send messages from Twitter to the store window.

In a rather unsurprising, but still entertaining, turn of events a lot of those people express the holiday spirit with “Bah Microsoft!” which then pops up on the Windows screen.

Microsoft screen sings the praises of Mac.

Microsoft screen sings the praises of Mac.

A few recent ones:

midy No need for a black and blue holiday. Black Friday is coming, why would you want a blue screen of death? Get a Mac.

RGNeighbour Friends don’t let friends buy PC’s. GET A MAC!

If you want to get in on the holiday fun, read the shenanigans or send your tweet try this:  #HolidayWindows .

UPDATE: The GNU/free software folks have also jumped on the bandwagon:

kennydude #holidaywindows Get Ubuntu, it’s free and easy-to-use. It’s also secure, customizable and does more than Windows. By @fernandovalente

rodrigoy Very happy with my Linux: No locks-up, no blue screen, no anti-virus, no malwares, no bullshit…

The interesting thing — with all the obscenities and potentially obnoxious other stuff that could’ve come up that Microsoft should’ve worried about, they’re getting a playful public bashing, which they also might have predicted…

Via MacDaily News

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9 comments

    Just contributed to the hijacking :p

    Goes to show how ignorant Mac users are, running their system without any protection because Jobs said it’s ok… Fools…

    @petur “Goes to show how ignorant Mac users are, running their system without any protection because Jobs said it’s ok… Fools…”

    your post is off topic and yes, my Mac runs without virus protection – very well for over 1.5 years already.

    “Goes to show how ignorant Mac users are, running their system without any protection because Jobs said it’s ok… Fools…”

    Truly is off topic and no, Jobs never said and said otherwise.

    BTW, Been running a Mac without virus protection Since Mac OS-X came for about 9 years, thank you.

    Gosh – I’ve been running without virus protection since the first Mac in 1984. Still waiting for my first virus.

    And I seem to recall that Apple has told me over and over that I should use a virus checker, and even supplied one to .Mac subscribers.

    Running OS X for nearly a decade now without an antivirus, no viruses so far.

    Everything on this page makes me laugh. The anti-microsoft tweets are a nice little prank, i guess you would call it, and “petur” saying we are all fools for not having antivirus on our machines. We aren’t fools, but remind me again how many mac viruses there are? And the percentage of mac users who will ever get one?

    I got a virus in my Mac once.
    It was 1995. I remember now… A nice and warm afternoon…
    At that time people created an antivirus for him, and I killed him!
    I think he was the only one of his kind. They were extinguished and this is my fault. I’m sorry!

    You should really do your homework. Have you seen a single photo or video of a Tweet from a mac fan boy in any of theeh Windows. Your video here is straight from Microsoft’s YouTube account, and the photo is widely being circulted with a microsoft credit. So not only are you inaccurate, your trying to pass off other people’s content as your own.

    Saks is not that stupid to let it go unfiltered. What’s funnier, and sad is all teh energy these mac fans are spending on this. Couldn’t they be doing something useful with that time?

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