Microsoft's "I'm a PC" Ad Airs

[St Soichiro]

Meh

I guess it is MS's contention that it is OK to be a PC. All they (and Apple) want is that you identify with their product, and thus buy more.

I'd rather not be a PC or a Mac. They are both tools that I use to for me to be me, as defined by me. But at least the Apple ads are funny.

P.S. I am a big fan of Apple products, but at the end of the day their carefully constructed image is a marketing ploy and nothing else.

 

[crees!]

Apple's Response

Just watch. Apple comes back with an ad, "Look PC. First you copy our OS, and now our ads. Don't you ever learn."

 

[Syrus28]

Now, That's a great ad.

The "I'm a PC ad", while better than the Seinfeld ads, seemed pointless. Just what was the purpose? What did I learn? What am I supposed to do?

...Elevator music for the mind!

Did you miss the opening line??

"Im a PC, and I've been made into a stereotype", and then the commercial proceeds to show the vast, diverse amount of people who use PCs... I mean, it wasn't rocket science...

 

[dawnrazor]

nothing like a fresh creative idea to energise a brand................................................................... he said with tongue firmly in cheek

 

[breeze]

poor Pathetic Microsoft

Im a PC and I sell Fish????

I these adds are all as pathetic as this they will only accelerate the desertion of microsoft and as long as Balmer sticks around, Microsoft will only continue to self destruct - Apple with the best of ads couldn't be as detrimental to Microsoft as Microsoft is to itself....Fish?!! Fish stinks.......

 

[ztigerpaw]

I'll admit its not bad. Just doesn't address anything but tell every uses Windows. Which we already know.

 

[casloncastle]

Glad I didn't have any food in my mouth...

Person 1: (directed at Person 2) "You're a slow witted dullard"

(a few minutes pass)

Person 2: "No I'm not."

.... because it would be coming out of my nose right now. You summed it up superbly. Touché

 

[coupdetat]

I liked these ads a lot! These, and the Seinfeld ads, show that Microsoft (or, their ad agency) are thinking outside the box.

Hope Apple has an interesting retort!

 

[karlfranz]

Anybody else find this an ironic message of how Microsoft feels threatened by Apple's recent success?

 

[jazman]

It will be really interesting to see Apple's response. Do they stop as one poster suggested, or do they counter? If they run a successful counter, they could make viewers think about their (funny) ad while watching the PC ads. That would then cause Microsoft to shift yet again and stop their campaign as to not create confusion. Kind of like what Budweiser did with the counter "Referee" commercials against Miller. Remember, Miller had refs to come and flag people for drinking Bud and they would take their beer. Then Bud countered by showing the refs running and getting in a truck with the bud, drinking and hi-fiving as if it was a well orchestrated heist.

 

[KingYaba]

Oh, I like where these are going. I want to see a fight!

 

[Brendan.Porter]

"A life without walls"

Um...

A little off-message, don't you think, Microsoft?
Last I checked, Windows go into walls.

Can there be any windows in a life without walls?

...Apples grow outside.
So Microsoft wants you to leave your windowed walls behind and look at some Apples.
Right?

*backfired

 

[FJ218700]

seriously, Gates' screen presence has been incredible in these commercials.

I may have to finally try this Windows thing out.

Hope my Pro has enough RAM to handle it .

 

[gikku]

Life with firewalls

I was a PC and I moved on.

 

[HailToTheVictor]

"Windows ... Life Without Walls"


Ouch!

Kind of a subtle sting to Apple's slightly walled garden, or am I reading into that a bit much? Either way, it has some creativity to it in it's own way. Curious to see what Apple's response, or new ad craze will be!.

Apple's "PC Guy" holding up a window and saying, "Look, Windows without walls, drops the window and glass breaks." Mac says, "Yeah, without walls windows just crash..."

 

[cecil444]

Gates' Groceries

btw...was that Bill Gates carrying his own brown bagged groceries to his car...oh God, i have been wrong all this time, Bill is such a "down to earth regular guy"

Yeah c'mon now, are we really supposed to believe Bill Gates fetches his own groceries?! Who does he think he's fooling!?!

What a silly commercial. It starts out in a completely different place from where it finishes! More inconsistent bumbling from Microsoft.

 

[Randman]

"I'm Jerry.

I used to sell PCs, sort of."

 

[Thiopentone]

Anybody else find this an ironic message of how Microsoft feels threatened by Apple's recent success?

Er... he's scared because there's a shark beside his cage...

 

[gkarris]

What kinda PC? Vista or XP?

According to this:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/407885/

93% is PC....

 

[macfan881]

Guys wanna know the True Irony of this

http://www.computerworld.com/action...ArticleBasic&articleId=9115120&intsrc=hm_list

the whole commercias was made on a mac

Mac 1-pc 0

 

[FJ218700]

Um...

A little off-message, don't you think, Microsoft?
Last I checked, Windows go into walls.

Can there be any windows in a life without walls?

no walls at Gates' house

 

[geerlingguy]

I like the part where the guy is in a shark cage, and he has a sign that says...

"I'm a PC. And I'm scared."

And scared he should be! If this is all MS can do to go against Apple's commercials, PC should be afraid. Very afraid.

 

[Kalison]

The obvious next move for Apple would be another 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' ad with Hodgman and Long in which we find PC on a movie set with cameras and back drops and high paid celebrities shooting a commercial for Vista. The possible set ups and punch lines are endless but one that would be really great is if they could get either Kramer or Newman to appear in the ad.

Yes, they should discredit themselves with that racist, classless, hack.

Ever since he lost it on stage and went on a racist spree on a member of the audience, I have never respected that man.

 

[khunsanook]

I want to see the ad that says...

"I work for Microsoft's advertising company...and I'm a Mac"

Apple's website profiled Crispin, Porter and Bogusky about their novel use of Macs, but the link now redirects...wonder why

Here's the photoless cached version...

 

[lgoodlove]

good responce

this is a great response to the apple ads. Stop complaining just because Microsoft made it.

I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't show steve jobs going "the era of thinking for apple to win Microsoft has to lose" or something like that then show the PC people and say "then why are you stereotyping us?"