Comments on: Life Takes Vista: is this real? http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Danny http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362950 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:51:32 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362950 James,

We got the same heads up from the same “reader”. Clearly there’s something more going on here. And it definitely has a PR feel to it. Here’s some thoughts I posted over at BrandsAmongMany on the issue: http://tinyurl.com/lornie

]]> By: Dave http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362951 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:27:43 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362951 Do some of these comments/photos even make sense? Oh, and the website design and whois information both say that it’s definitely not Microsoft :).

]]> By: Ben http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362952 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:36:32 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362952 Look what os they are using in this screnshot!

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs232&d=08435&f=look_677.jpg

]]> By: Eric S. Mueller http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362953 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:25:15 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362953 Weird. I genuinely like Windows Vista, but that advertising (if it’s not some kind of sick joke) makes me want to not like Vista.

]]> By: Matt Propst http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362954 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:45:21 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362954 decent idea if legit. awkward results.

]]> By: Mark http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362955 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:22:31 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362955 It looks like very clever domain squatting.

The give away is the ownership of 381,223 other domains by the same company.

The clever bit is that the site is relevant to the domain which makes it harder for the domain to be taken away from them

]]> By: romanca http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362956 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:49:24 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362956 i dont think this is microsoft campaing. the font they use is not sagoe.

]]> By: AllanCJ http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362957 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:56:19 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362957 The slogan seems to me too short. Here are some suggestions for extending it:

Life takes Vista
Vista takes the biscuit

Life takes Vista
Vista takes your life

Life takes Vista
Life is a long sentence

Actually, having turned off just about all of Vista’s special features I get on with it pretty well.

Allan

]]> By: Greg http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362958 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:44:06 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362958 Isn’t “Life Takes” part of Visa’s current campaign? Maybe this is some clever comment on advertising.

]]> By: Des http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362959 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:43:46 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362959 Over here they have rather strange “I am a PC” ads..

]]> By: James Kendrick http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362960 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:39:07 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362960 Microsoft better shut it down quickly then. It sure looks real if bizarre.

]]> By: Cruleworld http://gigaom.com/mobile/life-takes-vist/#comment-362961 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:36:05 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/life-takes-vist#comment-362961 It’s fake, the domain is not Microsoft’s domain.

http://whois.domaintools.com/lifetakesvista.com

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