Microsoft Gates/Seinfeld ad
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Microsoft Announcement Tomorrow: No More Seinfeld Ads
http://valleywag.com/5051455/mic…Remember those awful Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Well, now you can forget them. Microsoft flacks are desperately dialing reporters to spin them about "phase two" of the ad campaign — a phase, due to be announced tomorrow, which will drop the aging comic altogether. Microsoft's version of the story: Redmond had always planned to drop Seinfeld. The awkward reality: 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. Update: In a phone call, Waggener Edstrom flack Frank Shaw confirms that Microsoft is not going on with Seinfeld, and echoes his underlings' spin that the move was planned. There is the "potential to do other things" with Seinfeld, which Shaw says is still "possible." He adds: "People would have been happier if everyone loved the ads, but this was not unexpected."
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There goes $300mil
- mia_free0
BILL GATES ROBOT?
- showpony0
if your best product is 'vista' and cloud computing is slowly taking over ms office, this is a pretty good approach. ambiguity.
- mia_free0
WHY MUSTT GATES DO ROBOT?!?!?
- sputnik20
the ads sucked
- lobstarr0
shoulda put 300million back into the p.o.s software.
- akrokdesign0
i hope they didn't pull those 300 million out of wamu.
- what ever bank they got. they have to be pissed. lol.akrokdesign
- Llyod0
anybody remember the episode of pinky and the brain where they take control of bill gates' body?
- powertoni0
three
hundred
million.
Gets you that?
- autoflavour0
meanwhile, seinfeld makes out like a bandit.. and goes back home to his nice new imac