So I was wondering why windows 8 has been pushing commercials on TV, showing women using the windows phone and such.

Turns out they're actually pushing windows 8 as a system for moms and women in general.

This quote is directly from microsoft
in this article
http://advertising.microsoft.com/women-and-moms




The title of the paper is called "Reach your target audience"

Well since the article is about women. we can assume that the target audience is women
and by reach

they're talking about the new app store they're going to put into window 8 where women will buy "apps"
very similar to how apple and the android store sell apps.

No longer is Windows a system for businesses and power users and gamers
no.
It's now a system for moms and women.

And it's no wonder considering all the TV ad's show a woman using the system and acting sophisticated and in love with it.

So JSP
what do you think. Will you switch to win8 or stay on window7

Makes sense. Win8 is awful, and women are a "new" audience. With MS sells declining seems like a rational decision.

lol, this has to be the most painfully twisted and bad attempt at logic that I have read in at least a week or so.

oh how I miss when technology was made for people who use it to its full potential.
QUICK BUY THIS NEW OS TO RUN THE INTERNET ON. YOU KNOW YOU NEED IT!

yeah exactly why i hate windows now.
im switching to linux as soon as they have better game support

I'm pretty sure that this hasn't been true since about ten minutes after the wheel was invented.

Though really, the lack of understanding in the OP is nothing short of amazing. This is about Microsoft Advertising, which is MS's equivalent to Google's ad service, and it's talking about how effective they are at reaching women.

Of course, there's also the insanely fucking stupid idea that women and mothers are somehow "Lesser" computer users, and something that caters to them somehow can't be a "Serious" computer, which is so blindingly retarded that it makes me want to check people for brain damage.

buddy....have you even looked at windows 8? it doesnt even use a window style navigation.
its using some backfuck spring board system like apple

you buy apps and they appear on your spring board and shit, its totally rediculus

they are trying to turn the computer into a cell phone

this has been microsofts idea all along, moving everyone away from personal computers and into the cloud with tablets and smart phones

and now they're trying to assimilate the phone, subversively into the desktop experience.

so a dumb user can go buy a windows "phone" then come home and use the exact same layout on the desktop and that will become their new taught skill set.

instead of having a real desktop with terminals and windows and such.
you have this cluttered board full of app shortcuts and microsoft store links
its a bunch of bull shit

this really isn't even about women. It's about the fact that microsoft is using windows as a new platform to push an agenda.

it's mostly directed at idiots who cant use a computer (including some women yes) and their trying to dumb down the average users mind.


Also dont even get me started on the fact that their doing this for monitization purposes.
it's been proven that if your credit card is linked to an apple or google play store. you will spend more money than you would spending cash
because you dont think of it as "real money"
its just an imaginary transaction.

so by integrating the store onto the springboard. people will pay microsoft more money for widgets and unnecessary shit.

This post was edited by Jagx on Nov 27 2012 11:35pm

That's nothing but a hot mess of a post.

Just say "Oh, I conflated Microsoft Advertising with Microsoft Windows, how stupid of me, I apologize for saying so much ridiculous shit."

It's not hard.

id rather use Win 3.11 then Win8

I'm using W8 and it's actually damn good. Ignoring the shitty start screen it's better than W7 in almost every aspect, from how it manages SSDs to boot time to general performance. Sure, ignoring the shitty start screen is hard, but getting start8 puts the real start menu back so you never have to see it. Wouldn't go back to W7 now, W8 with all the charms, invisible buttons, start screen and full screen apps removed is much slicker than W7 was.