Just noticed this a site all about Cheese with its own TV Channel…
Those balmy West Country folk have created cheddarvision.tv sit back and watch the cheese…
Microsoft have killed off Clippy – the well-to-do paperclip (or annoying paperclip) – in a new blockbuster themed ad for Office 2010.
What is the 14th instalment – Office 2010 looks set to be fully integratable with ‘cloud’ software, meaning that its suite of products, including Word and Excel, will be based out of the web, instead of the desktop.
Google have just dropped a big spanner in Microsoft’s operating system works and the impending launch of Windows 7 as they announced yesterday that they are going to launch an operating system based on Chrome in 2010.
“However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.”
The beauty of this OS is that it is going to be open source and Google plans to release the open source code for Chrome OS later this year ahead of the launch next year. I wonder if it will be around the same time as Microsoft lunch Windows 7.
The ad opens up with a number of familiar internet memes, including ‘keyboard cat‘ and ‘afro ninja‘, with a voiceover saying “we don’t need queries and keywords if they bring back questions and confusion.”
The ad continues with a number of flashing images with ’search overload’ written across the screen, a voice over reading “staring today we need the right information to make the right decisions. Decisions that help us feel right. Decisions that helps us get to the right place at the right time.”
The ad concludes with “Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to bing and decide.”
A bit ironic that the Ad is featuring on YouTube and that the campaign which launches today in the US across television, print, radio, online, including Google.
