My Response to Microsoft-Seinfeld ad

Microsoft have issues and need help. I think the decline in Microsoft's popularity is fairly well summed up by their latest ad featuring Jerry Seinfeld.

Watch my new video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeZXs_hEH58

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[robx0r]

Strange. 10 million dollars for an ad that was shit, yet everybody is talking about it. The best ads are the ones everybody talks about.

Turn off UAC retard. For being tech support you sure are bad at computing.

What Microsoft is doing is trying to change their image through advertisements, which is a completely legitimate marketing strategy.

[BoredOfScience]

Why should I have to turn UAC off? If that's what people good at computing do, why did Microsoft even include it in the freaking first-place?! If you recommend turning it off, then you acknowledge there is an issue and Microsoft are to blame.

Just because people are talking about an ad, doesn't mean its going to be driving sales. SALES are the ultimate guide to an ad's success, not talk.

[gimelnus]

Uh, Seinfeld didn't get paid $10 million for just this one ad. He's getting paid $10 million for the entire ad campaign, which will be comprised of several ads.

[BoredOfScience]

You mean the two ads before the campaign got canned? Wow, $5 million an ad makes things so much better...

As I said, Microsoft could have done so much better for so much less, as evidenced by their new series of "I'm a PC" ads

[riddler182]

seinfeld is a legend

[BoredOfScience]

How many six-year-olds do you know who are buying new PCs? Microsoft's Market isn't kids, its adults. They are the ones with the money, and they are the ones they need to appeal to.

Do you really think Ronald McDonald spruiking Windows Vista will sell PCs?

[venuecam]

Yeah like how McDonald's tries to look professional. Wrong. The younger the market you appeal to, the more loyal you are to that brand long term cos you instictively trust the name. Older people are more sceptical and less likely to be swayed.

[venuecam]

You can leave it on OR turn it off. If you were tech literate enough it's a no-brainer. If you have no idea about tech and bought your new PC to simply use the web or for word processing etc. then you shouldn't need to know anything backend. No-one forces buyers to go for Windows.

Ads don't drive sales. Market presence and POS drive sales. If all you ever see are ads (tv, print and in-store) for Windows then you're more likely to buy it. That also includes word of mouth or "talk".

[venuecam]

I wouldn't give you $0.10c to make that ad. You can't even light your own video.

Btw. when you integrate an OS withone hundred other manufacturers (of which the hardware is not made by your company) then security is the main feature. Yeah it sucks Ok-ing everything but that's Microsoft. If you don't like it then by all means buy a Mac.

[callmeshane303]

I am - lots of it.

And not a Micropoop Pee Cee in sight.

[robx0r]

Have fun using anything with Flash.

[robx0r]

I recommend turning it off if it bothers you. It doesn't bother me, and it doesn't bother a lot of people. You seem like a Mac kind of guy. Have Apple tell you what is best and make it impossible to deviate from what Apple tells you.

Measuring sales created by advertising campaigns is near impossible. The next best thing to measure is viewership.

And for being a college student, you have piss poor grammar.