After taking on Apple Macbooks and iPad with a series of ridiculous advertisements, Microsoft is at it again. This time it has turned up a notch of its’ old “Scroogled” campaign to mock Google and its services. The latest in the series is about Google’s Chromebooks, which Microsoft claims to be nothing but a “brick.”
Microsoft seems to have spent a lot on making this video as they have hired the star of History Channel’s reality show Pawn Star to say some bad stuff about Chromebooks. The advert starts with woman approaching this man hoping to sell her Chromebook to get a ticket to Hollywood. Lead of Pawn Stars then rants that Google Chromebook is “ not a real laptop” since “It doesn’t have Windows or Office.” He call it a device which Google uses to track everything users do online and sell ads.
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Well, technically speaking Chromebooks aren’t actually laptops. They are netbooks, which are made to offer a small, light-weight, affordable alternative personal computing experience for people who work a lot online. Considering this fact, I think this time it’s Microsoft who got screwed with their campaign. It’s more than obvious that Microsoft is starting to get more intimidated by Google’s success. Of course we can’t really blame them because Google is far ahead of Microsoft and has a bright future ahead, thanks to innovative inventions such as Google Glass and widely used Android OS.
You can check out the new ad after the jump.
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