Seinfeld ads canned... no laughter

I find it funny that you just have to bash Microsoft for anything they do...

It is an Ad about nothing, like the original sienfeld show.
It has its elegance if you step outside your obvious hate of MS.
But then again you would have to have some intelligence to see this something you apprently lack.

As for the Mac ads, they are so full of FUD and outright missinformation they have been suspended as well. 

Why don't you report on something usefull like the Privacy violating Google... or would that be too much of a stretch?

i'd rather watch a dog eat some vomit

No one really should have assumed that the commercials would be a counter to the Apple vs PC, without creating a duplicate of the original with switched persona's.

I think the best idea is to have a variety of people from a vast variety of ages talk about why they like Vista. They might talk about:

-Software compatibility.
-Hardware compatibility
-Gaming
Ease of use:
- Making Vista Movies
- Editing and organizing photos
- Making school reports
- etc.

Perhaps the FIRST step in getting in-touch with customers is to LISTEN TO THEM.

What do you multi-millionaire executive halfwits think about that?

Put the power back in the user's hands.

It's practically revolutionary!

Have two look alikes for the PC and the Mac and then have the PC guy morph into the guy from Gears of War or Halo or a Big Daddy from BioShock and go over and slap down the Mac guy. Everybody wants to see the Mac guy get a beat down.


I saw this ad and although it was kinda cool to see the richest guy on earth, the initial interest wore out in exactly 1.0314 seconds. What followed was an urgent desire for the commercial to just end. Alas, it was about a minute of suffering, finished off with Bill wagging his ass for the whole world to see. How self-deprecating.

I found the first commercial to be quite funny and I understood that it's a teaser. But the second commercial should not have been a teaser. The second commercial should have given us more meat and potatoes of Vista. I like the style of humor and I think Bill is quite funny too. These commercials don't upset me like others are. I guess that I realize what these commercials are intended for, which is the push of Vista. And I'm not a Vista hater either. I use XP and Vista and I like both. Too bad MS squashed the commercials though.
Thanks and see you out there,
Loki Sunrider

There are other companies that do ads similar to these. For example, Head On, all that commercial says is the name of the product, and how you use the product, it doesn't tell you what the product is for. The MS ads at least mention windows.com at the end, so I don't see much difference, look how long Head On ads have been around.

I am taking a bath on this already (!).
I bought into the whole mustard wine deal. Now I'm kind of a moutarde de Dijon, but only since the crème de cassis. So this is a Turkish Bath. Ok.
"...teaser campaign" crikey, what is that Cockney Rhyming Slang?
Forget Madison Avenue
Hire the INQUIRER:
The cheesy non-stop redtop ragtimes horn in on the sides pitting knee jerks, stitches and pensioners all alike. Oh. and there's tech stuff too. All Voletile markets you can muster. A fair bit of pressure, one more bit of doom and gloom is so much movement you have to be careful not to end up with a bad smell of fear or a pig's ear. I mean if you put a ring on that, or lipstick as well, the sow of it is that the guvs tuck in as much and more of all I can be bartered to grow, breed, shoot or steal, beg or borrow. Woe. Pandemonium. The mood is bad, bad, bad out there, or my name is not... I think I'll have a snort.

I think they should run them side by side and not cancel one, I'm still laughing at the "i got so much cars I'm stuck in my own traffic" from seinfeld, you gotta admit, thats funny. 

I do believe it was part of the plan, just not this quick, this is what they should have started out with then bring in the Gates-Seinfeld in between those. 

I've thought over and over, that Microsoft should focus more on what they offer, not bash the Apple commercials but raise the bar and show what sets Windows apart from Apple, not just show 2 guys in front of a white background talking, but go out in the "wild" and show what people out there actually do with the Win-OS. In my head I call it "The Windows Experience" with tag lines like "share the experience", "come join the fun", "actually get work done", and "WOW" and "who's yow daddy?" and some crazy ones I still don't have a tag line for, lol.

I thought the Ad's were fun but if Microsoft wants to get back in touch with its customers it'll need better pricing, much improved EULA’s, more freebees and absolutely no bloatware.

The ads were indeed embarrassing. Good move from MS here to recognize that and change their mind.

If MS would sell a version without the DRM, their spyware and a friendlier EULA that doesn't give them full/unlimited access rights to my PC. Call it Vista Enthusiast Edition and sell it to all of us enthusiasts out there that actually know enough about the OS to not want all of that extra crap in there. 

Those 3 things are the primary reasons I refuse to "upgrade" to Vista from my XP Pro. The DRM and spyware are unnecessary resource hogs (bloat) that are the main force driving away most of the enthusiast market. 

I wonder if MS still considers it a good deal they made with Hollywood. The $30 million bribe they received for the DRM infestation of Vista has been perhaps the single largest cause of rebellion against Vista amongst consumers.

when there's money to burn. Didn't think it could work when the Seinfeld campaign was announced. Can't believe how utterly underwhelming it turned out. What would have been fun would have been to make fun of the typically self-satisfied Apple customer and especially the Emaciated One himself who is Ultie responsible for the PC bashing spots. Then it would have interesting to see how Apple responded. Eventually, it might have escalated to thermonuclear war (figuratively).

"It has its elegance if you step outside your obvious hate of MS.
But then again you would have to have some intelligence to see this something you apprently lack. "

What is this, the emperor's new clothes?
Only stupid people don't get it? 

Sorry but the emperor is starkers. Elegance? About as elegant as a fart in a crowed elevator.

I thought the add was pretty funny. I actually dual boot and use Vista and Ubuntu so I'm pretty much neutral when it comes to the crunch...however I was looking through some old Apple adds on youtube...NOW THEY WERE FUNNY, little comments like ' It does more, it costs you less?!! OHH THE iRONY!!!

"Not you". I assume you're a younger fellow...what you're not realizing is that Seinfeld wasn't actually a show about "nothing". It was a show that often focused on the trivial however. At it's best, the trivial actually showed biting insight into human nature or society. At lesser the times, the show did focus on trivial (note FOCUS) matters but inserted enough jokes and humour to make it work. What it was NOT is anything like the horrific MS adds. 

I did feel however, that it was a perfect synopsis of MS....a pale imitation of other products, lacking in style and grace, and not working well.

If they really wanted our buisness they would of 

A. tried to fix vista so it doesn't have the issues it has.

and

B. Given away lots of free copies to their most vicious critics.

They could of cut their costs in 1/2 and actually had an impact but this is microsoft we are talking about.

They don't know what the $#!t They are doing.