The Mike Abundo Effect

TrueNuff Entertainment continues its hilarious series of Mac ad spoofs. In this skit, Mac pooh-poohs PC’s Vista widget bling — and gets pooh-poohed in return, on something even more basic.

Apparently, Dell customers would prefer the shovel.

See, this is what happens when you get lazy, delay your product, and lose your OS monopoly in a three-way battle with Linux and OS X. You start going nuts again.

Ballmer admitted to financial analysts that the predictions for Vista had proved ‘overly optimistic’ and he blamed the pirates in China, India, Brazil, Russia and other emerging markets.

He said his final solution would be to increase the intensity Windows Genuine Advantage as part of an effort to squeeze more revenue from developing nations.

Hey, Steve-o, here’s a hint: instead of making your DRM even more obtrusive to legitimate users, how about you actually give people really good reasons to give you wads and wads of their money? Even anime schoolgirls know how that works.