Can you say disturbing?
Microsoft's new commercial showing Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld in a shoe shop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afR5J7eskno
Who does their ads? "the wiggle" is going to give me nightmares...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afR5J7eskno
Who does their ads? "the wiggle" is going to give me nightmares...
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royal
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So I just finished watching it on youtube. The second I close youtube, the commercial starts on tv. What a horrible commercial.“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.” - Harry F. Banks -
Slowhand
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sliptmickey
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If you look in the background, we can see the staple of Microsoft.....BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!!
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Megadeth4168
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What are they hoping to accomplish with this ad? Are they selling shoes now? -
jbrown414
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Well, my day is shot now. I'm going to find a corner and get in the fetal position. -
cbigbrick
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They played that at halftime for the Redskins-Giants game. I was fine with it until the wiggle.
GrossAnd in conclusion your point was.....???
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rbutturini
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That made me want to add about 5 more Linux distributions to my computer.
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LarryDaMan
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sliptmickey wrote:
If you look in the background, we can see the staple of Microsoft.....BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!!
It's good to know something's never really change.[/img]
Reminds me a little of Austin Powers... shagadelic! -
bertieb
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WTF
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astorrs
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The New Microsoft-Seinfeld Ads…
…are incredibly stupid. What in the world does watching Jerry Seinfeld help Bill Gates find a pair of shoes have to do with Windows? If Microsoft thinks that Jerry and Bill talking about churros and making Windows delicious is going to help improve Windows’ tarnished image, I’d say they need to fire the ad agency and try again.
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/09/05/the-new-microsoft-seinfeld-ads/ -
dynamik
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I wonder if this particular ad is going to be part of a series or something. Maybe this one was more of an introduction and things will be fleshed out more with subsequent ads. Either way, this one was incredibly weak on its own. -
astorrs
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Yeah Eileen Brown says there is more coming... http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2008/09/05/the-new-microsoft-commercial-bill-gates-and-jerry-seinfeld.aspxdynamik wrote:I wonder if this particular ad is going to be part of a series or something. Maybe this one was more of an introduction and things will be fleshed out more with subsequent ads. Either way, this one was incredibly weak on its own.
That's unfortunate...
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jbrown414
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I remember the video he had about what he was going to do on his last day.
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=43d00397-d251-448f-87c0-6574ef77729c -
jryantech
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I actually loved it!
if your reading this and you work at microsoft, get me a job!
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Vogon Poet
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I liked it. Very amusing.
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mrhaun03
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The photos look like he's trying to seduce me. I don't know if i should be scared or turned on Working on Linux+
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jryantech
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mrhaun03 wrote:The photos look like he's trying to seduce me. I don't know if i should be scared or turned on
It's what happens when you don't sleep for 2 weeks and drink straight liquor."It's Microsoft versus mankind with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
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dynamik
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jryantech wrote:mrhaun03 wrote:The photos look like he's trying to seduce me. I don't know if i should be scared or turned on
It's what happens when you don't sleep for 2 weeks and drink straight liquor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBrshcS3SXs (Possibly NSFW) -
jbrown414
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I don't get it. I work for a fairly small company and they block youtube yet my wife works for one of the biggest financial institutes in a call center yet she can access youtube. Something is not right.
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Kaminsky
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jbrown414 wrote:I don't get it. I work for a fairly small company and they block youtube yet my wife works for one of the biggest financial institutes in a call center yet she can access youtube. Something is not right.
Maturity of your managers and how much bandwidth they can afford !Kam. -
Slowhand
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jbrown414 wrote:I remember the video he had about what he was going to do on his last day.
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=43d00397-d251-448f-87c0-6574ef77729c
Didn't you know? All heads of large organizations don't know what to do with themselves when they leave their jobs.
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snadam
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LarryDaMan wrote:sliptmickey wrote:
If you look in the background, we can see the staple of Microsoft.....BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!!
It's good to know something's never really change.[/img]
Reminds me a little of Austin Powers... shagadelic!
personally I thought it was funny, not witty funny, just funny. The sheer fact that they have Bill Gates in common situations is funny (maybe its just me, I dont know). I thought that Sienfeld was not that funny in the commercial but Im looking forward to what else they produce. HELL ITS BETTER THAN MOST TECH COMMERCIALS! Ill take this over PC vs MAC; its just getting old.
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dynamik
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There was a comment on Digg like that. Talking about how they came off as normal people instead of pretentious d-bags (like the Apple guy)
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dtlokee
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Did you notice the picture on his shoe club membership card is his mugshot from when he was arrested back in the 1970's?The only easy day was yesterday!
