I'm a PC Microsoft Ad - Life Without Walls

[SPIRITofLOVE76]

I'm a PC too!

[techie190]

I'm A PC and I love Microsoft

[Xx7liladam7xX]

the microsoft ads are so bad D:

[Tununias]

What are they getting at? Everyone uses a Personal Computer. The only people I can think this commercial is for is the Amish, but they're never going to see this.

[vajksziget7a]

And then comes apple and linux and google.

[vajksziget7a]

Wait

[vajksziget7a]

I think that microsoft will be dead....Just need to wa

[sinisterstuf]

I'm a mac and I'm a twat because Apple computers are PCs too! A PC is a PC whether it's running Windows or not. REGARDLESS OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM YOU USE ON IT OR WHO MADE THE HARDWARE! Whether you use Mac OS on your PC, or Microsoft Windows on your PC or GNU+Linux on your PC, by definition, it's still a friggin PC!

I am not a Mac and I am not a PC, I am a person that proudly does not use Windows or Mac OS.

[bmhit1991]

Yay! Ordinary people run Windows! I'm looking to be extraordinary though, so no thanks.

[porahivaelmundo]

What a load of crap!!! how this ad gets as low as Apple's Ads... I don't give a fuck if people use Apple computers or Usual OEM/ODM Computers... this ad is just as moronic as Apple's... Just wow...

I'm a PC and I'm proud of it?????????? I'm a mac and think I'm a sexy elite guy/gal???

Get over it people and get a freakin life!!!

[GeneralHoohah]

This has got to be the worse ad campaign I've ever seen.

If you don't have walls, what the hell do you put the window in!?

[reon10]

I am a mac and I don't have Windows because I am free of walls!

[Xkanystr]

Live without firewalls... ? Just machines, and both mac and windows can really piss you off...

[SsomedudeE]

I'm a PC and i Fail at Life.

[Tekkenfreek234]

Microsoft gives you Windows

Linux gives you the whole house!

[Exdozolie]

Computers are like air coolers, they stop working well when you open windows.

[alistairstuart2009]

that guy at the end sells fesh whats that lol

[vanzahn]

i love the irony in the tagline 'Life without walls'. If we didn't have walls why would we need windows?

[drakesolar]

this was bullshit until win7 came out

[summretimes]

i'm a pc and i run linux

[psxworld101]

@summretimes WIN!

[tszheichoi]

It sounds pretty odd

[finbar3bar]

I'M A MAC AND I GOT NO VIRUSES OLOL

Neither do Windows ;)

[arosta1]

I got a better one:

Mac OSX: Life Without Windows

[swisscheesepotatochi]

in a world with jobs and apples...who needs windows and gates

[Smashedupcar300]

.....Life without walls? HARDLY. Tried saving a document? Or something literally THAT simple? Well, this happens:

ERROR Unkown access page read at address 555aaaznx667faee1/45aae.

[jstratton187]

"Life without walls" is a strange marketing concept. Surely if life were free from walls, no one would need windows?

[machrtin]

Whoa thats deep man

[clm51193]

I'm a mac and I have so much less stress.

[nuclearpsychopath]

If microsoft wants us to live without walls and fences, why do we need Windows and Gates?

[pinoyhack]

I Have virus on my pc :]]

lol.. btw i love microsoft :]] even it's sucks.

[ttk1opc]

Life without walls...ya, firewalls.

[greendayaddictions]

I'm a Linux. Eat that micro$haft!

[navyseal100]

wrong answers...dumb DOWN

[madzane94]

wtf those african dudes are soo dumb..they just sed that for the money...why pay all that for vista or win7 rtm** when u can get ubuntu..that has no stop responding messages an all that....and made in africa..lol....

i'm a pc too though

[heapacrap]

'Life Without Walls'

without walls.... theres no windows?

slogan fail.

[jorjlim]

I'm a mac, and i wear glasses!

[mariuslv]

Having seen a few of these ads, I still don't quite get it. Is the point here that "PC" equals "computer with MS Windows installed"? I see this reflected in the discussion here in the comments section as well. Is this really how native English speakers use the term? How, then, should one refer to personal computers that aren't running MS Windows? I take my hat off for the Microsoft marketing division for a seemingly successful appropriation of a generic term.

[Watcher3223]

Unfortunately, this is what happens when something becomes ubiquitous.

Windows is installed in the majority of personal computers, so people tend to generalize: PC = Windows.

It's very much how, back in the days of 8 and 16-bit gaming, video games were referred to as "the Nintendo" by the layperson unfamiliar with specifics such as Nintendo's competitors.

Nintendo's ubiquity was earned by their dominance back then and, perhaps in a lesser extent, even today because of the success of the Wii.

[Watcher3223]

As for the point of the ads, in some ways I do, but in other ways I don't.

One way to look at it is that the majority of people use Windows, and, as is the case with a large group, there will be a diverse range of people representing that group.

Yet, another point could be made that these diverse range of individuals chose to conform by using what is predominant rather than each person making their own choices.

That's how I tend to interpret it, and the message is contradictory, at best.

[Watcher3223]

Microsoft countered Apple by vaguely showing that Windows is used by the majority of computer users. It doesn't really make any other point and it doesn't address any other advantages and disadvantages of their own product and that of their competitor's.

Apple's approach, however, was specific,  attacking their competitor's product and making points about the weaknesses of a computer running Windows and how OS X offers benefits over the competition (whether it's true or not is another topic).

[sinisterstuf]

@mariuslv Actually I think it was Apple with their Mac vs. PC campaign, but you raise a good point.

[LihAniaih]

I bet this commercial was made on a Mac :3

[turnkit]

I'll bet it was made on an Avid... on a PC.

[turnkit]

There are many low-cost video editing solutions on Windows with similar functionality to FCP -- Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Ulead VideoStudio X2, Roxio Edasy Media Creator, etc. etc. etc. There are LOTS of inexpensive editing software programs on the PC. What is there on the Mac? FCP and iMovie... professionals use Avid and FCP typically -- and others when needing compositing tools. FCP is probably NOT what this edited in.

[mike0930]

to true... I- anything sucks balls, i hate the i phone, tunes, movie... the only thing that was created that i respect by apple is the I-pod

[avdude94]

that's why it's the macbook pro that's awesome, it's not i-anything.

[Firefly822]

If Microsoft says we live in a world without walls and fences, then why would we need Windows and Gates?

[Watcher3223]

Excellent point and a perfect satire to Microsoft's ad campaign.

While Apple advertised the benefits OS X offers to potential customers, Microsoft replied with a petty response and even obscurantism.

The biggest kick in the head was that Microsoft never directly contested Apple's contention.

The fact that the PC was represented by a "stereotype" wasn't the main point of the "Mac vs. PC" ads. Microsoft resorted to a straw man in their ads while using a nonsensical slogan: Life without walls.

[MrRoboto66]

I'm a PC, and I don't like Windows, Mac OS and Linux all the way. 

[dauiske79]

Im a mac, and macs are pc's to. This commercial is totally pointless!

[dazziola]

"life without walls"...1: walls provide the most basic form of security, 2: without walls you cant have windows, so essentially this ad is suggesting life without windows...how dumb are the M$ marketing team! Mac all the way...

Written on a Mac 

[ReGGaEGPRODUCTIONS]

I'm a PC. ..... Soon to be a Mac

[AverageTeenx]

I'm a PC.

[flyingmonkiesrcool]

I'm a PC

[paw3l8686]

I'm a PC :)

[asobermindisawasted1]

Mr. Bill Gates, that's not what I meant. Windows are not secure, where walls can give shelter. And it's a reference to life, and not your shitty os!

[mujdin91]

mac is even less secure then pc. its just today hacker are so bad to come up with new ideas they use old ones and they cant make money on a OS that is not even 10% on world market. microsoft has 90%.

[grantgreen23]

actually it's up to about 30% now.

[mujdin91]

yes in USA but not whole world. microsoft has about 89% leopard about 1% and linux 1%

[grantgreen23]

sorry, I meant 15%

[asobermindisawasted1]

If security is such an issue, then learn unix, acquire open/freebsd, and script kiddies will be a thing of the past.

[qwertty417]

Currently its 88.41% PC and 9.61% Mac

[relyk92]

I think a retard could come up with this commercial, why does Microsoft launch an ad campaign after waiting months of mac advertising.

[cjw4050]

i know for a fact Pharelle or whatever his name is NOT a pc, he's a musician and pretty much every music studio uses a mac since its the best computer for mixing and shit.

[RenegadeMaster07]

but roger is a pc. he's clearly a case mod using a car for the exterior.

[wartyblue55]

I find this comercial to be quite an effective comeback, but mac is still cool, and pc is just pointing out that everyone has a pc and were all geeks, but its also cool to be a geek, you follow?

[joshin13]

your gay :D

[DAL2543]

I use PCs cause macs suck dick

[derektherock42]

I'm a PC, and I only use PC's because everybody else uses them and I don't know any better!

[svtcontour]

I'm a PC and I use PCs because I dont want to be stuck on some 'deserted island'.

[raz96]

I don't mean to interupt the PC Mac war going on, but is the guy that says "I have a beard" Peter Gilmore?

[zsmith721]

A lot of PC users; not all of them look like the overweight nerdlinger that Apple uses on their ads.

[derektherock42]

I feel sorry for you if you think John Hodgeman is overweight.

[drivojulianrobotnik]

PC....Is personal computer. Macs are personal computers..... Windows,Linux,MacOS,BSD,Solari­s and NExtStep are a few I can name. Oh also amiga os,BEos and 2000 others.

MS, your an operating system. NOT A PC.

A PC is a computer that fits on your desk.

Windows is an OS that runs on a PC.

MS, nice try. This also makes apples ads fail, and shows the stupidity of the general computer user market.

[tiffelau168]

It's not "stupidity" it's ignorance.

calm down.

[magick205]

Either way, it's a step up from the Mojave and Seinfeld ads. Both of those campaigns blew up badly. Can you even find the Seinfeld ones outside of Youtube anymore? BTW, I run Redhat for work and Ubuntu for home.

[justanotherduude]

Uh . . . so I tried to open the "I'm a PC" website . . . and of course, my stupid Microsoft-running PC almost crashed.

[tiffelau168]

I'm a PC and a Mac...AND I LOVE BOTH!

fuck you haters, be glad you HAVE computers!

[elijahw06]

here here.

[tricismm]

tony and eva ftw

[yootoobnewbie]

Brilliant response. A positive ad, unlike Mac which has to try and put down to big up itself.

I am a PC and I have a beard. :D

[headed4thebottom]

I love it. :)

[dbzworld]

i'm a pc motherfucka ^^

[antimarxism]

What kind of losers analyze commercials? Do you people have a life?

[locutusufdf]

People who make billions in advertising, for one. It's interesting to discuss and analyse. It's also called being a smart consumer.

[antimarxism]

So the Mac vs PC war idiots on youtube commenting are making "billions in advertising"? No.

"Smart consumers" analyze the specs and get solid reports and feedback on the products. "Smart consumers" aren't influenced by 30-sec ads.

If you find commercials interesting, you may want to get out of the house more, or turn off the TV.

[darkmetroid17]

This ad is a minute long.

[antimarxism]

About the length of your attention span, idiot.

[songthirtyone]

hahaha! good one!

[clovismcpony]

Terrible campaign. Takes the annoyance factor of the Mac campaign, amplifies it, then applies it to itself. Does the complete opposite of what was intended.

[tuesdaythefifth]

LMAO .. now Microsoft is copying the mac ads too .. and again they miss the point ..

[35g70]

No, they make the Mac adds look immature. They also show how much better PC's are then macs because you have "life without walls" meaning millions of free programs you can use and you can use whatever hardware you want with macs? Nope you just pay more for cheap hardware.

[drivojulianrobotnik]

35g70, 1/2 of those free apps are crap.

Hardware is a different matter.

[35g700]

ok 1/2 out of millions, thats still more then mac has.

[pickledbrothers]

Is that Charisma Carpenter at 0:31?

[beatlesalbum]

I run on 1.6 dual core and 2 gig ram and run vista fine. so whats the problem here?

[Mahewston]

I run on oxygen. I'm not a PC.

[lakerdesi]

Very nice commercial ! Nice reply to the stupid lame ass Mac commercials.

[Krim123]

Take that apple!!

[johwinston]

From reviews that I have heard, they made it seem like Pharrell was going to be a more prominent part of this commercial. Oh well - it caught my attention and I like it alot.

[enkibumbu]

Shrill and defensive marketing campaign.

[gernblandman]

Wow, they took Apple's fun pokes at the Windows Operating system and made it a racial issue. How totally wrong.

[mevans2516]

Mac ads are still smarter and better but its nice to see Microsoft trying to change the image of PC's to the general public