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  digitalextremist

  10 months ago

  No, no Jacob. Don't blame the Ad agency. I want to hang them too, don't worry, but think about this: Microsoft approved the Ad. Bill Gates was IN it.
  
  In the evolutionary conceptions of life on planet Earth that Darwin postulates with great personal confidence, Microsoft is sending a clear message:
  
  Not fit to survive.
  
  So I love the Ad. Some day very soon, Microsoft will not exist. This is so certain that we might as well start celebrating it.
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  jacobmorgan

  10 months ago

  haha good point. i suppose darwin would already tell microsoft to start packing it in.
  
  a world without microsoft oh my, then google will run the world :)
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  digitalextremist

  10 months ago

  Not quite! There is an invisible hand at work in software and it does not need to be acknowledged to be in power. The true guides of software have reverently remained in the periphery and will intervene together or one by one to accomplish their ends, not necessarily being noticed.
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  jacobmorgan

  10 months ago

  im assuming it's the same invisible hand that is at work in economics, good 'ol adam smith.
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  digitalextremist

  10 months ago

  Not sure, us programmers often don't get out much, we create economies but then again, teenagers have babies.
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  jacobmorgan

  10 months ago

  ha! clever fellow you are
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  Josh Peters

  10 months ago

  You broke my brain. I don't even know what happened in that commercial it just... it just hurts.
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  jacobmorgan

  10 months ago

  kinda makes you want to take a few advil doesn't it? i swear im craving a churro though!
  
  thanks for commenting and reading josh!
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  diva

  10 months ago

  um, yeah, I'm with you on this one Jacob. WTF?
  
  Being an Aussie, I had no idea what a Churro was, but I'm guessing it's that thing on a stick that everyone is eating!
  Also, being in the marketing game, this is just a shocking advert...
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  jacobmorgan

  10 months ago

  hehe im an aussie too, born in melbourne but now live in the states. dont have the accent some im bitter! that was a churro yes :) and that's about the only thing worth watching the add for.
  
  thanks for reading and commenting!
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  Brian Ellefritz

  10 months ago

  I hear if you play the commercial backwards you hear "I bury John". Uh oh, I just revealed I'm a Baby Boomer. Rats. All seriousness aside, I had heard the pans of this commercial but think the actual experience lagged below my worst expectations. "Churro?" was a funny line though. They should have cut there.
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  Eric Werner

  10 months ago

  That's a remarkably good point. If they would have cut the commercial right there and then provided the remainder of the commercial in sections it would have been better. It would have still sucked. But it would have been better, created more interest.
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  jacobmorgan

  10 months ago

  lol! funny guy. the ad was definitely sub par. it's almost as though microsoft is a bit scared to do something different, i mean is that ad really how they want to show off their products?
  
  agree, they should have cut after the first 20 seconds... "churro?" *CUT*
  
  thanks for reading and commenting!
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  Eric Werner

  10 months ago

  Jacob,
  
  Thanks for exposing this swill - I've heard people say that this is their response to the Apple commercials.. To show that they're 'cool' too. It would have been better to say nothing.
  
  I saw the commercial and I must say that I thought it was quite good compared to that other load of crap they pulled. Where they introduced Vista to a few dozen people claiming it was a new operating system and then somehow magically they found that it was easy to use - then at the end they unveiled that they had actually been using vista the whole time. I'll find it for you if you haven't seen it. Quite embarrassed for them
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  jacobmorgan

  10 months ago

  this ad is definitely not a good response to the apple commercial. i actually haven't seen that vista commercial you refer to but would be curious to see it if you find it.
  
  very curious to see what the next couple of ads are going to look like. let's hope nothing like the first!
  
  thanks again for commenting and reading
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  Eric Werner

  9 months ago

  It took me a minute to look it up and it turns out that it's not a commercial, actually it's just an interactive site - here is an article on Adage that describes it. If I were going to make a bad marketing compendium (which might be a good idea) This would definitely be in it! Their basic message is
  
  'Vista - it's not as bad as you've probably heard!'
  
  http://adage.com/adages/post?article_id=130003
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  jacobmorgan

  9 months ago

  hmm very interesting. i will check it out right now, thanks for sharing!
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  Ari Herzog

  10 months ago

  It's too quiet. There are too many moments of silence, as if the viewer is supposed to laugh. I smiled during the bit when Bill Gates held out his membership card, but otherwise stared dumbfounded at the odd commercial.
  
  I await to see the Nielsen ratings.
  
  On a side note, what does it mean when I can't hear any volume by playing the video above, but I hear it perfectly on YouTube?
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  jacobmorgan

  10 months ago

  hmm not sure why the sound didn't work for you, i just checked it out. sorry about that but at least you were able to hear it on youtube :)
  
  im curious to see the nielsen ratings as well, can;t imagine them being very good though.
  
  thanks for reading and commenting!
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