Bill Gates's company had reached an agreement with a famous department store, Saks, for it showed a screen with a page of Twitter messages about your opinion of Internet users of Microsoft's holiday promotions. The messages constantly updated, had to carry the label '# holidaywindows'.
The problem has been that Mac fans have decided to participate in the promotion and filling the display of messages of support to the Big Apple. "I am very happy with Mac, I never switch to a PC for the money!" Said a user in one of the recent 'Tweets'. 'Hello, yes, I'd like a Mac for Christmas', highlights another in 'Twitter / holidaywindows', also open to the public on the web.
history of boycotts between the two companies goes back several years and the network is common to find support forums for both companies with periodic proposals to rival attacks. One of the most popular was the call for boycott of iTunes for their lack of compatibility with other computers.
However, the most notorious confrontation has taken place through advertising campaigns and, this time, users have been cut off. So, Apple has used sometimes to ridicule through metaphor to its competitor, such as in advertisements for the series 'Broken Promises'. In the scenes of this campaign, the character representing Microsoft back in time and reminds us that Microsoft has always promised to fix the errors in their versions of Windows 98 to XP and then the same as with XP to Vista or Windows Vista 7.
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