Vista Ads in Second Life; Vista Can’t Run Second Life
From Tony Walsh, writer of the excellent Clickable Culture Blog:
Doomed Microsoft operating system “Vista” launched within the virtual world Second Life last month. Last week, Linden Lab informed consumers that its Second Life client software doesn’t work reliably with Vista. According to the company, a new (Vista-unfriendly) version client software is “just about ready”–after this release, Linden Lab will “start the process of ensuring that Second Life runs under Vista.”
The blog of the marketing guy behind the ’synergy’ is also a hoot. Not only is the irony of advertising Vista in a game that doesn’t work with it lost, but associating the OS with with a “gentleman’s club” is also apparently a good idea.
Closing the line is the Liquid Dreams club. An industrial strip joint with a load of Lords of Acid fans. They were amongst the first to literally beg to become a partner, and they’ve been arranging ad space with most of their partnering malls and clubs. These guys are overjoyed to be part of our little initiative.
Of course, maybe if Vista had more to do with strip clubs and less to do with incremental usability improvements there would have been more demand at launch.
