What Will Happen Now?

So, I was browsing Engadget today and stumbled across a link to a ZDNet article. Someone decided to take the time and perform a fairly thorough performance analysis between Windows 7, Vista, and XP. When I was running Windows 7 on my HP Pavilion ZD8000 it seemed to be running faster than XP did, but I really didn't take the time to perform any benchmarks. Well, the tests that ran showed that Windows 7 was faster in over 90 percent of the tasks that were performed. That's really good news for Windows. Normally, the next iteration of an operating system brings bigger system requirements, and it seems like Windows 7 will run on older machines. Oh, also, the link to the article is below.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3236&page=2

Now, getting to my point. What will happen to the "I'm a Mac" ads? At the beginning, they were accurate and pretty funny. After the first handful of ads, they just became flat wrong and slanderous. What is going to happen when Windows 7 works with your devices out of the box (because the driver model between Vista and 7  are essentially the same)? What is going to happen when 7 doesn't run slowly and crash all the time because hardware has had the time to catch up to the software (also the fact that Windows 7 seems to run better on worse hardware)?What is going to happen when people learn that Microsoft has actually flooded an untold amount of resources into developing a solid OS? What are they going to have to complain about? I would hope that the ads would return to the olden days, where the ads told you the facts about Macs (they can run Windows, integration with Mac ecosystem, etc); but it seems that they fired the rational advertising people and they are hell-bent on just spewing slime on every competitor. 

I hope that the ads continue, but take on their old tone (but in the back of my head, I can see new ads still bringing up Vista, even after 7 has launched). All the problems that they mentioned with Vista were really launch problems that occurred years ago and have been solved over the last few years in the first place. But, I would love to see the ads take on their old feel. Those ads lit a fire under Microsoft's ass and it looks like they are posed to release an awesome piece of software. See, competition is actually good for us.