After recently viewing a Mac TV add:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR2ONmS56DE&feature=related

My fiancee turned to me and said "ca m'énerve un peu" (french for "it's starting to be annoying"). Although I'm a fan of Mac ads, the message this time seemed to be over the top and downright annoying.

Mac suddenly became for me "try to look cool and annoying" rather then "be cool". I'm not a Mac owner but have been thinking of buying one for a new laptop, at this time I need a little more then the "Mac fashion" message which is really wearing out on me.

So here's the options:

• Microsoft: Builds very simple products but not so "stable" (agreed Mac). Experienced this just yesterday by "upgrading to XP Sp3" and then powerpoint 2007 was amazingly slow among other issues. Downgrading to SP2 fixed the problem(s).
  


• Mac: Builds products with a "fashion" twist, very stable (based on freebsd). The problem with a Mac for me is their 'message', can their products be used for productivity / business / everyday use in my case?
  


• Google: Well no OS but builds very simple products that just work. Their message, "google". What their brand represents is simplicity, open, easy to use, no fuss, no marketing, it just works, rock solid!
  

If someone is listening, can you please just build an OS that easy to use for everyday use and *that works*, and please shove your marketing down the !?%$È?&$*.

Hopefully Microsoft can fix their mess, or innovation with browsers (Google Chrome?) can pave the way for to a new era of computing.