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[Nvyseal]

As promised, Gates and Seinfeld made their television pair-up debut tonight, in an advertisement for something or other.

According to a leaked internal email from Redmond's senior vice president Bill Veghte, this first installment in what will be a series of commercials is meant to function as an "Icebreaker to reintroduce Microsoft to viewers in a consumer context." It seems that the company is following the path they've stamped out with their previous media burst, the Mojave Experiment, which appears to be less concerned with changing the product (Windows), and more concerned with changing consumers' perception of the product. In Veghte's words, "Telling our story means making significant investments to improve the way consumers experience Windows." So here's our question to you: is Microsoft on the right track here? Let us know by clicking on comments below

[Camaro]

stupid I thought, and the perseption they imply people are too stupid to know better

[m.oreilly]

well, you can only imagine what an apple ad w/jobs would be like...aimed at wealthy people that are too stupid to know better. father steve knows his audience...

[hog]

Uh...what? I really just watched this video? I shouldn't have...

[m.oreilly]

hog, on Sep 5 2008, 07:22 PM, said:

Uh...what? I really just watched this video? I shouldn't have...

???
young man, speak up!

[chriso_86]

Well.....I didn't really understand it but I thought it was funny either way.

[ShadowFox]

... WTF!?

[bluerip]

It's a good Idea , but I think they should use this concept for the new stuff and not try to smooze us over on the ... well to be nice, I wish they would "cut bait" and move on.

[m.oreilly]

bluerip, on Sep 7 2008, 08:44 PM, said:

It's a good Idea , but I think they should use this concept for the new stuff and not try to smooze us over on the ... well to be nice, I wish they would "cut bait" and move on.

hehe, i think this is what it is supposed to do. vista...is like Me to xp: better stuff going into the os, but implementation is off a bit...that said, if windows 7 is anything like server '08 (you decide which bits to add to the os), they will have a decent platform. server '08 is like xp x64 w/ all the good vista attributes...

[hog]

m.oreilly, on Sep 5 2008, 10:25 PM, said:

???
young man, speak up!

A bit like chriso, I did not understand much of it... Seemed to me like a bunch of 'nothing', like they just put Jerry Seinfeld there so people will like the ad and think it's funny just because he's there.

Or maybe I'm really just missing the point and it's actually good?

[m.oreilly]

hog, on Sep 7 2008, 09:11 PM, said:

A bit like chriso, I did not understand much of it... Seemed to me like a bunch of 'nothing', like they just put Jerry Seinfeld there so people will like the ad and think it's funny just because he's there.

Or maybe I'm really just missing the point and it's actually good?

well, if you put it that way...lol, it must be a minor segment in like a multiple installment thing. otherwise, i don't have a clue either...

[bluerip]

m.oreilly, on Sep 7 2008, 08:52 PM, said:

hehe, i think this is what it is supposed to do. vista...is like Me to xp: better stuff going into the os, but implementation is off a bit...that said, if windows 7 is anything like server '08 (you decide which bits to add to the os), they will have a decent platform. server '08 is like xp x64 w/ all the good vista attributes...

" server '08 is like xp x64 w/ all the good vista attributes..."

oooh now that sounds real good.

[brewin]

I feel like they were trying to make it like Seinfeld ("The show about nothing"), and missed horribly.

[hog]

brewin, on Sep 8 2008, 11:30 AM, said:

I feel like they were trying to make it like Seinfeld ("The show about nothing"), and missed horribly.

Lol, then I think I got the "point" after all!

[m.oreilly]

yeah, brew hit the nail, so to speak