Microsoft Ad Campaign

[DangerAardvark]

I believe Homer Simpson said it best: Text

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: SSSnail
I think they do it just because they can... and love this line from the second ad

Kid "Wow, cool, when is this coming out???"
Bill "Never, and if someone ask you where you got it from, you don't know".

:laugh: I love that part

 

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OMG the ending made me laugh so hard!

 

[Queasy]

It's a commercial....about nothing!

 

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For the slow folks, this post from engadget sums it up nicely:

Chuckles McGee @ Sep 12th 2008 7:36AM

The "gum" and other bad things (the broken car, swimming pool without heater, empty ketchup bottle, repeating the same stale meal twice) represent Windows XP- people getting by with the same old, day in and day out. The grandmother represents an old Windows user, clueless and bitterly disconnected, since she's been "around for 12 years". The scallop potatoes and "fancy" mustard represents XP's attempts to keep modern and with the times. The leather giraffe, here a carry over from the previous "leather" of the first commercial, represents Windows XP itself ("had it in the family 6 years"), and Gate's being planted with it represents the criticism that Microsoft encountered when it tried to take XP away from new machines in an attempt to push Vista. In reality though, the commercial claims that the real reason why people were upset was because Microsoft was infringing on people's space (Seinfeld clipping his nails in the girls room) and so this is why Jerry and Bill leave. And there's something big coming from Microsoft.

 

[Vette73]

P-A version of new ad.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: SSSnail
I think they do it just because they can... and love this line from the second ad

Kid "Wow, cool, when is this coming out???"
Bill "Never, and if someone ask you where you got it from, you don't know".

:laugh: I love that part

I liked the part where seinfeld said "you and I are a little out of it. You're living in some kind of moon house hovering over Seattle like the mother ship. I got so many cars I get stuck in my own traffic."

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

1st Ad

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
1st Ad

Bravo. This is excellent.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I like that they are showing the different applications for PCs in the world and the fact that they are actually marketing some product. I do miss the comedy of Gates and Seinfeld.

 

[Throckmorton]

I just saw the ad on Cartoon Network. Pretty good

 

[TehMac]

That's awesome. You guys clearly don't understand the advertisement, I find it bloody brilliant. Instead of just saying "wahh wahh, Mac's suck my two ball sacks," they come up with a humorous way to reinvent the electronic world with metaphors.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

"I'm a PC and I study the law" = HOT as HELL
"And I have a beard" "And I turn #2 into energy!" "And I sell fish..." = :laugh:

 

[DefDC]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
P-A version of new ad.

Heh. I was just gonna link to that! So funny!

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

I think they are just trying to remove the bad press around Vista.

 

[Ktulu]

Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
I think they are just trying to remove the bad press around Vista.

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[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: clamum

Originally posted by: Anubis
Why no hyperterminal? because no one uses it anymore

UAC is annoying, yes you can turn it off, but its still annoying. not hard to turn off takes 2 secs shouldent be an issue

I have to make an effort to run cmd as admin to get anything done log in as admin

No Admin tools for AD like with XP ?

Network Control panel is horrible ok ill give you that one

Everything moved and is now counter intuitive people bitched about the same thing from 98/2k->XP

Too high requirements for an OS that doesnt do anything new stop trying to run it on a 10 year old computer, it runs perfectly fine on midrange comps that were out when it was released

Network transfers are much slower compared to XP never had issues with this + they fixed it in SP1

Application compatibility is a joke never had an issue here

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Hahaha, Hyperterminal. No one fucking uses that bullshit.

i do. often. when you work with telemetry systems that date up to 15 yrs old, the chance of needing it is always there. it is still a great tool to use when the new protocols fail as well. many industrial radios/ modems have a HT back door to use in case their ethernet isnt working. as for the compatibility, the way they changed services running is a huge issue for many communications software packages. out of all the scada software i use for work, i cant think of one that is compliant to run on vista. that all said, i have no real issues using vista on a personal level, i just cant use it for work. all my machines are still bought with xp pro on them.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Originally posted by: Ktulu

Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
I think they are just trying to remove the bad press around Vista.

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Just saying. I think with these they are actually trying to do it. With the Seinfeld ones, they were just trying to build hype about the product not really addressing the shortcomings.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Yeah, liked it. But too long for normal TV surely?

commercials are always huge long. the first time they play, it is cut down to a smaller slot. there are also different time slot versions for them. ever notice the super bowl commercials are 1 min long usually, then get cut down to 30 or 15 sec afterward?


i didnt hate either of them. the 2nd is funnier than the first, but the first serves its purpose. they are trying to give a human value to m$, since its always been seen as a corporate entity. ive never thought seinfeld was funny overall, show or stand up, even tho i thought some of his comedy was funny. the show was funny at times, but was mainly due to the whole cast, not jerry. they also have made a point to allude to big, new things on the horizon, so the commercial does what they are intended to do.

 

[bluearyus]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist
i do. often. when you work with telemetry systems that date up to 15 yrs old, the chance of needing it is always there. it is still a great tool to use when the new protocols fail as well. many industrial radios/ modems have a HT back door to use in case their ethernet isnt working. as for the compatibility, the way they changed services running is a huge issue for many communications software packages. out of all the scada software i use for work, i cant think of one that is compliant to run on vista. that all said, i have no real issues using vista on a personal level, i just cant use it for work. all my machines are still bought with xp pro on them.

solutions:
1) use putty

2) buy hyperterminal for vista -> http://www.hilgraeve.com/hyperterminal.html

3) copy hypertrm.dll and hypertrm.exe from your xp cd to your vista computer.

 

[Baked]

I like the new I am a PC ad.

"I am a PC, I can build my own computer and I'm not a smug douchebag."