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Microsoft has hired comedian Jerry Seinfeld to anchor a $300 million dollar advertising campaign designed to burnish the image of its struggling Windows Vista franchise, according to the Wall Street Journal.
...Seinfeld will be paid $10 million for the work and that the campaign will launch on September 4th.
...[M$] is desperate to counter widely popular Apple ads that personify Vista as a bumbling, middle-manager type while portraying Apple’s Leopard OS as a cool hipster.
Newer… Hipper.... Slicker… represented by a 54 y.o. has-been from the 1980’s who’s funny about nothing...
NTTAWWT…
Seinfeld gets $10 million for his trouble. Now he’ll be able to buy a few more Ferarris.
It says a lot about the product when they have to hire a comedian to pitch it.
It’s a bit late, but the ideal guy would have been Rodney Dangerfield.
Posted by ZZMike on 08/21/08 at 09:39 AMMicrosoft? Out of touch? Never!!
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