Windows 8 general availability is coming October 26th. To promote it, Microsoft is giving it an ad campaign all of its own. You can preview it with the 30 second video embedded after the jump. … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2012
Facebook’s first ad and its parodies
Facebook recently crossed the 1 billion user threshold. That puts their membership at 1/7th of the world's population. Despite the quantity of members, the company has not been doing so well since going public (though they're still doing better than Zynga in the stock market). Last week, Facebook put out a video to promote the company. It doesn't focus a whole lot on selling … [Read more...]
Symantec throws server off a building in high availability demo
To demo their high availability product for Linux servers, Symantec had two servers hooked up, operational, and using their service. They then threw the primary datacenter server off the top of the building to smash into the sidewalk below. According to the guy giving the thumbs up symbol, their services were still up even though they had just lost a datacenter. … [Read more...]
Windows 8 available for pre-order
Two weeks out from general availability (October 26th) and physical copies of Windows 8 are available for pre-order through select merchants. Amazon.com, Staples, Best Buy, the Microsoft Store and others may be offering this Windows 8 pre-order. The physical disk comes with 5 fancy "variants" for the cover and retails for $69.99. Otherwise, on October 26th, digital downloads … [Read more...]
Don’t sell your soul cheap with Facebook Apps
I was recently recommended a promotion from Amazon and Unilever for a $2 MP3 credit. I don't buy a whole lot of music and these small promotions are great because they tend cover a song or two on the rare occasion that I have a song in mind to buy. This promotion is easy enough. You just answer a question about what you would include in a care package. However, after you answer … [Read more...]