GATES: Shoes go on your feet.
SEINFELD: They sure do.
Sienfeld’s ‘’humor’’ is as bad as Bret Farr’s playing ability tonight
Maybe they should have spent the $300 mill on writing some new workable code. Lean, fast, non crashable code. Real software, not crapware or BSOD baloneyware
Tonight’s “I Am PC” commercial sucks even more. Makes no sense except to make we want a MAC.
MS should put them right back on the air.
NEVER let idiots in the tech media get an inch. They hate Microsoft and would have been critical of whatever ad they put on TV.
Seinfeld is worth $600 million. Gates is worth $80 billion. What on EARTH can either of these I’ve Got Mine weenies say to the rest of us that we’d give a crap about?
IIRC, when they approached The Rolling Stones about using "Start Me Up" for their ad campaign, The Stones just arbitrarily said $13 million.
"Done."
So how much do you want to do three ads that will add up to one segment of one episode of "Seinfeld?"
"How about ten million dollars? It's a nice round number. And I won't have to keep cashing all these small Japanese checks?"< /seinfeld impersonation>
"Done."
Seinfeld is a double agent working for Apple. he proves what Apple fans said all this time: that pc users are dorks
GATES: Shoes go on your feet.
SEINFELD: They sure do.
I must be in a minority. I sorted of liked the commercials. They are not great “Super Bowl” type commercials but they were OK.
It did stink. I never got the connection except here were two very rich men shopping discount. HA HA not
Gee, wonder why? ;-) You would think that a computer genius and, well, the other guy, would have dumped these commercials from the get go. Who knew. Mayhap Gates is starting to suffer from early onset Alzheimer’s?
I use Vista on both of my machines and do not want to go back to XP.
If a commercial can be seen as the public image of a product, these commercials say absolutely awful things about Microsoft.
Those commercials Apple makes with the slightly chubby guy in glasses as a PC and a supposedly hip kid as a Mac were bad enough. I thought the Mac kid was a weasel and didn't strike me as hip or cool the way t.v. critics asserted, but the Microsoft commercials make the dumb Apple commercials look decent in comparison.
I was amazed these commercials ever got made in the first place.
Imagine the pitch:
Ad Agency Guy: “OK, Bill. Here’s the thing. Windows isn’t hip any more. It isn’t new, it isn’t WOW, it isn’t fresh. We need to bring the PC and Windows into the 21st century, man.”
Bill Gates: “Well, gee. OK, what do you suggest that would make us happening and stuff?”
Ad Agency Guy: “We need a hip, new spokesman. Those MAC folks got the Mr. MAC and Mr. PC... it’s hip it’s WOW, it’s now, baby.”
Bill Gates: “OK, then who would be a hip new spokesman for us?”
Ad Agency Guy: “I got just the guy. He’s way up there, ya know. All the kids love him.”
Bill Gates: “Yeah? Well, who?”
Ad Agency Guy: “Ready?”
Bill Gates: “Yeah, tell me already.”
Ad Agency Guy: “OK, picture this.... JERRY SEINFELD!”
Bill Gates: “Hey, I love that Seinfeld show of his... but didn’t that go off the air in the 90’s? How is he hip and fresh?”
Ad Agency Guy: “Did it? No, he is definitely a hip guy. Come on! Remember Kramer? Hilarious stuff.”
Bill Gates: “Um, didn’t that Kramer guy get in some scrape where he was calling Jews names?”
Ad Agency Guy: “Fageddabout Kramer. We’ve got SEINFELD!”
Bill Gates: “Well, OK. If you’re sure he’s hip?”
Ad Agency Guy: “Oh, yeah. Waaaaay hip. Count on it.”
Actually I enjoyed the advert.
It was refreshing to see Gates in a context other than the "world's richest man."
Methinks that the intended message was just waaaaay too subtle for the MAC crowd.
Not enough tats and piercings, I suppose...
I thought the commercial was funny as Hell.
You know, Jerry has millions of dollars. He could go to Bosley Hair Restoration and they could make his hair look as full as it used to be. It would cost him hardly anything, relatively speaking.
Hell, they might do it for free if he did an ad for them.
hey I have an idea... get rid of Vista !!
Good! The ads were horrible! Trying to bring back the whole Seinfeld humor was just weak.