Comments on: What is Microsoft Thinking? Some Thoughts on the Microsoft Commercials

By: Penguin

Penguin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:24:22 +0000

go linux!

By: Pwak

Pwak — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:17:46 +0000

I’m a bloody PC

By: Guy Haim

Guy Haim — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:23:57 +0000

Hi. I’m a PC 2. Thought those ads were brilliant even though a bit late. The ads position PC as a lovable alternative for the way to far fashionable and cool Mac position.

By: Chetan Venkatesh

Chetan Venkatesh — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:10:34 +0000

I’m a mainframe .. I’m back and I’m going to run all your PCs and MACs in virtual containers and the world will be right as rain again.

By: STIX NIX HIX PIX

STIX NIX HIX PIX — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:13:48 +0000

I kind of liked the Gates/Seinfeld one too. Guess I’m not as sophisticated as all you bloggers and pundits. I need a new laptop.

By: Renato Targa

Renato Targa — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:22:05 +0000

If you were in Brazil, like me, you would see a different set of results due to localization of the PageRank and popularity of traffic. But Apple’s still have the first spot (the second is a popular Brazilian blogger who writes about advertisement)

By: khanh

khanh — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:02:59 +0000

I’m a PC, bietches!!!

By: Felipe

Felipe — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:17:33 +0000

Hi, I’m a PC!

By: ex-Googler

ex-Googler — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:15:21 +0000

Slow down, breathe, and type slower … your typos are disgusting.

By: Jay Cuthrell

Jay Cuthrell — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:11:37 +0000

The must have for xmas 2008 is a “leather giraffe”

After the initial roll out of the commercial there was a sponsored link for Microsoft when searching for it in Google Shopping.

http://www.goog...com/products?q=“leather+giraffe”

It appears to have been taken out of rotation now. :-\

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:05:31 +0000

No walls… only WINDOWS

By: Failure

Failure — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:01:48 +0000

Even if you put lipstick on a pig…

By: AdamJWho

AdamJWho — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:01:02 +0000

This is definetly better than those Seinfeld/Gates ads but their slogan confuses me. “Life without Walls” really Microsoft? I am still confused.

By: Peter Davis

Peter Davis — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:47:45 +0000

If search rankings for the term “I’m a PC” was any part of the equation, then it was a brilliant move by MS. Yes, Apple did hold the top spot on that search, the key operative being “did” there. Right now, when I look, they’ve moved to second and third, and all of the other ten spots in that search results page are now dominated by the blog chatter about the MS ads. Including the top spot. Heck, I bet this post would show up near the top, if not in the top spot, if you included I’m a PC in the title of this post.

By: Craig Kessler

Craig Kessler — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:47:36 +0000

I happen to think it’s a great strategy for Microsoft. It shows a “real” side to Microsoft and their everyday user. It presents the company the way people really are, not just the select “hipster” people who are early adopters of Mac products. I think the change of pace is nice and that they will definitely be going back to the Seinfeld/Gates commercial which I found pleasingly and different than what you normally see despite bloggers negative reviews.

Craig
http://www.budgetpulse.com

By: Niraj

Niraj — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:47:24 +0000

In my case, the first result is a VentureBeat article about the new Microsoft ads, the second and third (indented) results are Apple’s, like above, and the fourth is the actual Microsoft site for this campaign, http://imapc.li...ithoutwalls.com

It always takes a small amount of time for new sites to get ranked properly, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the 4th result becomes the 1st one within a week or two.

http://www.goog....com/search?q=i‘m+a+pc