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So, windows is like showering with your clothes on while chewing on a keyboard?...
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Mr_Saikou commented on First Microsoft ad with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld
Agreed, I am not buying the product, but the spot is entertaining....
jbang commented on First Microsoft ad with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld
So... these ads were developed to grab "mind share" not from Apple, but from Mac OS X. And reshape opinions of Vista - at least that's what reports of Seinfeld's involvement in ad were about. Seems they neglect a few things: 1) a product and, well... that's it. Even if it's clearly about Microsoft, which I don't think it is, it still isn't telling people anything about much. Any analogies between PC's running Vista and good, sturdy shoes is absolutely lost in novelty of the ad. This is going to confuse the hell out of consumers, or just entertain them...
Akratic Behavior commented on First Microsoft ad with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld
@ #34: You made very good points. I agree wholeheartedly. I have used a Mac for over 3 years now, but I can really appreciate this ad. Very tongue-in-cheek, very classy. In fact, they had me at "chur-ro."...
BlackAndy commented on First Microsoft ad with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld
Although I usually try to be a member of the Johnson family, Ridingnowhere85 up there (at #2) seems to be an astroturfer. He/she/they/it left a very similar if not the same comment on the Ars Technica discussion of the ad (here, about 10 comments down), and another poster there called them on astroturfing. Also, I didn't get "absurdist" so much as I did "forced idiosyncratic". ("Waiting for Godot" it is not.) So no, I didn't really like it....
slowpioson commented on First Microsoft ad with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld
I fail to see the humor in that. And I wonder why some people are calling it awesome. Somebody please explain!! Please!...

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