Well, after 20 some years microslop has finally done something right...although it has nothing to do with computers...it almost makes you want to ask Steve to give him a job with Apple...I think this commercial is pretty good...

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I saw part of the ad on American TV tonight, came in for the last bit.

It seemed about as lame and unfunny as a Seinfeld episode, which shouldn't be surprising.

It sure didn't make me want to burn my Macintosh, or buy Vista for Boot Camp.

I'm a Seinfeld fan whom pretty much made the commerical work...

So the point of the ad was to buy shoes from Circus Clown because that is where Bill Gates buys his right? I'm sorry, but even the BOGO commercials are better then that one.

In all honesty, I would have flipped the channel. The commercial was BORING! Too long, no actual marketing of a product, except perhaps the shoes in that store. I hope they didn't spend too much money on this one.

I like Seinfeld: ad sucks.

Well, after 20 some years microslop has finally done something right...although it has nothing to do with computers...it almost makes you want to ask Steve to give him a job with Apple...I think this commercial is pretty good...

CrunchGear » Archive » Microsoft commercial with Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld (http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/09/04/microsoft-commercial-with-bill-gates-jerry-seinfeld/)

Are you kidding me?

I just logged onto ehMac after watching this commercial to specifically have a good public laugh at how utterly stupid this commercial was. I was really looking forward to this commercial and was thinking uh-oh... Microsoft might have some good ads to counter Apple's Mac - PC ads.

Boy, what a completely lame ad. Makes me think Microsoft has finally jumped the shark.

A $300 million ad campaign. I wonder how much this commercial cost? I was expecting something much better than that.. but its Microsoft right. Quite pathetic.

No where near as good as the Seinfeld - Superman commercials for America Express.

No where near as good as the Seinfeld - Superman commercials for America Express.

These Superman ads were great fun. The other: dreadful.

Not as bad as I thought it might be.
A bit endearing, really.

Maybe this ad will make Microsoft seem less satanic to over-40-year-olds.
But Jerry Seinfeld?! There are people graduating from college now who have never seen a Seinfeld episode and don't even know who Seinfeld is.

Will it sell Microsoft? It seems like a teaser to get people to keep Windows on their machines while they wait for the vapourware that this ad hints at.

If this Seinfeld-Microsoft campaign is produced by the same advertising company that made the insulting "Mojave" ads, than I hold no hope for a successful future for this campaign, and have no qualms about immediately predicting its utter failure.
If not produced by the same company, at best I'll reserve judgement until the next few ads in this series have run.

All I can say about the commercial is ............. yaaaaawn.
Hope the next ones are better - this one was pathetic.
And I like the Seinfeld episodes as well, I guess they hired different writers for these commercials.
The Apple ones for the most part were funny, entertaining and to the point.
This one is just plain boooooring.

So-So.

The Plusses:
1. I give high marks for the few in-jokes in the ad. Loved the "club card" mug shot.
2. Bill Gates is a LOT more natural on camera these days, or this commercial had a hell of a good director, because he comes off well.
3. You might smile at some points in the ad.

The Minuses:
4. WAY WAY WAY too much like an episode of Seinfeld. I know that's his thing, but can Jerry really do NOTHING ELSE??
5. No useful information. Whatsoever.
6. No focus. If the point of the ad campaign is to show Bill Gates is not an android from the future sent to kill us all, well, mission accomplished. But what else are we to get from this? I have no earthly idea.
7. THIS is competition to the "Get a Mac" ads? You gotta be freakin' kidding me.
8. Oh, and one last thing ... 90 SECONDS??! You need 90 seconds to get your no-discernible-message across??

This is like saying Sansa is going to topple the iPod. If this is the tone they're going for I say MORE PLEASE!! :)

Worst... episode... ever. Or something to that effect.

What a lame duck commercial. :ptptptptp

Looks like Jerry's put on weight. News at 11.

Department of irony: in every episode of Seinfeld, there was always a Macintosh computer sitting on the desk in the background in the living room of Jerry's apartment. He never actually used them, but that's a good eight years of product placement already in syndicated reruns. You can even guesstimate the year of the Seinfeld episode by what kind of Mac is on the desk.

purpose of commercial: for everyone to talk about it.
Could have been much better.

Department of irony: in every episode of Seinfeld, there was always a Macintosh computer sitting on the desk in the background in the living room of Jerry's apartment. He never actually used them, but that's a good eight years of product placement already in syndicated reruns. You can even guesstimate the year of the Seinfeld episode by what kind of Mac is on the desk.

Thank god...I thought I was going crazy...it was an Aplpe IIe I belive. I was wathcing it while I was about to repost and it was a PC on the desktop so I deleted it...

I thought the commercial good...not one other? Wow? Are you all Seinfeld fans or haters? A die hard Seinfeld fan would have found it funny I am sure...if you didn't like Seinfeld you likely wouldn't like the commercial.

Are you all Seinfeld fans or haters? A die hard Seinfeld fan would have found it funny I am sure...if you didn't like Seinfeld you likely wouldn't like the commercial.

Baloney. I loved the Seinfeld series, right up to just before the last episode. Anything since...meh. The Bee Movie sucked.

I gave up on it part way through...:confused:

They should have got Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese or Russell Peters to create the commercial.

So this is the so-called ad that was supposed to counter the "Get a Mac" ads?

FAIL! :lmao:

I think the cheesy Russell Oliver ads are better.

Ad placement... Last night, they had a Mac ad with the PC dude sitting on the throne (probably taking a dump like Windoze does from time to time, like every five minutes), they had the Sienfeld ad on, followed by a personal message from Stephen Harper where some Chinese girl is going to waste her vote on some Harperite in her first election (probably the retard Gary Lunn), and that was followed by a sex chat-line featuring a skanky chick with greasy bed head, followed by some new fangled birth control method that causes heart attacks, strokes, and makes people wear rubber bathing caps...

It all made me want to watch Mel Lastman's Big Boy commercials, followed by "I'm the CASHMAN...", then the Kia commercial with the geeky dude ripping off Flashdance in the showroom. And what ever happened to that place where the "Educated consumer is our best customer"?

And what ever happened to that place where the "Educated consumer is our best customer"?

Cy and Sylvia Simms!

5. No useful information. Whatsoever.


I dunno, I heard something about cake and computers? Maybe Microsoft is going to build on their "squirt" (http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/09/zune-sales-still-in-the-toilet/) technology that they developed for the Zune so PC users can have Ho Hos (http://www.hostesscakes.com/hohos.asp) and Ding Dongs (http://www.hostesscakes.com/dingdongs.asp) ooze out of their 'puters? :lmao: XX)

Nice ad .............. if your company is Circus Shoes.

Exactly! As a consumer watching a TV ad, the entire ad was based on Circus Shoes. I have shown this ad to many young people, and they too didn't understand it, and thought it was for some shoe advertisement.

If young teens thought it was for shoes, perhaps others who are older thought the same? If I took out knowing everything about computers and had to judge the commercial based on principle, I would have guessed a shoe commercial as well.

I could just see it now at a local highschool:

"Dude, did you see that new shoe commercial with Bill Gates in it? Isn't he the guy who worked for Microsoft? Did he get fired? Why is he doing shoe commercials? Oh and some Seinfeld dude was in it too, who is that guy?"

That could be happening right now as we speak in some school across this country. :lmao:

I never could stand Seinfeld, never watched his show and the ad is meaningless to me.

I learned a lot more about The Conquistador than I did about Microsoft.

I sense that this is the first in a series of commercials with Bill Gates and Seinfield doing bits. Next one, they are eating ice cream and JS goes on about "What's all the fuss about Google? Who ever would call their company 'Google'?" Gates agrees and then they about to order a different flavor of ice cream, but decide to stay with the "good stuff" (i.e., Windows).

Does this remind anybody of anyone?

Abe Simpson. "I used to be 'with it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it', and what's 'it' seems weird and scary."

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I'm a Seinfeld fan whom pretty much made the commerical work...

Try as I might, I don't really understand this sentence. :)

The future is delicious, eh? The commercial is inane.

I saw the commercial for the first time yesterday. I think Seinfeld was one of the best comedies ever on TV, but I did not follow that commercial at all. I kept watching to see what would happen and whether or not it would get funny, or at least make a point. I was left with an odd sense of bewilderment and wondering who I should talk to at Microsoft about getting my 1 minute back!

I was left with an odd sense of bewilderment and wondering who I should talk to at Microsoft about getting my 1 minute back!
You are very generous! I'm gonna get my whole 90 seconds back. :lmao:

As a commercial selling a product it was aweful...which yes negates my thread...but as a comedic "clip" I thought it was great. The end said "Delicious"...do we know if they are talking about vista? perhaps they are building the hype for a new cereal....thus Jerry Seinfeld...

The commercial did what it was supposed to do -- got us talking and wondering what is next since that can't be all there is to the campaign.

I kind of thought the end was kind of homosexually suggestive, like, I was wondering if Billy and Jerry were heading to TO for the big Pride Parade...

Instead of wasting money on advertizing some crud that is barely anything better than BOB - why don't they hire an actual programmer to write an operating system for them???

The commercial did what it was supposed to do -- got us talking and wondering what is next since that can't be all there is to the campaign.

Good point...it's like the "GABBO!" ad they had on The Simpsons...

Jerry talks of the future and then gets the Gates "wiggle", and then says "I knew it!!!" More to come.

The commercial was stupid, plain and simple. It was one long inside joke. There will be many kids who don't have a clue who Jerry Seinfeld is, let alone Bill Gates. A computer is that thing on the desk that lets them connect to Facebook. This commercial is really a good metaphor for Vista and Microsoft in general: confused, directionless, and run by a bunch of suits that don't know a thing about marketing. The spoof ads on YouTube do more to promote MicroSoft, for gosh sakes.

YouTube - Microsoft oPhone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WazA77xcf0A)

And this commercial for Seinfeld's movie "Comedian" is way funnier even though Seinfeld doesn't even appear in it. Funny is funny, and this overly long MicroSoft spot ain't it.

YouTube - Comedian - a movie trailer for Jerry Seinfeld w/ Hal Douglas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbFuNQwTbs)

You are very generous! I'm gonna get my whole 90 seconds back. :lmao:

"Decline."

RunTheWorldOnMac:

You are coming to a sad realisation. Cancel or Allow?

You are very generous! I'm gonna get my whole 90 seconds back. :lmao:

Sorry, I must have dosed off while watching.....it was that long eh?http://www.ehmac.ca/images/smilies/yawn.gif

Vista burgers are next. MacDonalds will distribute them at all WalMart stores. A true marriage of the corporate elites in the US. We shall see.

Just watched the ad once again and I see the point. At first, I thought it was about "nothing", a classic Seinfeld idea. Now, I see the spot as the first and most visible sign of an ambitious effort by Microsoft to reconnect with computer useers and to highlight how Windows has become an indispensible part of the lives, just like shoes. Next commercial will show the ease by which a computer with Windows Vista might be used by anyone. This reminds me of an old Apple commercial in which the father is trying to get his son's computer configured, and the boy finally leaves, saying that he is going over to Billy's house because "he has a Mac".

I think the cheesy Russell Oliver ads are better.

Ad placement... Last night, they had a Mac ad with the PC dude sitting on the throne (probably taking a dump like Windoze does from time to time, like every five minutes), they had the Sienfeld ad on, followed by a personal message from Stephen Harper where some Chinese girl is going to waste her vote on some Harperite in her first election (probably the retard Gary Lunn), and that was followed by a sex chat-line featuring a skanky chick with greasy bed head, followed by some new fangled birth control method that causes heart attacks, strokes, and makes people wear rubber bathing caps...

It all made me want to watch Mel Lastman's Big Boy commercials, followed by "I'm the CASHMAN...", then the Kia commercial with the geeky dude ripping off Flashdance in the showroom. And what ever happened to that place where the "Educated consumer is our best customer"?
And my friends wonder why I spend the extra cash to get the timeshifted channels AND a PVR. I do my best to watch my programs on US networks so I can avoid those horrible ads that run on CITY TV. I can also avoid having to watch the same ad 3 or more times in a 30 minute show (Global).

I am proud of the CBC's coverage of the Olympics, compared to NBC's, however the rest of the Canadian broadcasting industry, especially the development and placement of ads is terrible. There is no way that a Microsoft ad should run in the same block as a Mac ad, especially when the Mac ad makes the MS ad look foolish.

I am always reminded by the commercial years ago where the system operators have spent something like three days trying to get Windoze configured. I think it was a commercial for OS/2, which is saying something if they can rightfully claim that OS/2 is easier to install and run than Windoze.

For the record, I have never seen an actual functional Windoze system that is properly configured - seeing that by the time someone achieves that state, the system will probably choke and puke on a virus or something.

As for the commercial, again, an entire waste of cash because really, Fi$ta is such a dain bramaged system that wouldn't work with any of the hardware I currently run on my Macs. Nor is there any software for it that I would be interested in. It would be better if they abandoned it, and just went open source with something decent built upon Unix / Linux / BSD so at least could actually fix the problems.

I do my best to watch my programs on US networks so I can avoid those horrible ads that run on CITY TV. I can also avoid having to watch the same ad 3 or more times in a 30 minute show (Global).

Some American stations put the same commercial on twice in a row. I am not a big TV watcher (and I still no not own a TV myself), but it is amusing. CITY TV is pretty much garbage these days, they shouldn't have gotten rid of Moses Znaimer. But cheeziness does have it's place, and I am far more amuzed by the low production quality local ads than the snazzy and pointless big budget garbage.

There is no way that a Microsoft ad should run in the same block as a Mac ad, especially when the Mac ad makes the MS ad look foolish.

Microsoft shouldn't be allowed to advertise until they can produce a product that is relatively free of bugs. Imagine if software was covered by the same Lemon Laws that cars in California were covered by? The Evil Empire would be dead in a week...

I'll be brief, as I don't want to get too involved in conversation concerning Microsoft... There is no such thing as bad publicity [advertisement], case and point, look at how many are chatting it up. It may not have people out buying microsoft products, but it is causing a reaction non the less.

The future is delicious, eh? The commercial is inane.
And the future of technology is delicious? its all been done before... Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=20)

There is no such thing as bad publicity [advertisement], case and point, look at how many are chatting it up.[/url]
So what are you saying? That this Microsoft spot is the Paris Hilton of tech company advertising? Should we all just point and laugh? (Agreed.)

I am always reminded by the commercial years ago where the system operators have spent something like three days trying to get Windoze configured. I think it was a commercial for OS/2, which is saying something if they can rightfully claim that OS/2 is easier to install and run than Windoze.


It is. Personally, I think it's the best operating system I've ever used. It's easy to use and unbelievably flexible. There was even a hack devised to make it run most Win32 applications. And get this- they were more stable with a hack under OS/2 than running natively in Windows 95.

It is. Personally, I think it's the best operating system I've ever used. It's easy to use and unbelievably flexible. There was even a hack devised to make it run most Win32 applications. And get this- they were more stable with a hack under OS/2 than running natively in Windows 95.
I never thought of OS/2 as anything practical, since it hogged system resources like crazy, and so few programs were available for it. Sure, one could run DOS programs inside it, but one could run sixteen times the number of tasks with DesqView with a given amount of memory. It was kind of a niche product, and though it was superior to Windoze, that doesn't say much, seeing that pretty much any system (even those systems that were booted off of paper tape or punched card) are better than Windoze.

As far as the best operating system ever - every operating system devised has sucked in their own way. But I am inclined to think that DEC VMS was the best because it was the ultimate development of the time share system, and the one killer feature - file versioning, is something that should be implemented by all operating systems.

Of course, the mighty UNIX is currently the best operating system, and would be the best of all time if they ever implemented file versioning.

It was kind of a niche product, and though it was superior to Windoze, that doesn't say much, seeing that pretty much any system (even those systems that were booted off of paper tape or punched card) are better than Windoze.


Seriously, I don't know why so many Mac users make Windows sound like the Devil's OS- I use it daily, and I simply don't get the people who compare it to being slowly tortured and killed. Sure, that may have been more so the case with Windows 9x, but the NT-based operating systems are rock-solid. Not quite as good as OS/2.


Of course, the mighty UNIX is currently the best operating system, and would be the best of all time if they ever implemented file versioning.

I would be a UNIX fan, but I hate Linux with a passion and Mac OS X isn't as open as I would like it to be. I like to have some level of control over my computer, and Microsoft doesn't seem to care as much in this regard as does Apple.

Seriously, I don't know why so many Mac users make Windows sound like the Devil's OS- I use it daily, and I simply don't get the people who compare it to being slowly tortured and killed. Sure, that may have been more so the case with Windows 9x, but the NT-based operating systems are rock-solid. Not quite as good as OS/2.



I would be a UNIX fan, but I hate Linux with a passion and Mac OS X isn't as open as I would like it to be. I like to have some level of control over my computer, and Microsoft doesn't seem to care as much in this regard as does Apple.
It is not just Mac users. Windoze has always sucked, even the first versions that I got stiffed with having to use for a Canberra NMR system. It truly was horrible, slower and more useless than all get out. And sad thing is, that heritage has continued to today. I know of no other system that can be so thoroughly corrupted so quickly, even on a machine used for the lightest duty tasks.

Most of the Evil Empire's software is bloated, relatively useless, slow, and rarely if ever can do anything in a standard format. They can't even follow their own format, with the endless problem with versions of Word Document files. Nor can their system handle things like PDFs, which are a standard, without resorting to special third party software patches.

Even worse are "technologies" like the Registry, which was created to support the Ali Baba project that they were going to stiff their customers will (until it was ruled illegal by the courts). And all of the other ballyhoo and strange codes they put in to their system simply to make it entirely "Windoze Only".

By no stretch of the imagination can a system like XP or Fi$ta be considered "rock solid", as simply leaving the machine on for any length of time will leave it in a state of corruption. It is a platform that is not only riddled with viruses and malware, they can't fix any of it because of the hodgepodge of code they use, code that no one can hope to figure out. Add to that such deficiencies like DLL files, a number of brain damaged file mounts, a lack of adherence to standards, BMP files, and all other obsolete notions. Not to mention what is the ugliest GUI ever created, unrefined, riddled with bugs, and it still can not deal effectively with a mouse or pointer device.

I could go on and on and on, if only I had one of their lame boxes here to critique. And again, it is not just Mac users, I hated Windoze when I was a VMS user (and I didn't even have a colour terminal, though I was lucky to have a Retrographics board for the VT-101).

As for Mac OSX. I am not sure what other things one would need to "control", a few utilities can pretty much handle anything one would need: Cocktail, Onyx, CandyBar, etc. Of course, perhaps the Aqua interface is not to ones liking, but at least it is not cartoonish and ugly like Windoze.

Even worse are "technologies" like the Registry, which was created to support the Ali Baba project that they were going to stiff their customers will (until it was ruled illegal by the courts). And all of the other ballyhoo and strange codes they put in to their system simply to make it entirely "Windoze Only".


Holy crap, you have no idea how much I hate the registry. What a f*ck-up. Totally agree with you.


By no stretch of the imagination can a system like XP or Fi$ta be considered "rock solid", as simply leaving the machine on for any length of time will leave it in a state of corruption.

Vista, yes. It is bloated and feels rushed. But XP has never given me any problems; it's just when I'm stupid with it, like when I open programs that common sense tells me is a virus. Luckily, AVG takes care of that for me.


As for Mac OSX. I am not sure what other things one would need to "control", a few utilities can pretty much handle anything one would need: Cocktail, Onyx, CandyBar, etc. Of course, perhaps the Aqua interface is not to ones liking, but at least it is not cartoonish and ugly like Windoze.


I think my biggest problem with OS X is the font rendering. For me, it seems too fuzzy. I still have my Mac OS 9 font set to Chicago, because it's nice and clear. I don't like the Windows XP "Luna" theme, but I like the classic theme. Reminds me of OS/2 (Wait a minute... that's because Microsoft copied it!).

microslop is crap. PERIOD. I like their commercial which I am sure was made on a Mac.

did anyone post the second installment?

its actually funny... but going absolutely no where. The best part is you get to see the world's most successful man do the Robot!

did anyone post the second installment?

its actually funny... but going absolutely no where. The best part is you get to see the world's most successful man do the Robot!

I got bored about half way through and clicked off, so didn't get to see that.

Here's a question - or maybe a statement - I'm guessing these ads are for the internet only, as the second installment clocks in at 4 mins 30 seconds. I get fidgety watching a 1 minute ad on TV, let alone 4 1/2 minutes!

Much ado about nothing. :yawn:

dits actually funny... The best part is you get to see the world's most successful man do the Robot!
Funny? How? Like when a physically impaired person falls off their wheelchair? XX)

I got bored about half way through and clicked off, so didn't get to see that.

Here's a question - or maybe a statement - I'm guessing these ads are for the internet only, as the second installment clocks in at 4 mins 30 seconds. I get fidgety watching a 1 minute ad on TV, let alone 4 1/2 minutes!You may want to get that checked you may be suffering from ADD. I don't mean that as a joke.

PC ........... Perpetually Connected ..................... Windows implants in our minds .................... it all makes so much sense now.

you know... despite all the hype over this ad... i never actually once ended up seeing it...

You just taking it on as a newbie to dredge up the past... :D That's 3 old threads now I count that you "resurrected" today, Easter is already past...

You just taking it on as a newbie to dredge up the past... :D That's 3 old threads now I count that you "resurrected" today, Easter is already past...

These commercials are long-gone, nobody cares about them anymore. It's actually kinda sad that we made such a huge deal out of nothing.

They were so crappy I resigned them to the dustbin of memory a long time ago. Who even remembers that Jerry used to be funny?