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New Mac Ads

Have you seen the new Mac ads? They are available at http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/ if you haven't caught all of them yet.

My favorite is the "Restarting" ad, though the "Networking" is a close second. Here's what the Japanese portion of that means.

What interests me is not so much that these ads are a direct poke in the eye to Microsoft; it's the timing. U.S. tax season is over (IT activity falls off during tax season as companies are concentrating on accounting and taxes). More important, I think, is that the first previews of "Leopard" will be in early August at the WWDC (Apple's Developers convention). As far as anyone knows, Leopard itself is still on track for late 2006 or early 2007 release (while Vista may have slipped again).

Rumors of built-in virtualization and/or in-kernel Windows API in Leopard continue.. is Apple building up to a grand slam?.

Well, maybe. If the virtualization is true, I can't wait to see those ads. Maybe the Mac guy takes a miniature "PC guy" out of his pocket, sets him down. PC guy zooms up to full height - Mac guy says "Shh - he doesn't know he lives in my pocket" and then hands him a spreadsheet to open, looks at it over the PC guys shoulder, takes a copy for himself, miniaturizes PC guy again, and puts him back in his pocket?

Great fun.

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