Microsoft anti-Mac work was made on Mac

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Just as Microsoft and Crispin Porter + Bogusky tried to play
down the
wreck of the HMS Conquistador
by quickly launching their new “I’m a PC” spots, another
PR snafu has swept the blogosphere. Looking at data embedded in Microsoft’s
online photos from the campaign, a savvy Flickr user found that the images were
created using Adobe software on
a Macintosh
(versus, say, Microsoft Expression Studio on a PC). The incriminating data
was removed the next day, but the damage was done.




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