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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 22 August 2008 | |
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Anyway, it seems that Microsoft is going to drop $300 million on the campaign, and that company chairman Bill Gates will appear alongside Seinfeld.Featured Whitepaper
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Maybe it would have been wiser to bring that change into being first? Ballmer also said the company must "Drive end user excitement for our products." That makes sense, as end user excitement has been in relatively short supply in recent years, and the long midnight queues for new versions of Windows have been largely superseded by queues for the opening of new Apple Stores. But can someone explain to me how ads featuring a comedian that peaked a decade ago is going to provide excitement? Couldn't Microsoft have found someone more 2008 than 1998? |
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