James,

We got the same heads up from the same “reader”. Clearly there’s something more going on here. And it definitely has a PR feel to it. Here’s some thoughts I posted over at BrandsAmongMany on the issue: http://tinyurl.com/lornie

Do some of these comments/photos even make sense? Oh, and the website design and whois information both say that it’s definitely not Microsoft .

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs232&d=08435&f=look_677.jpg

Weird. I genuinely like Windows Vista, but that advertising (if it’s not some kind of sick joke) makes me want to not like Vista.

decent idea if legit. awkward results.

It looks like very clever domain squatting.

The give away is the ownership of 381,223 other domains by the same company.

The clever bit is that the site is relevant to the domain which makes it harder for the domain to be taken away from them

i dont think this is microsoft campaing. the font they use is not sagoe.

The slogan seems to me too short. Here are some suggestions for extending it:

Life takes Vista
Vista takes the biscuit

Life takes Vista
Vista takes your life

Life takes Vista
Life is a long sentence

Actually, having turned off just about all of Vista’s special features I get on with it pretty well.

Allan

Isn’t “Life Takes” part of Visa’s current campaign? Maybe this is some clever comment on advertising.

Over here they have rather strange “I am a PC” ads..

Microsoft better shut it down quickly then. It sure looks real if bizarre.

It’s fake, the domain is not Microsoft’s domain.

http://whois.domaintools.com/lifetakesvista.com