Microsoft and Seinfield, LOL

I am shocked! shocked! to learn that Microsoft’s ill-conceived and poorly-received advertising pitch featuring Jerry Seinfeld has been recognized as a dismal failure. Boy, who would ever have suspected that this might not work out? *raises hand*

From the above-linked Valleywag entry:

The ads only reminded us how out of touch with consumers Microsoft is — and that Bill Gates’s company has millions of dollars to waste on hiring a has-been funnyman to keep him company.

Not bad, but let’s go to Valleywag commenter Baroness to properly frame this bit of fail:

They were just horrible, horrible ads. Unfunny 90’s nostalgia for dull white guys. And hideously condescending to boot: Bill and Jerry going to live with “normal people”. In other words, the joke was their insane wealth, so it’s meant to be funny for them to play ping-pong with the Poors.

This is how you rebrand your operating system in 2008? For reals?
Dreadful.

Can hardly wait to see what lame sequel Microsoft comes up with next. Oh - I guess we don’t have to wait.

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