I just saw the new 93 second ad from Mcrosoft, featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld - Amusing, but pretty strange concept...
I understand that this is the first in a series of several ads they will be releasing.
What think?
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Jerry Seinfeld + Bill Gates Microsoft Commercial
Sep 9, 2008 @ 23:02
Howdy glocals
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Howdy glocals
I just saw the new 93 second ad from Mcrosoft, featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld - Amusing, but pretty strange concept...
I understand that this is the first in a series of several ads they will be releasing.
What think?
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Sep 9, 2008 @ 23:17
And, for comparison, one of the Mac ads:
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And, for comparison, one of the Mac ads:
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Sep 10, 2008 @ 03:31
You are making an evaluation of the new Microsoft ad. Cancel or Allow?
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You are making an evaluation of the new Microsoft ad. Cancel or Allow?
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EfeE, Sep 10, 2008 @ 03:31
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Sep 11, 2008 @ 00:00
The mac advert is a great example of something being funny because it's true. If my memory of windows serves, that's EXACTLY how it is. There's always something popping out of the screen or up from that little tray in the bottom right telling you something you don't care about or can't understand the origin of. Sure, it probably just requires "a bit of configuration" but that usually needs the damned install disks or a registry hack. (*Don't* get started on the registry.) Especially if you *cough, haven't paid for your copy of windows, if you get what I mean.
The windows advert is also pretty good. Abstract enough. Reasonably clever, probably. It's Seinfeld, in character. You're dressed.... and you're clean. Actually it's a bit like two Seinfelds in the same advert. Or at least it feels a bit like Seinfeld and another character from his TV show. (When the company actually makes an operating system capable of running the software I need, or for that matter any software I want, they'll be almost level.)
The windows advert is also pretty good. Abstract enough. Reasonably clever, probably. It's Seinfeld, in character. You're dressed.... and you're clean. Actually it's a bit like two Seinfelds in the same advert. Or at least it feels a bit like Seinfeld and another character from his TV show. (When the company actually makes an operating system capable of running the software I need, or for that matter any software I want, they'll be almost level.)
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The mac advert is a great example of something being funny because it's true. If my memory of windows serves, that's EXACTLY how it is. There's always something popping out of the screen or up from that little tray in the bottom right telling you something you don't care about or can't understand the origin of. Sure, it probably just requires "a bit of configuration" but that usually needs the damned install disks or a registry hack. (*Don't* get started on the registry.) Especially if you *cough, haven't paid for your copy of windows, if you get what I mean.
The windows advert is also pretty good. Abstract enough. Reasonably clever, probably. It's Seinfeld, in character. You're dressed.... and you're clean. Actually it's a bit like two Seinfelds in the same advert. Or at least it feels a bit like Seinfeld and another character from his TV show. (When the company actually makes an operating system capable of running the software I need, or for that matter any software I want, they'll be almost level.)
hayes, Sep 11, 2008 @ 00:00
The windows advert is also pretty good. Abstract enough. Reasonably clever, probably. It's Seinfeld, in character. You're dressed.... and you're clean. Actually it's a bit like two Seinfelds in the same advert. Or at least it feels a bit like Seinfeld and another character from his TV show. (When the company actually makes an operating system capable of running the software I need, or for that matter any software I want, they'll be almost level.)
hayes, Sep 11, 2008 @ 00:00
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Sep 16, 2008 @ 13:31
Here's another one:
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Sep 17, 2008 @ 11:00
I love it.
Very funny and down to earth.
Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks Hayes
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I love it.
Very funny and down to earth.
Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks Hayes
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Sep 18, 2008 @ 18:24
By John C Abell
Adding insult to injury? It isn't Gates that is being eased out. It's Seinfeld.
Blogs are aflutter with news that the ads are being pulled with a cover story that Microsoft intends to go into a "phase two" of the campaign, as Valleywag puts it.
Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign — a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether.
Truth is there was no middle ground with these two spots: there was the "Emperor has no clothes" camp and ... well, you get the idea. Looks like there's an opening in Redmond for a new tailor.
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It's Not Gold, Jerry
By John C Abell 
September 18, 2008 | 7:02:43 AM Wired Magazine
Looks like those Odd Couple ads starring the "comedy" duo of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld are going the way of Windows CE.
Adding insult to injury? It isn't Gates that is being eased out. It's Seinfeld.
Blogs are aflutter with news that the ads are being pulled with a cover story that Microsoft intends to go into a "phase two" of the campaign, as Valleywag puts it.
Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign — a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether.
Truth is there was no middle ground with these two spots: there was the "Emperor has no clothes" camp and ... well, you get the idea. Looks like there's an opening in Redmond for a new tailor.
Translator, Sep 18, 2008 @ 18:24
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Sep 18, 2008 @ 18:37
I am a HUGE Windows guy and my first impression was - this is the best they can come up with to compete against the Hi I'm a Mac campaign?? The ads HELP Apple by building the stereotype that Windows is just not hip. And hip sells nowadays!
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I am a HUGE Windows guy and my first impression was - this is the best they can come up with to compete against the Hi I'm a Mac campaign?? The ads HELP Apple by building the stereotype that Windows is just not hip. And hip sells nowadays!
smoore4, Sep 18, 2008 @ 18:37
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