For the last year I have been using a Dell M1530 XPS laptop as my main computer, meanwhile all around me my other friends have been converting to the dark side (Apple ). Above is a new promo video for windows 7 from Dell (via friend and legend Steve Clayton)

Here are a few reasons why I’m happy to stay a PC guy:

• As a chap that helps run an education company for online marketing, I feel it’s helpful in numerous ways to use the same brand of operating system that over 90% of the people that we teach use themselves.
• Windows 7 has been a pleasure to use for the last 4-5 months even in release candidate version. It’s much faster than Vista and in my experience XP, and even some friends Mac’s, its easy to use, visually nice, and works with all my numerous random bits of software.
• Microsoft have now finally released a fantastic free antivirus software suite called “Microsoft Security Essentials”. Have been using it now for a few months and its the least intrusive (both notification wise and processing power wise)  anti virus software I have used.
• Great software, mostly free such as Windows Live Writer (for blogging), Photosynth, Silverlight, Microsoft Tags, and Live Mesh, inspire me and give me great hope for an even brighter future for the company.

Feel free to disagree but I’m one happy PC.

This is the first in a line of soon to be released ads for Windows 7 by everyone’s favourite ad agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky. Windows 7 is due for release on October 22nd and the above spot is due to air in the USA later tonight during CW‘s prime-time premiere of "Vampire Diaries”. Windows 7 has already been received very well by established on and off line media outlets. Personally I have been using it for about 4 months on my main laptop. I think they have made giant leaps forward with this new and improved OS. It boots fast, looks great, is very easy to use, and you don’t need a hugely powerful processor and lots of RAM to make it run well (I tried it on a 3 year old laptop and it worked great). For more details on Windows 7 click here. If you’re currently running Vista or XP I highly recommend the upgrade, you will love it, promise. (ad spotted via)

Love this spot that was aired on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Fans of the show were surprised when they realized that there would be an extra two minutes of their favourite show. The two minutes was brought to them by the new decision engine Bing. Bing breaks through search overload so you can get more of what you want. Like The Daily Show. Great work by Microsoft‘s new agency JWT New York p.s. Microsoft thank you for Windows 7, have been using it for a couple of months and has given me no headaches, works fast, super easy to use and looks fantastic, is even making some of my Mac friends jealous! congrats guys. To read about great Microsoft innovation in plain English check out Steve Claytons blog, and if you pre-order Windows 7 now you can get it half price !