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Microsoft announcement tomorrow: No more Seinfeld ads!
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.

Ok, say what you will about the ads: Sure they were

  1. About nothing
  2. Weird
  3. Didn’t sell anything?

But what they did was create buzz.. There are only a HANDFUL of commercials that as I am forwarding through my DVR that I will stop and watch. Previously, only the Apple ads, however lately these new Microsoft Ads finally got this distinction as well.

What these ads did, was get people talking about Microsoft again, I mean think about it — for some reason it is **NEWS** that a company is now longer going to be making an AD. That means the ADs were WORKING.

Oh, for those who follow me on twitter, I do not LOVE VISTA. (But Mojave kicks ass)