{"id":132,"date":"2008-09-08T10:53:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T16:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/?p=132"},"modified":"2008-09-08T21:23:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T03:23:45","slug":"i-dont-get-it-do-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/i-dont-get-it-do-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t get it? Do you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>** Updated **<\/p>\n<p>It appears the embedded YouTube <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IiVMPgCf6YY\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> is only working some of the time. If the link does not work below, go to YouTube and search for &#8220;&#8221; and you should be able to find it.\u00c2\u00a0 There is also an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fSQMg3gc1r4\" target=\"_blank\">alternate ending<\/a>&#8221; video that is even funnier.<\/p>\n<p>After <strong>YEARS <\/strong>of Apple making fun of Microsoft in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/getamac\/ads\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get a Mac<\/a>&#8221; ads (the &#8220;I&#8217;m a Mac, I&#8217;m a PC&#8221; ads), Microsoft says they are finally going to fight back.\u00c2\u00a0 The code name of this campaign is &#8220;Windows, not Walls?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I did feel better today when I heard that this phrase is just the code name for the campaign and &#8220;might&#8221; not actually be the &#8220;slogan&#8221; for the campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 I can only hope they come up with a better slogan.<\/p>\n<p>If you read my blog regularly, you know that I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nealbreeding.com\/blogs\/?p=77\" target=\"_blank\">bought a Mac<\/a>. I am still very pleased with it, but I also feel like Microsoft has not received a fair shake in the press.\u00c2\u00a0 It is &#8220;fun&#8221; to beat up on Microsoft and I do my share of bashing, but Windows Vista has had less problems than XP did when it was first released.\u00c2\u00a0 I will refrain from going on with this thought, so stay on topic (as oppose to chasing that rabbit!)<\/p>\n<p>So who does Microsoft hire to help them with this &#8220;Windows not Walls&#8221; campaign? None other than Jerry Seinfeld (for only 10 million dollars, I might add)!?\u00c2\u00a0 He isn&#8217;t someone I probably would have first picked, but I love watching his reruns on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbs.com\/shows\/seinfeld\/\" target=\"_blank\">TBS<\/a>, so there is potential there for some funny ads.<\/p>\n<p>I do remember a Mac sitting in the background on Seinfeld, but Jerry never used it (at least I don&#8217;t remember him ever using it).\u00c2\u00a0 I thought maybe they would use that someway in talking about &#8220;switching&#8221; to a PC?\u00c2\u00a0 Probably wouldn&#8217;t work though?<\/p>\n<p>I stopped my guessing last week when I saw the first commercial and I&#8217;m completely dumbfounded? So dumbfounded that I felt compelled to write about it and see if I can get a response from anyone else.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t get it.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it might be me, but apparently not, after I showed it to a few other friends.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IiVMPgCf6YY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IiVMPgCf6YY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** Updated ** It appears the embedded YouTube video is only working some of the time. 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