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#1 2008-08-21 3:04 pm
Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
So MS is finally fighting back.
The ads will star Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates himself. (Let's just see Steve Jobs replace "Mac" in the GAM ads.)
They will be created by Crispin Porter + Bogusky. If that name sounds familiar, they are responsible for some pretty good campaigns like BK's "Subservient Chicken" (Among others) and Volkswagen's infamous "V-Dub" ads with Coen Bros alumni Peter Stormare.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/126 … page=0%2C0
This should be interesting to see MS' reaction to Apple's all out campaign against their OS and Apple's inevitable followup referencing.
Should be very entertaining to say the least.
On a lighter note, Apple released four new ads recently.
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
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#2 2008-08-21 3:14 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
It's about time.
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#3 2008-08-21 4:10 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
Jasoco wrote:
On a lighter note, Apple released four new ads recently.
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/
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#4 2008-08-21 4:31 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
Sienfeld (the character) was a big time Mac user.
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
MS should hire his cousin Geoffrey.
I understand he's much more successful.
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#7 2008-08-21 6:05 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
...or Lloyd Braun
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#8 2008-08-21 6:21 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
[Estelle] Oh that Lloyd Braun![/Estelle]
when surrounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
and the women come out to cut up what remains,
just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
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#9 2008-08-21 6:50 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
Mr. T wrote:
Sienfeld (the character) was a big time Mac user.
You have to wonder if Microsoft will arrange to have the various Macs on the set of "Seinfeld" digitally replaced on the DVD sets.
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#10 2008-08-22 11:34 am
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
That's Microsoft corporate mentality for you. "Gee, this John Hodgman and Justin Long thing is really making us look [air quotes]un-cool[/air quotes]. What are the kids these days watching? How about that Sein-feld thing... Someone get me this Sein-feld on the telephone."
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#11 2008-08-22 12:48 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
Just for the sake of linking, there's another thread on this in Unplugged.
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#12 2008-08-22 1:01 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
Well I've got my two cents in both threads however this gets combined, closed, or otherwise altered.
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#14 2008-08-25 6:17 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
So they are going to copycat the ads? Wasn't the OS enough? Do they have to rub it into their own face?
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#15 2008-08-26 11:09 pm
Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
Who knows. We won't find out exactly what the ads will be like until they air.
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#16 2008-08-27 9:56 am
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I await thier airing with much anticipation.
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#17 2008-08-27 11:04 am
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
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So they are going to copycat the ads? Wasn't the OS enough? Do they have to rub it into their own face?
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#18 2008-09-04 9:43 pm
Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
I just saw one, wasn't impressed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afR5J7eskno
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#19 2008-09-04 10:13 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
I thought it was a good ad, it was very seinfeld-y.
I don't see how it helps Vista out any though.
What is the difference between Vista and OSX?
- Microsoft employees are excited about OSX.
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#20 2008-09-04 11:12 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
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I just saw one, wasn't impressed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afR5J7eskno
I saw it today during the Giants game. It's not great, but it's not terrible.
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#21 2008-09-04 11:13 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
I saw it at the bar. My wife was like "What the smurf is going on on the TV?!?!" There was no sound. I don't feel like I missed anything.
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#22 2008-09-04 11:36 pm
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
For a second, I read that as: the bar fell silent over your wife's (particularly loud) comment... Then, I figured you must've been talking about the TV.
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#23 2008-09-05 1:36 am
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
ScifiterX wrote:
I just saw one, wasn't impressed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afR5J7eskno
If I had stumbled upon that video through any other vector but this thread I would have just assumed it was a particularly lucid McCain campaign commercial.
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#24 2008-09-05 6:25 am
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
it was a bit weird and kinda funny. they talk about the future being delicious, suggesting that what they have out now, isn't.
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#25 2008-09-05 6:33 am
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Re: Microsoft fights back against "Get a Mac" with... Jerry Seinfeld?
Donkey Butter wrote:
it was a bit weird and kinda funny. they talk about the future being delicious, suggesting that what they have out now, isn't.
Well, they've already gone from "Vista is the greatest thing ever!" to "Vista's not really as bad as everybody says." The next logical step is "Hey! It can only get better from here!"
I'm not sure that ad really said anything, tho. Wait...strike that. I'm sure it said nothing. 
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