Microsoft also thinks Macs are secure

Nice Photoshop job, Bill.

LOL =)) and microsoft workers use Apple =))) LOL///

or maybe it's just a creative studio mistake...

nevermind.. it's really LOL// =))

MS have used Apple notebooks for this kind of thing for many years. You would think they could find a beautiful non-apple notebooks, but instead they use the recognizable PB/MBP

Although to be fair - now they can use them legitimately.

i saw a picture of someone in germany using a macbook to present Vista

Bill already knows it for a long time:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=62...apple+computers

that picture was up ages ago and i thought hang on... no it will just be clone. they wouldn't use macs...would they? Ha. Seems I was wrong.

I just thought of an explanation. Follow this: If we assume MS has volume pricing discounts/deals/agreements with all the major PC notebook manufacturers, then maybe it came down to an issue of not picking favorites. As in, "Well, we can't show the Dell on our site, because HP, Sony, and Toshiba will not like that." However, then I thought it would be a perfect "product placement" for MS to ask the laptop vendors if they would like to be showcased on the "Security" page for a small fee...

In the end, maybe none of them wanted to pay up, and MS didn't want to show favortism, so they went with a notebook that absolutely would not be a partner in any venture (mainly the venture of offering XP as the main OS on their products).

Or my entire analysis could come down to some chump at some prestigious marketing firm who just didn't friggin use his head, and everyone had a good laugh at his expense... well, eveyone except MS.

On a side note, I find it funny that MS can claim the "Click and I'm Clean" {censored}. I routinely find malware/viruses that MS's craptastic anti-malware software doesn't remove because the malware was written to disable it at the kernel level. Fun! One click and you're screwed and will probably end up reloading Windows. I'm actually at the point where when someone tells me they have X amount of spyware, and it sounds serious enough, I really need to weigh the fact that I could spent 6 hours jacking around with removing the mal/spy/ad-ware just to find out it's never *really* fully clean, or I could reload windows on a fresh install and reload their programs in under 2 hours. The 6 hours is certainly nice for hourly fees, but the reload is much nicer for flat fees, and is, IMO, always more effective. So, in conclusion, I find the entire page funny, especially given that they even found the need to show a laptop that's not even a "native" Windows machine.

What it really comes down to is some overworked Graphic Designer who was told to come up with a banner for the page in less than 15 minutes.. Did a photo search, found one and was done.. Being a graphic artist myself, when you get put under the pressure that some marketing people put you thru we just don't give a f*ck and just throw it together without even thinking.

I suppose Microsoft needed a beautiful computer to compensate for an ugly operating system.