Microsoft Commercial with Jerry Seinfeld

[Ric0h]

Microsoft for the win!!

I felt it wass really good, how else can you advertise an operating system?

 

[KSoD]

I dont know. Maybe mention the name once? Maybe show what it can do? Maybe talk of some of the good points to it?

Talking about a shoe that runs tight and having a PC that will be edible in the future is not the way to go.

 

[carnageX]

I dont know. Maybe mention the name once? Maybe show what it can do? Maybe talk of some of the good points to it?

Talking about a shoe that runs tight and having a PC that will be edible in the future is not the way to go.

Must be why you're not in advertising, Mak .

 

[Harper]

Over all the ad is a big WTF Mate. However....

Releaselog | RLSLOG.net Microsoft explains weird Windows Vista ad

Microsoft explains weird Windows Vista ad
Did you “get” the new Microsoft commercial? Apparently, some people didn't, so Microsoft officials were calling reporters Friday to explain it. The Redwood, Wash., company started airing a commercial Thursday night in which comedian Jerry Seinfeld encounters Bill Gates shopping for real leather shoes at Shoe Circus! - “quality shoes at discount prices, why pay more?” - and helps Gates squeeze into a pair. As they walk out of the store together eating churros, Seinfeld asks Gates if he and the other great brains at Microsoft “are ever going to come out with something that will make our computers moist and chewy like cake so we can just eat them while we're working?” In response, Gates wiggles his bottom.

The ad barely mentions the word “Microsoft” and never mentions Windows. Nevertheless, the Microsoft officials who phoned reporters Friday said it is indeed a campaign to brand Windows, “the start of a conversation … easily the largest marketing campaign we've ever had.” Microsoft plans to hire 155 “gurus” by the end of the year to work in Circuit City, Best Buy and other retailers to help customers pick out PCs, said Eric Hollreiser of Microsoft - presumably the way Seinfeld helped Gates pick out shoes. Microsoft is also working with PC manufacturers to deliver “a compelling Windows experience” - to study how long it takes, for example, for Windows to start up and shut down. Mobile phones and Microsoft's Web site are also part of the plan. Hollreiser said Microsoft will do “a terrific job of delivering consumer information.”

 

[Poizen22]

ooh in that case this sounds great? anyone here feel like getting a nice job showing noobs how to buy a pc???

 

[KSoD]

I would be all for it. Windows Guru to battle those Mac Geeks!

 

[Harper]

ooh in that case this sounds great? anyone here feel like getting a nice job showing noobs how to buy a pc???

Ummmm..... no.

I think they would of done a better job if they only did a role reversal of Apple's I'm A Mac I'm A PC ads

 

[CrazeD]

^ Agreed.

That would be humorous.

 

[atomic tofu]

nah...MS is in top position...they don't have to stoop low and copy Apple in their little asinine ads. Apple can play the annoying mosquito/gnat...while MS is the target they try to suck blood from.

Good analogy I think...matches market share

 

[CntdwnToExtn]

i thought it was interesting. and after reading the marketing explanation it makes more sense now.
waiting for the next installment.