Comments on: Forget "The Conquistador": When Is Microsoft Going to Drop the Other Shoe on Its Conquering Web Strategy?

By: Seinfeld and Gates Ads Over: Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:47:48 +0000

[...] be the judge. Here are the three ads. The first with the churros joke and the second and third visit with a family [...]

By: Yahoo’s New Marketing Push: Purple Rain! (Actually, Purple Pain.) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:14:34 +0000

[...] Bill Gates eats churros with Jerry Seinfeld and adjusts his skivvies hands-free, that’s [...]

By: Henry Spitzer

Henry Spitzer — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:09:47 +0000

They have got to be kidding! How does this “communicate the MSFT-Vista” message? THe day that Gates figures out that the reason Vista and MSFT have such a lousy image and reputation, is because every piece of software they sell is riddled with bugs, open to hacks, LESS than user friendly, causes other software to crash after every MSFT “update”, AND corrects those problems, THAT will be the day MSFT will be reborn. When will the guys in Redmond lean that stupid ads don’t make things better but great products do.

By: Jim Hassinger

Jim Hassinger — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:16:22 +0000

What am I missing? Seinfeld famously had the show about nothing, and now he has a commercial about nothing. What is it even about? Bill Gates is an old, doddering fool? A cheapskate who carries a wacky ID of himself so he can get discount shoes?
I was expecting some shots back at Apple, to answer the “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” commercials. Instead, it’s a bunch of mildly amusing — on some planet — irrelevancies. Okay, it’s “branding,” but is there a single individual on the planet who doesn’t know the Microsoft brand? Bill doesn’t run things anymore.
I just don’t know what they were thinking. I think the silly people at Microsoft who think they “shouldn’t bring attention” to their rivals have won one more round.
Microsoft always looks, when doing “whimsy,” like an elephant in a tutu.

By: The Windows Commercial Explained « Out Of My Mind

The Windows Commercial Explained « Out Of My Mind — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:22:08 +0000

[...] P. at All Things D: Not quite sure what to make of Microsoft’s (MSFT) new ad campaign? Here’s how Bill Veghte, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Online Services & Windows [...]

By: Microsoft Memo: New Windows Ad “An Icebreaker” | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:04:13 +0000

[...] Forget “The Conquistador”: When Is Microsoft Going to Drop the Other Shoe on Its Conquer… [...]