Posted on 08/21/2008 12:33:28 AM PDT by HAL9000
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Microsoft Corp., weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.'s advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld.The software giant's new $300 million advertising campaign, devised by a newly hired ad agency, has been closely guarded. But Mr. Seinfeld will be one of the key celebrity pitchmen, say people close to the situation. He will appear with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in ads and receive about $10 million for the work, they say.
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I never watched it either. Who cares about a bunch of whiney New Yorkers.
Appearing with Gates, Seinfeld will be the “cool” guy. Just barely.
Maybe Vista will be portrayed as the soup Nazi (I saw it on youtube). Do it my way or “No computing for you!”
I don’t know about everyone else but I can’t pass through a window any more than I can pass through a wall.
Absolutely agree. Incredible bunch of writers too.
I never "watched" it except for maybe two episodes. I think Seinfeld is terribly boring.
I can see the brilliance in this. This is an incredibly hip move by Microsoft.
If it were 1998.
Yep, nothing shows you're not stodgy than bringing in the guy who had that hip edgy show last century.
You kids! With your Offices, your Two Men, and When I Met Your Mother...aahhh! Now Seinfeld! THAT was a show... Now get the hell off my lawn!
.....You kids!.....Now get the hell off my lawn!.....
But pick up all those little green BB’s before you go!!
Same here. All during the 90's I got "You look like Seinfeld" or "You look like Kramer" but couldn't stand to even watch the show. The first full episode I actually watched was The Finale.
Then I watched a re-run of "The Handicapped Spot" at a friends house and was hooked, though I refused to admit it at first, and hid it like it was Kenny Rogers Chicken.
#26 was supposed to be a Seinfeld Ping.
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Pushing an OS that’s about nothing, I see. Jerry Seinfeld, from Bee Movie, to B-software...
It carried a lot of “life lessons”...like “shrinkage”.
ping
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Pssssst, Jerry Seinfeld is a “has been.”
Actually, the show was/is pretty funny. I watched a rerun today that broke me up.
I would add:
"No Windows XP for you!"
"Vista - it's European!"
You've got the point of Seinfeld. It was a show about nothing! There were a series of episodes where George and Jerry pitch a "show about nothing" to the TV execs.
Seinfeld the show was funny, too bad Seinfeld the “comedian” isn’t.
I wonder how many programmers could have have been employed for the price JS charges for this?
“According to the article, the new slogan for the product is “Windows, Not Walls”. “
Levels, Jerry.
And how OLD is Seinfeld now? Got to be in his 50's. The guy who plays PC in the Mac ads is much younger.
Those Apple commercials are perfect fodder for someone like Jerry Seinfeld. Look at it...the PC guy is always dressed nice, always willing to work. Sure he screws up, but who doesn’t? Who is perfect. Meanwhile the Mac guy is never doing anything. He just stands around, kind of laid back. Slacking. The message for business is clear. PC works. He tries. He has ambition. Mac stands around and look cool.
I see. Jerry Seinfeld, from Bee Movie, to B-software...
BINGO !
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