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The First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad Makes No Sense

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Re: The First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad Makes No Sense

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Post by acesamped »

Have you guys watched the Seinfeld tv series? Its really the same kind of humor. lol. I found it funny

As much as we may hate to think it, in the end, I think Microsoft wins again because we DID watch the ad didn't we?

Jerry and his comedy is the bait.

We now know microsoft is up to something "delicious." whoopie.

Re: The First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad Makes No Sense

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Post by Dobbs »

acesamped wrote: post #5

Have you guys watched the Seinfeld tv series? Its really the same kind of humor. lol. I found it funny As much as we may hate to think it, in the end, I think Microsoft wins again because we DID watch the ad didn't we? Jerry and his comedy is the bait. We now know microsoft is up to something "delicious." whoopie.

I think Microsoft wins again because we DID watch the ad didn't we?

The problem with your statement, is that watches mean nothing if they do not sell the item. Selling the item means nothing if people don't view the ad.

One does not work without the other. In this case its getting views but its not selling, educating or performing anything to those views. This ad is nothing but empty views.

Re: The First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad Makes No Sense

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Post by volida »

for those that didn't get it:

the ad shows a normal conversation between two people. it wants to show that pcs are for normal people. this is achieved because it makes you think: hey look here are two famous people discussing something normal...

that's the thought that runs in your subconsious and thats what microsoft wants, where instead the message of Apple ads is hey "we use mac, we are better than you" bullshit...which apple's message is annoyingly imprinted in their users mind, reproduced in an annoying way by most of them.

Re: The First Bill Gates + Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad Makes No Sense

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Post by acesamped »

Dobbs wrote: post #6
acesamped wrote: post #5

Have you guys watched the Seinfeld tv series? Its really the same kind of humor. lol. I found it funny As much as we may hate to think it, in the end, I think Microsoft wins again because we DID watch the ad didn't we? Jerry and his comedy is the bait. We now know microsoft is up to something "delicious." whoopie.

I think Microsoft wins again because we DID watch the ad didn't we? The problem with your statement, is that watches mean nothing if they do not sell the item. Selling the item means nothing if people don't view the ad. One does not work without the other. In this case its getting views but its not selling, educating or performing anything to those views. This ad is nothing but empty views.

Honestly, I think no matter what we do we are doomed to be consumed by microsoft. I love linux. I have some friends who are staunch Mac users and others who eat, sleep, and pee linux. All of them have microsoft products on their computers. Schools, offices, homes, microsoft is everywhere all over the world.

The sad fact is that pc's are cheap and most people (general population) are lazy or uninterested in installing (or even learning about) other operating systems.

The product is sort of forced upon us. All we can really do is cope.

It seems like a lot of people upgrade their windows operating system when a new one comes out (except with vista because of all of the bad reviews).

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