No PS3 is better talk, no debating the consoles or anything like that.  I am just seriously curious as to what any of you more in tune with the MS brand think this could possibly be for.  I mean its a little like the Mac vs PC commercials (in that its two guys talking ) but there's no clear message like in the mac/PC commercials (that message being Macs are cool, Dorks use PCs and vista doesn't work).  On the other hand if my computer did produce cake if I loaded MS software on it, I'd seriously consider the purchase (see the end of the commercial).

   Any thoughts as to the goal?

   Oh and this campaign cost 300 million to run...THREE HUNDRED MILLION!!! so there had to a be a point somewhere, thats more then 95% of companies make in an entire year of sales.

I compare M$/Apple competition to Coke/Pepsi.

Pepsi spends all of its commercial time downing Coke while Coke doesn't care and just makes some crazy CGI commercials.

Seinfeld in this commercial goes along with that whole 'it is about nothing' concept. I find the commercial intriguing.

That total includes their entire initiative to turn around public perception of M$.  This includes putting M$ Gurus in Best Buys and Targets.  It also covers all other advertisements.

LOL @ Bill Gates' mugshot

well. it does what all commercials should be doing; it get's you thinking. which is a good thing.

   If MS pulled a pepsi and had a video of Britney Spears...or I guess in these days Jessica Alba dancing half naked singing as their commerical leading up to a 360 exploding in red white and blue stars I would find that it makes more sense then this one did.  

   Maybe they're still trying to make Bill Gates more likable after those videos of him testifying during the monopoly hearings?  Even still....300 million is a LOT of money even by Pepsi/Coke standards.

   It kinda works, the Pepsi thing, Pepsi makes more money worldwide then coke now by a pretty healthy margin.

I giggled

I don't get it....

What Seinfeld SHOULD have been saying was "So what's the DEAL with these Apple guys? No, seriously, I mean, they (random insult toward Apple) and they (point out a small flaw with their computers), while Microsoft's PCs blablabla! I just don't get it!"

I thought it was funny, but that's about it. Perhaps that's what they're aiming for? If you buy vista you'll laugh...(I cried)

     If anything can reduce a grown man to tears its trying to get Vista to run correctly.  I get MORE blue screens of death (the RAM dump before a crash is blue on Vista) then I ever imagined getting on XP.  It's like evolution in reverse, Darwin would be baffled.

   "What's the deal with reverse evolution in Vista?"

what...the...fuck...