I became the first subscriber on YouTube for the WindowsVideos account. Just watched the first commercial and it's out of sync. I didnt like the aethetic right from the start and I tried very hard to understand it, but couldnt. I watched it again and tried to get it, but I still am not getting it. Perhaps Im missing something. - Andrew Baron

I don't get it. :/ - Mattb4rd

I rated it with one star for aesthetic and because I still dont get it. - Andrew Baron

Why is it soo long? Someone tell me the point to this nonsense please! - Sarah Austin

i liked it - i thought it was funny. - Morgan

@sarah a lot of these high-end commercials use :90 format for the web and limited runs and then cut it down in to :60 and :30 spots - Morgan

Here is a screenshot of the account the commercial was uploaded. It looks like I stubbled upon it just moments after it went live: http://flickr.com/photos... - Andrew Baron

What the.... This is it? Cripes. This is more damaging to their image than anything Apple have put out. - Andrew

Yes, my man Bill is funny. No, your man Steve is not. That is all. :) - Randy Holloway

Buy Apple stock! Jerry, buy me a MacBook...iConJohn - john coffey

I don't get it either. these commercials will be a miss. Seinfeld is so "I love the 90s". - Alan Le

I like Seinfeld. I'm still disgruntled with Microsoft. - Chris Menning

I thought it was funny, too. Effective as far as selling or promoting anything, probably not, but I liked it as a standalone bit. - abacab

Well, that felt uninspired. Amusing, though, but not the right way. - W. Thomas Leroux

I love that's his jail mugshot on the clown card - joly

I dunno. it was fun to watch. I'm not one who can be convinced by anything MS does to switch back so I guess I can just watch and enjoy Seinfeld do his thing. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Um. No. Gates IS NOT to Microsoft as Jobs is to Apple. Seinfeld draws painful attention to that fact. - rzklkng

The company with the best comedians wins? - Jemm

I guess the point is that Microsoft wants to remind general public of themselves and that they can be sort of funny, too ;) Or maybe the idea comes clear after few ads. - Jemm

But was it really funny? I think *most* people think it wasnt funny. And it has only two stars on YouTube. I complied a list of headlines here: http://dembot.com/post... - Andrew Baron

it has a "we're one of you, really.. ignore our fortunes, we're *just* *like* *you*" angle to it. I half expected them to have resurrected Al Bundy for the store. I found the windows 1.0 ad with steve ballmer to be funnier! - alphaxion

Oh dear. 3/10. Must try harder Microsoft. And the out-of-sync audio doesn't reflect that well on your brand. - Mike Coulter

No... not this way. Could be just waste of money but after moment of thinking... it's actually working nicely. While it gets negative attention, that is still good for overall ad campaign since it gets people speaking of it. And more time people spend of talking, more closely they remember it. - Daniel Schildt

@Daniel, since when was it out of fashion or too expensive to get people talking about something good? Putting out crap and expecting people to talk about it because its crap is not a very clever option. I cant imagine that they planned to it that way. - Andrew Baron

I don't think the ad is awful and if it came without the microsoft vs apple cultural baggage or the weight of expectations following microsoft's declaration that they were about to unleash the mother of all campaigns on the world I think reaction might have been more positive. I think Loren Feldman has it right - Microsoft don't need to look cool, their stuff just has to work well for the masses. - jeremy ettinghausen