Gary Bloomer

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Matt Lauer on NBC's TODAY Show, October 22, 2009 and the launch of Windows 7. Do you notice anything odd about the image in the background?

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841 days ago

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Matt Lauer on NBC's TODAY Show, October 22, 2009 and the launch of Windows 7. Do you notice anything odd about the image in the background?

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tim_gregory 796 days ago

Gary - my theory is that an ad agency placed the windows logo onto the screen of the mac in the shot inside the video, not that you personally faked this all up. It happens all the time - Macs are pretty, so they are used to advertise all sorts of windows

GaryBloomer 840 days ago

Note to and . No, it's NOT Photoshop—bad or otherwise. You'll find links to the actual video in your Twitter stream.

tim_gregory 840 days ago

it's a photoshop job, and unlikely that it was done by anyone at Microsoft.
Macs are so pretty that advertising people like to use them all over in ads, usually with the glowing Apple photoshopped out

debs2k9 840 days ago

at least they spelled "aluminium" correctly!!

mofotronimus 840 days ago

I think that's just bad photoshop.

chucklesjh 840 days ago

: it is a MacBook Pro, the one from 2006/2007, the NON unibody, do you not see the iSight camera?

Balaamsdonkey 840 days ago

: though you are right in your assessment of the cause of the goof, your grammar needs some fixing. "they're" not "their"

matthew_cates 840 days ago

geogiepiebob, your stupid! Macs can run windows. Maybe that was their take on the promotion because of the high impact of macbooks.

georgiepiebob 840 days ago

thats not a macbook, its a powerbook, it can't run windows

(thanks ted, that was the joke)

JasonWelch 840 days ago

Either the designer is a mac fan boy and thought it'd be funny or their just really dumb.

kenabi 840 days ago

oh look, it's oh so hard to install windows on a macbook. yes, lets make fun of them for shopping a win7 promo image into an apple made intel based laptop pic. meh.

WordsHere 840 days ago

Yes. This is from the 22nd and we've known about 7 for AGES. I am using it RIGHT NOW. What is up with that?