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- Qorzm, on 09/18/2008, -34/+745 I was actually excited for their third commercial..
- nymphetamine, on 09/18/2008, -17/+580Breaking: Microsoft Announces New Sitcom Featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates
Come on, you know you'd watch that. - etandrib, on 09/18/2008, -7/+383This is a repost from a comment on the NYTimes site about this same subject:
"So “Windows. Life without walls” is the campaign slogan. I can already hear what a Seinfeld not paid by Microsoft would say in his monologue: "If you live a life without walls- why on earth would you need windows?" - Filipp0, on 09/18/2008, -2/+272Seinfeld crashes his car on Gates' Porsche, but can't afford to pay for the damages.
The judge rules that he must become Gates' butler. - JFallon126, on 09/18/2008, -74/+326Let's be serious people...as commercials these were awful. Good for a chuckle? Yes. Selling something? No.
- Proz, on 09/18/2008, -17/+212Microsoft didn't cancel anything.
Here's what they wrote on The Windows Vista Team Blog:
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So there seems to be the rumor running around that we're supposedly cancelling our Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld ads tomorrow. I wouldn't count on anything being "cancelled". It was always the plan to have Jerry Seinfeld in the first phase of the campaign and not a part of every ad. Instead, our Windows Consumer Campaign is moving into the next phase and we did mention previously that you should expect the campaign to evolve. I'll direct you to a post by Stuart Elliott of The New York Times to shed some light on what's next for our ad campaign.
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Why is it that Valleywag makes a story out of anything? NEW ISSUE OF NYTIMES TODAY!!!! NYTIMES CANCELS YESTERDAYS NEWSPAPER!!!one!! - jwdav, on 09/18/2008, -23/+182Whoa ... who saw this coming?
:) - inactive, on 09/18/2008, -7/+141Next commercial: A annoying self-pretentious douchebag Dane Cook to run around Gates screaming "Do you remember working at the 'Soft? I did and we had these soda fountains we'd drink late night and I am seeing demons and tortured souls coming out of my MS Excel, that is ***** intense!, oh my god i'm so ***** funny!"
- roadtripper, on 09/18/2008, -4/+114"Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates?"
You mean the ones that were plastered all over the web just last week? No. No, I don't remember them. - Zaggy111, on 09/18/2008, -7/+92Kramer: I'm out. Elaine: What?! Kramer: Yeah, I'm out - I'm out of the contest. George: You're out?! Kramer: Yeah, yeah.. What? Elaine: Well, that was fast!
- CalcProgrammer1, on 09/18/2008, -4/+83In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
- inactive, on 09/18/2008, -5/+83Upon discovering that a few people got a chuckle from the commercials, Microsoft decided it was time to cancel them - their reputation for producing ***** that's universally hated was on the line.
- Jeffler, on 09/18/2008, -4/+80Gatesfeld?
Siencrosoft?
Jerry and Bill's Super Power Flower Hour? - rev67, on 09/18/2008, -32/+104I dont understand how anyone could not enjoy those ads
- bogdan77, on 09/18/2008, -26/+93So Microsoft can't even choose good scripts/scriptwriters to promote themselves properly... Good for them!
- slapded, on 09/18/2008, -24/+811. Steal idea for windows
2. Make a crapload of cash
3. ???
4. Robot - Wakuko, on 09/18/2008, -7/+62In the third commercial Seinfeld says to Gates:
"Look, billy, I own so many macs I have my own internet" - jemka, on 09/18/2008, -3/+50What's the deal with canceling my commercials? Am I not funny? Did I say something wrong? I'm Jerry Seinfeld!
- PrismoFillusion, on 09/18/2008, -4/+47His stand-up acts consistently sell out, and they're ***** expensive too. I call that success.
- hoodoodave, on 09/18/2008, -20/+62Can't lie, I liked them.
- punkcat, on 09/18/2008, -1/+43oh, oh do the one about the peanuts on the airlines!
- Elranzer, on 09/18/2008, -1/+40Ten years? Probably later this afternoon.
- Theli, on 09/18/2008, -0/+38Would you like some oranges?
- jamesgott, on 09/18/2008, -3/+38i like how you made it look like its the "aging comic's" fault.
Money well spent, there microsoft - 4DFX, on 09/18/2008, -0/+34It was George. He tried negotiating for a higher price again.
- inactive, on 09/18/2008, -11/+42Who cares if they didn't sell crap? I enjoyed them. Well, I guess I can see how Microsoft would prefer commercials that actually advertised a product, but whatever.
- inactive, on 09/18/2008, -3/+32The problem with Microsoft here is what it's always been---follow through. Microsoft is a reactive company, meaning that everything it's done since Windows for Workgroups has been a response to something that someone else has done--including this ad campaign, both beginning it and ending it.
If they'd just ignored the heckling and gone on with it, perhaps changing their plans and the commercials plots subtly along the way and seen it to its conclusion, its very likely that they would have come out the other side with at least a much stronger positive branding if nothing else.
OBmicrosoftsucksanyway: I'm not saying microsoft doesn't suck anyway. - inactive, on 09/18/2008, -2/+31See, this story is a good example of the overused "breaking" tag... "BREAKING: New commercials won't be made anymore! EXTRA EXTRA!!!"
- poxonyou, on 09/18/2008, -0/+27Larry David doesn't get the credit he deserves for Seinfeld, but all the characters, including Seinfeld himself, fit perfect for the show. When Larry David left, the episodes, and characters, starting going overly bizarre. They weren't able to quite get it right, not that it wasn't still funny. Seinfeld got almost all the credit and attention for the show in the mass media.
- etandrib, on 09/18/2008, -2/+28wtf?
- lalalalamppost, on 09/18/2008, -1/+27I agree. I was looking forward to it as well.
As pure entertainment, say a sitcom, it was enjoyable. I will give it that. As marketing, it was horrible, unless there was some subtle brainwashing going on that I didn't detect. - manstein01, on 09/18/2008, -2/+28So they paid him 10 million for two commercials?
I doubt it, sounds like spin. - bossgalaga, on 09/18/2008, -0/+26Um...with that username, I doubt it
- etandrib, on 09/18/2008, -2/+27I would watch the third commercial just to find out if they have decided on a direction to take the ads… I guess we'll never know.
- tbredofsin, on 09/18/2008, -3/+26A hesitant, confused chuckle, maybe. For me, though, it was more of a loud, incredulous "what the ***** did I just watch."
- mrBitch, on 09/18/2008, -1/+21But are you still "Master of your domain"?
- inactive, on 09/18/2008, -5/+25Microsoft is learning that tons of money can't make a good ad campaign... kinda like tons of money won't make your OS good. it all comes from good ideas.
- jun2san, on 09/18/2008, -4/+24I believe these commercials werent directly trying to sell something but to increase product awareness.
- mutesounds, on 09/18/2008, -6/+24The commercials were slightly entertaining but didn't make much sense, kind of like Vista. I love Jerry though, he is awesome at whatever he does.
- chrisaug18, on 09/18/2008, -0/+18did it scare you when that comment flew right over your head?
- Elranzer, on 09/18/2008, -2/+19Seinfeld XP
- etandrib, on 09/18/2008, -4/+20Do you really think that is "as planned"? Pay Seinfeld 10 Million for two ads for a teaser? The ads didn't even fully develop. The end of the second ad gave a slight notion to what they were trying to do but we can't be sure because the message was different from the first ad - no consistency.
Like EVERYTHING Microsoft does there isn't consistency. The ads really are an accurate portrayal of M$. Confusing, complicated and whimsical. Good luck. - etandrib, on 09/18/2008, -0/+16Seinfeld and his $10 million.
- iseth, on 09/18/2008, -2/+18It's exactly why I kinda liked the ads. They seemed like a sitcom way more than they seemed like ads.
- inactive, on 09/18/2008, -2/+18You're criticizing a commercial for not selling stuff? What has this world come to?
- PabloMac, on 09/18/2008, -0/+16Commercials about nothing.
- ColinZeal, on 09/18/2008, -5/+21In ten years we will all read/digg a feature on "Top 10 Most Horrible Commercials" at cracked.com and this will be in the Top 5.
- Jareth86, on 09/18/2008, -5/+21Buried for labeling Seinfeld as " the aging comic". Hate microsoft all you want, but leave Jerry out of it.
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