Comments on: First Seinfeld + Gates Microsoft Ad is Utterly Pointless

By: Bec

Bec — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:30:09 +0000

I liked Seinfeld back in the day. This made me want to cry a little.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:38:49 +0000

I’ve always been a big Seinfeld fan, but this was disappointing. Maybe it’s because he wasn’t writing with Larry David.

By: Brandon Black

Brandon Black — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:35:51 +0000

To be fair though, I’ve never found Seinfeld to be funny. But still… this was a new low.

By: Brandon Black

Brandon Black — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:34:05 +0000

Seriously… no mention of their product, horribly boring and unfunny conversation and would make a crack-whore double-take and say “WTF?!?”

What where they thinking? Waste of their money, and my time.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:34:41 +0000

WTF? The windows symbol at the end just flashed by. I think the average television viewer would have no idea what they just saw.

By: Binary Assassin

Binary Assassin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:29:04 +0000

I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head.

By: Josso

Josso — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:09:14 +0000

He didn’t said it was funny. Just that it was great. ;)

I really think that Microsoft can do something.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:38:43 +0000

What did you think was funny about it?

By: Matt Lynch

Matt Lynch — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:08:48 +0000

Obviously this is just the start of an ad campaign designed to make us realize that Microsoft is really just made up of people, people like us. We can relate better to people than we can to a huge organization that doesn’t seem to care. This ad wasn’t about Vista it was about getting us to feel warm and cozy about Microsoft. And the $10m isn’t just for one ad, I think that pretty much guaranteed. This was just an intro.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:56:52 +0000

I thought it was great. I guess people are just so used to being anti-microsoft that they just hate everything they put out. I thought it was good to step away from Vista and make an entertaining commercial, try to alter the big bad evil corporation label. Unfortunately I don’t think that will ever happen, people hate MS and even if they use the products everyday, everyone has a gripe.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:40:14 +0000

The only thing that made me laugh was “they run tight.”

Mostly lame. Seinfeld, you’re ruining your brand.

By: mattmaison

mattmaison — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:56:07 +0000

I thought it was pretty funny. The Mac vs PC commercials are getting pretty tired. This first commercial showed me that the Seinfeld/ Microsoft campaign might be at least entertaining.

Is it just me or does Bill Gates in this act a lot like the Family Guy version of Bill Gates?…

-Matt