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Microsoft Enlists Jerry Seinfeld in Ad War Against Apple

I thought it was great. Sure, its not terrific marketing, but it made me smile.

And if you guys are complaining about no hardcore vista pounding, thats exactly what these ads are trying to avoid. It gets you talking about the ad and thus talking about vista. We're doing it.
 
I was prepared to be "wowed" by this ad, but really, that was disappointing. It was cute, but looking past it's (scant) entertainment value, I don't see how this will reinvigorate Microsoft. I mean, even the Mojave commercials at least told you what they were selling.

In short: the Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld show? I'm sold. Windows Vista? Not so much.
 
11800506 said:
I thought that commercial was quite stupid... and not funny at all. Maybe I just didn't get the jokes?
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Agreed. Apologies for posting a picture, but I think it applies quite nicely...
 

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Rivix said:
I thought it was great. Sure, its not terrific marketing, but it made me smile.

And if you guys are complaining about no hardcore vista pounding, thats exactly what these ads are trying to avoid. It gets you talking about the ad and thus talking about vista. We're doing it.
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actually it gets us talking about how stupid the ad is. period.

few folks are going to actually think about Vista when seeing that ad. and those that do think about it aren't going to be thinking nicely. more like "with that kind of stupid ad I am really glad I don't have Vista, or Windows at all"
 
Two incredibly wealthy, self actualized, older gents talking nonsense. Where's my copy of Vista !?! Can a Mac run Vista only and still keep the latest firmware? A hip dude's gotta know!
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I thought it was an Odd add, but reminiscent of the show Seinfeld, about nothing.

It was quirky, but that's it.


In any event, I hate those stupid apple commercials anyway. They come off so pretentious and act as if Vista is some garbage OS like WinME.

I honestly hate the bad rep Vista gets. I have both Leopard and Vista, and I like them both for what they are.
 
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I thought this was interesting from the original post:

"We've got a pretty noisy competitor out there," Brooks said of Apple whose "I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC," commercials criticize Windows Vista. "You know it. I know it. It's caused some impact. We're going to start countering it. They tell us it's the iWay or the highway. We think that's a sad message. Software out there is made to be compatible with your whole life."

Wasn't it Micorsoft who tried to eliminate all competitors (including Apple) to obtain the highest (monopolized) marketshare of software development?
 
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