Admiring The View
Show Me The Money
The Money Programme is not one of my usual Friday night stops on my channel hopping extravaganza. However, last week I got caught up in the “Wow” that was their documentary, Coming To Your Screen: Windows Vista, where we were treated to an insider’s view of the workings of Microsoft UK as they prepared themselves for the release of their latest and greatest operating system. Not so much a warts-and-all expose, more of a tepid air-brushing of life in a real office that left me feeling like I’d just seen a 30-minute, BBC advert for Bill Gates’s empire. I was half expecting people to stat talking about “Blue sky thinking” and “shifting paradigms” but we were spared the insincerity. The odd thing is, the Other Viewer and I made a spur of the moment decision the very next day to go and buy a new PC with a brand spanking new version of Windows Vista Home Premium pre-installed. Subliminal advertising is alive and well and living on BBC2*
* = Having said that, it is still a joy to work with.
Tags: bbc2, Bill-Gates, General, Home-Premium, Money-Programme, PC, Vista, Windows
