That's even shorter lived than BOB, and MUCH shorter than Vista. :>( ... Ben
Myers
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:17:22 -0400, "Christopher Muto" <>
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>>>>>> Did you see the Seinfeld / Gates commercial?
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> Bill Gates looks terrible. It's a commercial about nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>> and the Seinfeld show was about what?
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin (seen the show, not the commercial)
>>>>
>>>> that commercial is brought to you by the same advertising firm that
>>>> managed to make the iconic burger king king weird and creepy. this
>>>> campaign is well on its way to making vista and gates appear weird and
>>>> creepy, or has that already happened?
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Yep. The commercial is redundant in that regard.
>>>
>>> Everybody who said, "huh?" after viewing it for the first time please
>>> raise your hand.
>>>
>>> The commercial is stupid and uncomfortable and only throws more office
>>> furniture on the Vista bonfire imo.
>>>
>>> Yea, Microsoft. Way to go team!
>>
>> i read that the agency doing this campaign is know to set their goal to
>> have people talk about the advertisements... not necessarily that they
>> want you to have a positive or negative image but just to get you to
>> remember the advertisement and get people talking about it. they have a
>> history of mixed results in their campaigns. i think this one looks like
>> a looser, even if the goal is just to get people to talk about it. how is
>> sienfeld supposed to make anything look hip and cool. funny, maybe, but
>> not hip or cool. and it is pretty sad day for sienfeld to see that gates
>> can out act him.
>>
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>microsoft ends sienfeld ad compaign...
>http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9115019
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