anyone want a microPod? didn't think so.

According to today's news, Bill Gates has predicted that the iPod won't last.

That's nice. Have you seen Microsoft's latest ads? Each pictures an office worker with his head replaced by a dinosaur head. Below each figure is some text to the effect of "don't be a dinosaur, upgrade to the latest Microsoft Office."

Doesn't that sound like some kind of poster campaign for third grade class president? Wait, except that third graders think dinosaurs are cool, and some of them probably know better than to insult their customers in their ad campaigns.

Hey look, iPod ads are sexy. iPods themselves are sexy. Microsoft Office ads look like something from "The Office." If David Brent ran an advertising firm, you'd get "don't be a dinosaur!"

Update: Click here for an online version of this ad -- a long, dorky Flash intro followed by circa 1997 web design and officeworkers with dinosaur heads. Oh, the humanity.