Did Microsoft just jump the shark?
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Thursday, September 04, 2008
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cheers,
Ted :)
Oh, I get it... it's an operating system marketing campaign about... nothing. Do I win a prize? ;-)
jd/adobe
I hope to god that is a parody. I just don't get anything about that commercial. Is Microsoft really that out of touch?
i mean, i wanna eat my computer.
I didn't think it was possible that Microsoft would release something worse then Vista. They just did it with that commercial.
Maybe they are lowering expectations so they can exceed them later?
They paid Seinfeld $10M for that?
Expect to see this commercial all over Bill Oreilly and Golden Girls re-runs, cause it certainly ain't meant for my demographic.
Is it just me or dose his picture in the Shoe Circus card look an awful lot like his mugshot (http://akaldankehendak.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/gates_mug_shot.jpg) :P
What the...
A metaphor for Vista user experience?
Click play then wonder what's going on for a couple of minutes.
Eats your life!
Although I understood nothing heads up to MS for this! It's certainly better than any of the overhyped pseudo-I'm-A-Hip-iPod-Wearer Apple commercials I saw so far!
They did jump the shark, but they're about to be eaten by the Snow Leopard. ;-)
Wasn't there always a Mac in the corner of Seinfeld's apartment? I wonder how he got Vista to run on that machine?
People, chill out. Looks to me like a couple of well known people just having some fun. You'd complain if Gates came on saying he has the cure for cancer and was giving it away free. People just bash MS and Gates because they are the most successful software company ever. Success is made out to be evil by the under-achievers. If it was Jobs instead of Gates, you'd be commenting on how funny it was. Without Gates and MS, we would be no where near the advancements we have today.
Sorry to disagree but without Microsoft we would be much further along, less 20-30 cloned products.
Ted :)
"People just bash MS and Gates because they are the most successful software company ever. Success is made out to be evil by the under-achievers."
Yeah, that must be it.
I'm not here to bash Microsoft. In fact, I've been using Vista for the past month while my MBP is being repaired (don't worry, there's nothing wrong with it, there couldn't be ;)). There's really nothing that bad about it. But wow, that commercial was awful. A lame answer to the Mac vs PC ads (which haven't gotten too be a little much on their own)
I laughed at it :)
Ted, your posture around Windows is actually very hypocritical :) in that your company has made billions off of Windows. Majority if your CS3 sales for example have come from Windows Vista, Flash Player got its "98% success" because of being embedded into Windows?
I dunno, I think you're being overly aggressive towards Microsoft here and to push the agenda that we would of been better off without it smacks of double standard as you'd not be employed with Adobe right now if it had of been that case.
But hey, why let the facts get in the way of a good old fashion anti-Microsoft propaganda post :)
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Scott Barnes
Microsoft.
Scott,
Are you stating the a majority of the world's designers are on Windows?
Please put the Kool-aide down.
Ted :)
"Sorry to disagree but without Microsoft we would be much further along, less 20-30 cloned products."
Uh, hmmmm... IPOD (although I do like the interface) took a very open and standards based mp3 player and cloned it, but then added the nice little feature of making it proprietary. Face it, if MS would have done the same thing, there would be flaming blogs all over the place.
Mac probably is a better OS, I don't doubt it. But without MS that nice $2k macpro would still be 4.
Face it, Apple makes some of the most closed and proprietary systems around. If MS made you pay $100 to develop software for their phones you know you would blast them. Apple does MANY of the same things that MS gets flamed for, but as long as it come in that nice smooth, white, no sharp cornered package then it is okay.
Don't get me wrong, if Jobs was running my company I'd bet on its success. But the same thing for Gates.
And yes, jealousy is one of the biggest reasons of MS and Gates bashing. Whether you believe it or not, whether you are one of the jealous ones or not, it is a fact of life. People are jealous of other that have worked hard and become very successful so they try to break them down. If people put as much effort toward their own careers as they do trying to break others down, they would be one that everyone is jealous about.
And for the record, I think the mac/pc ads are darn funny and would not have any issue if I had to move to a Mac. In fact I thought about it, but I have software that only runs on Windows that I don't want to shell out another $1k for to swap to Mac.
I found the ad to be really funny. Seinfeld gets a lot of dough because no one else could have pulled off this skit. It's a funny commercial and, aside from brand building (repairing), that is all there is to it. Who cares what computer Jerry had in his apartment ... you can't argue with 8 figures!
Microsoft jumped the shark when they released Vista. Many of us have known for decades how bad Microsoft products are, but Vista is so incredibly bad that it opened the eyes of the ordinary person who until recently didn't know any better. The new TV commercial merely confirms it.
The commercial is cute and funny in a nonsensical, almost python-esque fashion, so kudos to MS for finally thinking outside of the box. But I think it does underscore the fact that MS is trying to be cool and cute way way too late in the game to rescue their OS's abysmal performance. And yeah, MS totally jumped the shark with Vista. I don't think this confirms it necessarily, but I smirk when I think of the parallels between the confusion one is left with at the end of this commercial and the confusion one is left with trying to do anything useful with Vista. :)
Scott, you're totally reading too much into this. I don't think Ted commenting on an ad campaign for Micorsoft's new "edible computing" :) has anything to do with Adobe supposedly "owing" their success to Microsoft. That's like saying "don't make fun of me cause you owe me, big-time dude." I can see how one could construe this as an "Adobe attack on MS," but I don't think Adobe has their people on that tight a leash. Lighten up.