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- Gates and Seinfeld - Part Deux
- Gates and Seinfeld - Part DeuxMy wifeSaid that the ad seemed demeaning - some rich guys deigning to live with the riff-raff.You just don't get it...These ads are absolutely hysterical! I was literally ROTFLMAO from these ads. My rep sent me the talking points before the ad was aired, pointing...
- Tags: Jerry Seinfeld, advertisement, Part Deux, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?
- Microsoft's Seinfeld ads: what's the real agenda?Wow....What keen insight. What a great article.Oh. Not.Perdue, Ioccoca, Seinfeld 4?If Lee Iococca can do ads for Chrysler and have a positive effective on the brand, then maybe BG is launching a new career in advertising and media and selling the MS...
- Tags: MS Window, Seinfeld, advertisement, Seinfeld ad, real agenda, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-06
- Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?
- Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?Microsoft is also airing the Mojave experiment ads. nt.RE: Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?That add is really stupid . . . but, if you're totally incapable of building a quality operating system, why not try comedy?Best marketing for...
- Tags: Operating systems, Branding, Microsoft Windows, advertisement, Windows Gurus, Windows brand, Microsoft Corp., brand, Seinfeld
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Seinfeld
- SeinfeldHow did this make it past focus groups?My theory is that they told the focus group subjects it was for a different company, and the subjects responded favorably. Therefore, we're all wrong and Microsoft is right.Wow, that's just brilliant!Windows' image is no longer tarnished. They are now being associated with...
- Tags: Marketing research, Microsoft Corp., Seinfeld, Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?
- First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?Hmmm ....Could be worse ....Homer: [narrating a TV commercial] Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?Maybe......they should hire the company that does the Mac commercials....
- Tags: humour, advertisement, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., ad air
- Discussion threads 2008-09-04
- This week's rants
- This week's rantsYou've got it.I never tire of Robin Harris telling the world that MS has lost all their data...a classic. Even when he admits other filesystems are worse. Why then MS? Well they are the biggest and deserve to be blamed...so there..pouted Robin in reply to that question. ...
- Tags: Linux, Blogging, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Seinfeld
- Discussion threads 2008-08-23
- This week's rants
- Hey - everybody should be allowed the odd rant - and mine today are about Microsoft's use of Jerry Seinfield in advertising and the absolute intellectual and moral banruptcy exhibited by a captivated press at Intel's IDF/08. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Friend, Seinfeld, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-23
- Seinfeld target is not open source
- Seinfeld target is not open sourceIrrelavant comicIs that site supposed to be relavant or something?Seinfeld's from Massapequa?I grew up the other side of Boundry Ave. in F'dale.:)Well, the ads may not target Apple or open source, but, they sure are aresponse to Apples successful ads and increasing market share, and...
- Tags: Apple Ads, Seinfeld, advertisement, Apple Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Building Windows, not walls
- Building Windows, not wallsBuilding Windows, not wallsHooray for ZDNet duplication! Now we only need 5 more articles about this subject which will coincide with ZDNet agenda.[i]will reinvigorate Vista's image and make Microsoft less of an Apple chump.[/i]As of lately the chump has been Apple with their failures. This ad...
- Tags: Construction, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), zune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, wall, Building Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Seinfeld
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Seinfeld and Gates vs. Apple
- Seinfeld and Gates vs. AppleIn other wordsThey were successful enough to retire early.Any attempts to potshot these guys may go over well in the ABM community, but the general public will see it as sour grapes. Which means this could actually do what MS wants.Seinfeld? WHO?Oh yeah he had...
- Tags: Construction, Desktops, Apple Inc., Seinfeld
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
- Seinfeld to host the Microsoft Makeover
- Seinfeld to host the Microsoft MakeoverRE: Seinfeld to host the Microsoft MakeoverPersonally, never liked the comedy styling of Jerry Seinfeld. I'm not partial to the whining and other obvious childish renderings.But how apropos for Microsoft!!!!!!Annnnnnnd cue the ABMers.ACTION!!!!A PC perspective was done about a year ago"Do you need a lift...
- Tags: Desktops, Recruitment & Selection, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Makeover, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
Additional Resources
- 2010 Lexus RX 450h
- Photo gallery:2010 Lexus RX 450hRemember that Seinfeld episode where George Costanza said, "I would drape myself in velvet if it were socially acceptable?" Well, sitting in the 2010 Lexus RX 450h is like being draped in velvet, and, with the economical hybrid drivetrain, it is socially responsible. Lexus vehicles show...
- Tags: Lexus
- Product reviews 2009-11-03
- Was Windows 7 totally your idea?
- Crispin, Porter + Bogusky -- the ad agency that is behind a variety of Microsoft's recent ad campaigns (everything from the confounding Gates/Seinfeld skits, to the Laptop Hunters, to the newest Kylie happy talk series) -- is launching yet another group of ads starting this week. by Mary Jo...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- New Windows Phone ad an alternate universe where Office is your friend
- Microsoft ads? Weird?How can you say that about the company that brought you those classic Gates/Seinfeld spots???
- Tags: advertisement, Microsoft Office, phone
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Will Windows Mobile jump back to number 2 by 2013?
- Don't summon the marketing people...Win7 house party ads check cNet Buzz Report for a nice roast, Bill Gates shaking his posterior, and misleading Laptop Hunters ads...these are the people you want to sell people on WinMo?Personally I'd say to have MS do the same thing that they mostly do with...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Wireless and Mobility, phone, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Windows, mobile, WinMo
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Probably the most awful, soul destroying thing I've ever seen
- wow those were just AWFUL..thats about 6 minutes of my life i wont get back. CHEESE CITY! lol.RE: Probably the most awful, soul destroying thing I've ever seenYou are goddammed right. IT feels like I am watching the cast of Barney, as they keep nodding their heads at each...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Blonde, video, second video, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Microsoft's Windows 7 ad campaign kicks off
- Cute. [NT]ntCute.Not sure it's effective though. It may be. But... flows like a book ad. Will probably be effective only in certain segments. So I bet we will see a couple very different ads.RE: Microsoft's Windows 7 ad campaign kicks offlooks like they brain washed her, since when 6 year...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, advertisement, car, operating system, Microsoft Corp., lemon, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Tech Needs New Words: Tech Marketing Needs Your Help
- A few other words..."Microsoftonomics" - How to deal with economies of scale like where Microsoft lives. The high tech version of Voodoo Economics."Google-google dancing" - For those times where someone using Google finds something on the first try and just has to dance."Ciscotem Engineering" - Building systems with just...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Tech marketing, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- Frugal Friday: Media Outrageousness, Snow Leopard Woes, Mac Virtualization, VMWorld 2009, EU kiboshes Oracle/Sun, Brocade
- Filling time with white catsEven though it's a humor book, let me just ponder its suggestion that when Seinfeld and Gates visited that suburban family, we were seeing 100% solid street. You know what I'm saying?As I suggested in the talkbacks to the earlier post, Apple has not, to my...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Apple Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-05
- New Apple ads target Windows viruses and headaches
- Apple has released two new television commercials that take coordinated swipes at Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 without ever actually mentioning Windows by name. "Top of the Line" features comic actor Patrick Warburton, best known for his portrayal of David Puddy, Elaine Benes' boyfriend in 10 episodes of...
- Tags: Advertisement, PC, Apple Inc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
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