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Bad directing, poor timing and too many jokes that fell flat. Like what did the size 10 mention mean? He said it twice but it seemed to mean nothing and had no real response from Bill. If it means the size of his wang might also be big then I'd say it failed completely. Bill's an okay guy but he sucks at acting. They needed a more distractions, movement, to get away from the fact that Bill can't act. I could hear a pin drop when I watched most of it and that left Bill and the actor guy carrying the whole add. Whoever wrote the dialogue needs shooting too. The should have gone for something more funky and with the times. I hated the Mac adverts too so no user preference there.

Its so funny how you people complain! What would you rather have, a typical borring commerical? Atleast the first time I saw it, I was entertained! I cant say that about most commercials!

BILL GATES IS THE MAN END OF STORY

The majority of people will not like the commercials, because the majority of people do not like Bill Gates (i.e. they are biased, and their opinion doesn't matter).

I think it's good to see Gates do something different, and there's nothing wrong with trying to compete with the Mac ads. Television commercials are rarely funny, since they get in the way of the material we're actually trying to watch.

The main problem with it is that it doesn't have much of a message. The only message I got from it is that Microsoft has exciting plans in its pants. Well, so does Apple, and so does any other company. They don't convey why we should be excited about it too. In fact, Bill doesn't seem any extra excited about it himself.

Haha, they are agreeing in public that vista sucks!!

I like the commercial too. I think its about time Microsoft attempted some humor  and mind you its not as funny as some of the Mac commercials but to see Bill Gates shake his butt did make me chuckle.

Like you said, its a matter of personal opinion.

It was nothing particularly brilliant, but I liked it...and so did most of my friends who saw it. I enjoyed the fact that Bill poked fun at himself with the widely circulated "mug shot" photo on his discount membership card, and I think he's done a pretty good job of appearing not to take himself too seriously, which is refreshing. After all, the guy is mainly a massively smart techno-geek who figured out how to make a fortune off designing marketing operating system software and applications, something no one would have dreamed about 25+ years ago. And, like most ubergeeks, he was once quite socially inept, but seems to have got the hang of people skills a bit more over the years (I'm sure Melinda coached him a bit...and you sure can't complain about the billions they now pump into the B&M Gates Foundation). It's a sort of brain-free default philosophy to always complain about how rich people are evil blah blah blah, but IMHO, I honestly believe that Gates has always felt it was more about the technology and his vision, for better or worse, and the money was priority 2. And I think the guy HAS made computing easier and more accessible to millions of people, even with whatever flaws MS software may have. And yeah, some people have gone out of business or claim to have been screwed by Bill and/or MS, but to a great degree, that's part of the capitalism game. I'm not a mindless Bill Gates fack, just trying to keep an open mind and I don't think he's a bad person at all. And I think this ad is more about trying to "friendly up" his and his company's image than to sell any one specific product.

I feel like the commercial is 5 minutes long, there is no point to it, & it's not funny..... this is my impression..... Bill Gates is cheap and doesn't know much about shoes, one of the most important pieces of clothing you buy.....

To me this means that Microsoft no longer understands the customer "base" and when your computer should be fast enough to run Vista it seems "small" & slow.  You need a processor and RAM one size bigger than you think.  When you have the right computer you still need to take showers (clean it up & repair it) daily to make it work right??????????????

It also shows how irrelevant Microsoft is becoming..... they just don't get it.

It would have been better if they had Jeff Dunham and Achmed the Dead Terrorist impersonating Bill Gates..... atl least I would have laughed....... even if it didn't make any sense....

"I've got an idea for the commercial. NOTHIN'.Everybody is doing something, we'll do nothing."

That commercial is really funny.  You'll probably have to watch the whole series of commercials to get it though.  I personally hate microsoft products, but I enjoyed the commercial.  Looks like Bill Gates has a sense of humor enough to rip on himself.

It's Seinfeld stupid! You net bloggers are so out of touch with the real world. Get up and go outside every once in awhile and see what's all about..

I thought it was ok. I don't think I'll be believing any Apple/MAC ads after I got to use a mac and experienced hype over substance.

Hey, the ad had Seinfeld and Gates in it, I'm happy!

This is why its not good to be surrounded by "yes men."  I thought it was a bit funny, but all the hype leading up to it made it seem like it was going to be the best commercial ever.