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Microsoft's First Seinfeld Ad Airs: Shoe Circus
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Wow, that was incredibly bad. Micro$oft has 90 quadrillion dollars and they can't hire someone to make them a decent add?
I can just picture the dopes at the MS board meeting that thought that add was a real knee slapper.
Maybe they hired the same folks that put on the republiscum convention. Great stuff...
I can just picture the dopes at the MS board meeting that thought that add was a real knee slapper.
Maybe they hired the same folks that put on the republiscum convention. Great stuff...
That really did not seem like a broadcast ad. It seemed more like a video shot quickly for a staff conf or dev meet. If it does air, I guess it is supposed to soften the MS image. The problem is it doesn't. It doesn't present another image. It doesn't present anything at all. It is really, a commercial about nothing with the star from a show about nothing, who happened to own Macs when doing the show. meh
and cake computers
if windows 7 makes me cake im so switching, unless snow leopard can come up with a wider multitude of tasty baked confections
There is a saying in advertising that one-half of every advertising budget is a complete waste of money. The only problem is, you don't know which half is wasted.
Tonight I think I saw which half.
Tonight I think I saw which half.
Interesting ad. Not sure if it will have its intended effect (it is trying to revitalize their image, not sell anything...which is a weird move but whatever). At least it isn't ms telling their customers they're idiots this time.
Stupid
I don't get it...
It kinda reminds me of the Yao Ming, Yogi Berra Commercial. But that commercial kinda made since. MS could never come up with a 1984 ad.
I don't get it...
It kinda reminds me of the Yao Ming, Yogi Berra Commercial. But that commercial kinda made since. MS could never come up with a 1984 ad.
Yeah . . . if MS really wants to throw $$$ away, they can just email me and i can tell them where to send me a check.
Oh wait, isn't there some sort new technology they are working on that will track emails and they will send you like $10,348.29 if you forward it? Yeah, I think so. I should totally forward that to all of my friends.
Oh wait, isn't there some sort new technology they are working on that will track emails and they will send you like $10,348.29 if you forward it? Yeah, I think so. I should totally forward that to all of my friends.
i'd say its definitely the first in a long series, its for branding not for quick sales. they're trying to revamp the image, the brand, not sell the latest version of windows. and how do you do that? you get seinfeld to come do your spots and make you look cool instead of inept.
I'd want my money back if I paid for it.
Although, when you think about it, it does sum up the Windows experience. Mundane, trial error, something you have to do from time to time, and kinda white trash.
Although, when you think about it, it does sum up the Windows experience. Mundane, trial error, something you have to do from time to time, and kinda white trash.
I caught it on the air, was watching stuff blow up on Discovery, and my girlfriend was like "wtf is Bill Gates doing with Seinfeld?".
I watched the commercial, and had I not noticed the windows logo at the end, I wouldn't have known it was a windows commercial.
I've seen it three times tonight, and I totally don't get the commercial. I also don't find it funny.
It was just.... weird.
When I saw it come on, I actually stopped whatever I was doing and watched it (since I had first read about them here on macrumors). Then, I sat there kind of.. dumbfounded.
In my opinion, Bill seemed awkward-- and Jerry--- well I liked Seinfeld and all, but these days seeing him and his comedy is like a trip back to the 90s as someone else said.
I guess I kind of realized that they were trying to soften Microsoft's image-- but the whole idea of showing Bill Gates in a normal shoe store being a normal guy is a little too hard for me to suspend reality and consider that this is the same dude that lives in an almost 50k square foot house which cost around some 100 million dollars to just build.
So... when I thought of it in that way--- I felt more conned than anything else.
Poor Bill- I am sure he must be a nice guy and all, but he reminds me of those folks who are not really the true natural leaders, but they try ever so hard to be liked, lead, and innovative.
When I saw it come on, I actually stopped whatever I was doing and watched it (since I had first read about them here on macrumors). Then, I sat there kind of.. dumbfounded.
In my opinion, Bill seemed awkward-- and Jerry--- well I liked Seinfeld and all, but these days seeing him and his comedy is like a trip back to the 90s as someone else said.
I guess I kind of realized that they were trying to soften Microsoft's image-- but the whole idea of showing Bill Gates in a normal shoe store being a normal guy is a little too hard for me to suspend reality and consider that this is the same dude that lives in an almost 50k square foot house which cost around some 100 million dollars to just build.
So... when I thought of it in that way--- I felt more conned than anything else.
Poor Bill- I am sure he must be a nice guy and all, but he reminds me of those folks who are not really the true natural leaders, but they try ever so hard to be liked, lead, and innovative.