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.”
Source: SF Gate
I did’nt have a freeking clue what it was…
Other than the fact the BG is even more of a geek than I thought…
“Microsoft” - A nickname for Mr. Gates’ penis! LOL! LMFAO! ;P
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I think it has something to do with Windows 7..
That is what eventualy happens to all monopolys (AT&T, state monopolys,…).
Wiggles his bottom? That’s because Windows is ass LOL.
And Bill Gates voice never mutated properly. Nerd of all Nerds.
MS FTW!
Hopefully Window 7 with be stable/fit Vista and not as odd as this commercial!
Good Luck
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The message is..
“YOU THOUGHT THIS ADVERT WAS CRAP ? YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET!”
lol what a lame ad, must have been just advertised in america, not on NZ tv.
Oh god, CAN NOT UNSEE GATES’ WIGGLING ASS
let the rant commence, most of which are posted with a microsoft OS ofc, not that that matters..
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I cant believe this MS refuses to admits theirs ANYTHING wrong with their Vista OS. They blame poor sales on their customers stupidity!! Saying that people just dont know how good Vista is and most people go by word of mouth and dont even try it. Well i tried it and i couldnt stand it, its far too glitz and glam for what i want and i like getting better performance from my pc.
Marketing 101: If you need to PHONE PEOPLE UP and EXPLAIN how your ad relates to your product, your ad has failed
Marketing 102: All publicity is good publicity. Yes the ads crap,but theres more people talking about it because its so crap .Marketing genius .
Even for american standards this commercial is pretty lame. Which says a lot :p
It is almost like they dont want people to use Vista
I aint certainly not gonna try Vista out if i see this ad :s
I had XP Pro on my last rig, my new rig came with Vista and other than Crysis there isn’t a game that I cannot run at max settings and most while downloading at the same time. Its different and it takes a while to get used to. (over 6 months crashed twice but not Vistas fault)
I really appreciate the way Microsoft keeps on helping us remember that even though you might have all the money in the world, this still doesn’t automatically mean everything you do will be cool, let alone high quality. Keep up the bad acting Bill!
i seen this on tv the other day, aside from the fact that bill gates was in it, i really didnt have a clue what was being advertised until the end when they showed the windows logo, perhaps they should have left Gates out of it and used Jerry Seinfield and Michael Richards and made it a commercial about “nothing”….would certainly have been more entertaining.
I don’t get it…
I’m with ththgt.. even after the explanation.. I still don’t get it.
This ad is as crystal clear as the Windows error messages.
Yeah, stupid ad, funny though how he has his old police mugshot on his card.
Whats the ad suppose to mean? That Microsoft has to much money on its hands… I mean 1 minute and 30 seconds of boringness. Oh yeah it was an ad for Vista..I get it now.
I haven’t seen the commercial, but from reading the description, the message I’d get from it is that Gates (and by extension, Microsoft) doesn’t have a clue what their doing and that the average person knows how to make better choices than them.
Microsoft is in Redmond. There is no actual Redwood, Washington. I thought everyone knew that. Redmond, not Redwood.
Actually, the message is:
“See? We can make crappy ads too!”
where the hell is “Redwood”
Microsoft is in Redmond, actually on the cusp of the Overlake district in Bellevue.
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“Marketing 102: All publicity is good publicity. Yes the ads crap,but theres more people talking about it because its so crap .Marketing genius .”
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#19 - You can’t have Micheal Richards in an ad, unless you want to be known as racists. A sad but real fact. Even though he only screwed up once, he screwed up badly so nobody will risk touching him. Even Seinfeld cut him loose after his “no really Mike’s a great guy” news confrence 2 days after the incident.
The ad can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM_72QXCtN4
As the link in the article no longer works…
I’m a window’s man myself, any more advert’s like this and ill be switching to apple!
Actually Bill was telling the workd to kiss his arse because no matter the crappy product microsoft puts out, fan boys, midgets, sienfield, turtle wangs, and of coarse idiots will buy while he gets closer to owning mars. Hell he probably pirates his own stuff just to save money. What a World. I will stop talking now before my xp gets blacklisted I Love You Bill
stop which hunt…
MS maked this campaign couse they are sick and tired of macs ads where PC guy behave like Idiot.
And as much as i hate MS i Hate apple more for that insulting adds…
and ms commericial was funny, for that picture on bills ID it deserve 9/10 points
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It’s all ridiculous to me.
The commercial didn’t make sense…nor did the explanation…