Windows Vista TV Commercials

I love my new vista!

I’m waiting a long time before I use Vista. Probably until my next computer, which will likely come with it. By then, all the kinks will be ironed out. Well, I’m waiting at least 6 months, if not a year. I feel fine with XP and I dont want to take a chance right now.

Still laughing here. At first I thought it was a commercial for hallucinating seniors learning how to talk to computers, but then I kept seeing Vista popping up on this “infomercial” they are showing on Comedy Central.

Speaking as a Linux guy, I have never laughed so hard. As a consultant for a “Windows-empowered” business however, I would have raised hell before this mess was ever put forth into the public light. A PR mistake would be a kind label at this point. Funny, but in a retarded-drunk-guy sort of way.

[...] So what can Microsoft do to get people talking about Vista, which has many attractive features and far better security? How about spending $500-million on advertising, which makes the $150,000 or so that Microsoft spent sending free laptops to bloggers look like a drop in the bucket. Over the next little while, it is going to be impossible to avoid Vista. There will TV commercials, billboards, magazine, newspaper ads and public transit vehicles featuring Vista. Even Bill Gates is getting into the action by making appearances all over the place, including The Daily Show. [...]

[...] • Windows Vista TV Commercials – Chris Pirillo says “Make them stop!” [...]

[...] This post by Chris Pirillo is fantastic. In particular, this comment well represents what’s going on:My god, even the “PCâ€? in Apple’s Get a Mac commercials does a better job at representing what your product does.ROFL :-)Technorati Tags: chris pirillo, luca filigheddu, apple, windows vista commercials [...]

[...] Chris Pirillo points out that the TV commericals are beyond bad, and I can only agree with that, but, according to the Times, this is part of a 500.000.000$ campaign. Apparently, Microsoft bought an hour on Comedy Central to espouse the beauty of Vista. I guess the “Wow” is  indeed now… [...]

I thought the whole thing was pretty fun. I don’t watch TV much and when I do I’m usually disappointed. Last night when I went to find The Daily Show I came across the “Person” special and enjoyed it immensely. I also thought the site was interesting but maybe that’s just me.

chris why not screen capture the event of annoyance you are having so I can better understand your GUI issue thanks / and when is the next show have I been missing something it will be two month so. I love my new vista too

You think those commercials are bad, look at Microsofts efforts for plugging Windows 386 back in the eighties, I find this quite disturbing:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239&q=windows+386

Windows Vista TV Commercials DUDE! MAKE THEM STOP! SERIOUSLY, THESE ARE EMBARASSINGLY BAD. I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO USE MY CAPS LOCK KEY TO CONVEY JUST HOW MUCH OF A WASTE OF MONEY THIS WAS. I’m sorry. I’m watching Comedy Central right now, with Windows Vista (apparently)

Ben, how is the DRM treating you so far?

Wow. Those websites don’t make any sense at all. At least they take forever to load.

http://www.clearification.com has to be the most confusing thing I have ever seen, I really don’t know what is going on?

“HOW MUCH OF A WASTE OF MONEY THIS WAS”

Except ‘money’ in the world of Microsoft means something quite different to what’s in your pocket in the real world.

Unlike the rest of us, the company are able to throw unimaginably large amounts at projects with NO risk of downside (such as Chapter 11 or complaints from shareholders) the result often being - as in this case - utter bollox, devoid of good taste, intelligence, accessibility or fitness for purpose.

The in-house Microsoft myth of ‘playing the long game’ - funding loss-making products thru’ to Rev 3 by which time they’ll supposedly be really finely tuned and have found their place in the market - has *never* worked. It just encourages the sort of sloppy-thinking-without-accountability we’re seeing in this case (”after the dinosaurs, *anything* has to look better, so go for it”), and which was best illustrated by the Great Longhorn Reset.

It’s a curse. Because who needs joined-up management when you’re never at risk of going broke?

sunk a little as a I read the post. It was a rather negative collection of snippets. I guess I could understand. Waiting in the cold for the event to start wouldn’t put me in the right frame of mind either. Next up I saw this from Chris Prilillo: “Windows Vista TV Commercials — DUDE! MAKE THEM STOP! SERIOUSLY” Hmmm. (Chris: I won’t link to the Clearification.com campaign either. It’s depressing. I know that’s the idea. It’s supposed to be. That’s why it’s supposed to be funny. But I’m not in the mindset. I don’t think others want to be either with a new

, can anyone explain to me what this Clearification marketing campaign has to do with running out and getting Windows Vista? It’s a really long animation done by a comedian that takes a lot of time to sit through. I’m with Chris Pirillo on this effort by Microsoft to spend part of it’s half a billion dollar marketing budget on the Visa launch. In a world where the scarcest commodity is rapidly becoming the ATTENTION of one’s potential customers, why do companies insist on sponsoring marketing efforts that takes

Look, Chris. I’ll try to be fair here. You look at Microsoft’s efforts through Apple-tinted glasses. Of course you’ll hate everything about them! But of course, you’re a blogger so you can put anything you want out on the web. Personally, I just find it so dishonest.

BTW, I caught the video of Gates with Jon Stewart on comedycentral.com and it just reinforced how I feel regarding Bill Gates vis-a-vis Steve Jobs. Gates is approachable and down-to-earth. Jobs is an insufferable egomaniac. The more I read the posts of Macheads on the internet the more I believe that Windows PCs attract people like the former and Macs attract the latter.

s how I view how Microsoft operates, they are like that fat kid at the public pool who keeps jumping in cannonball style and that’s no fun for the rest of us. Proof of this is their cannonball style of  advertising which apparently people are not finding too appealing. Apple needs to tread very carefully. Yes its important to get your brand out there but just make sure that as you’re gaining in popularity you dont end up being that fat kid constantly doing cannonballs into the pool.

[...] This lack of excitement is likely why the first day punditry was mostly devoted to Microsoft’s $500 million Vista Marketing blitz. Yesterday, I was unaccountably pacific at the prospect, but that was before Microsoft unleashed their stable of clueless viral marketers: DUDE! MAKE THEM STOP! SERIOUSLY, THESE ARE EMBARASSINGLY BAD. I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO USE MY CAPS LOCK KEY TO CONVEY JUST HOW MUCH OF A WASTE OF MONEY THIS WAS. [...]

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Chris Pirillo: Vista Ads and Webisodes “Horrible Waste”

Very funny, especially the first episode. You gotta love Microsoft for not taking themselves too seriously.

M$ once again proves their superiority to Apple.

WOW!

These add sites really put the ****** in mentally challenged.

What else Microsoft could say?

We’ve got same stuff Apple got five years go, exactly dentical stuff, but we innovationed it 100% selves cause that what we good at innovation OK?

This man our exceptionest leader see information please to do on new operating system featurets. You be blow way by smooth presentashion stuff.

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[...] Chris Pirillo thinks Vista promotion is atrociously bad. DUDE! MAKE THEM STOP! SERIOUSLY, THESE ARE EMBARASSINGLY BAD. I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO USE MY CAPS LOCK KEY TO CONVEY JUST HOW MUCH OF A WASTE OF MONEY THIS WAS. [...]

[...] Microsoft made an appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” It was a fun piece and Bill Gates handled it well, I think. I think it was a wise move and humanized the new release for all of us. All in all, he was a good sport. Then we had this “interesting” concept of marketing Vista’s release. Whatever, it’s Microsoft’s money to waste, I suppose. Then again, Pirillo has an offer that, after watching the same thing on TV he did, I think may be a better choice for Microsoft’s next release? Anyway, moving on. [...]

message(s). As for the Clearification site, I can only guess that I’m the target audience and that they have overestimated my attention span and underestimated my IQ, if only be a few points. Microsoft: you have developed a cool new product. This is not the way to market it. Maybe it doesn’t matter, since the entire known universe has already bought into Windows, but I can’t see how these commercials will make people want to upgrade. You have undersold Vista

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