Lilly Irani

Mesh, www.mesh.com. That's what it's all leading to. MS is trying to reconnect with everyone, because everyone thinks they suck. They also want to show how MS can connect with everyone/everything -- through Mesh. - Richard Crocker

Yesh indeed, very messhy. - Kate Foy

So strange! This commercial at least had more direction and correlation than the 1st. - Nicholas Kreidberg

I'm starting to like it for some reason. - Paul Buchheit

It sounds like Jerry Seinfeld wrote it. - Gabe

I am not sure what it has to do with Windows, but I enjoyed watching it. - Bret Taylor

I think someone convinced Microsoft that the Apple ads were successful because they were entertaining. These ads are entertaining, even if they aren't always funny, mostly because it's fun to watch people with so much money who don't mind being extremely silly. - Chris White

This one was much better than the last. Still has me confused as to what it has to do with an operating system but it kept my attention. - Benjamin Golub

For the first ad, see this comment someone (not me!) left on Mary Jo Foley's blog: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208... - Jordan Hofker

badly acted, edited, so i guess hokey is in the spec somewhere - Gregory Lent

Much better than the last! I liked this one. - Nick Munson

It's not terrible, but it _is_ messy. It almost feels like it was edited by software engineers. :) Is it supposed to be funny? - Robert Konigsberg

weird, i liked the last one about The Conquistador better. This one was too long. I did enjoy the polymorphism bedtime story though. - Lilly Irani

I laughed my head off at the first comment. That is the most funny sentence I have read on FF. :) - Space Cowboy

Liked it alot. The point was that real people use Microsofts products too, not just developers that powershell their way around it.Hence you need to underatand how the average Joe sees things to make a great OS. I really dig the "goldfish with a website" line. - Roberto Bonini

Honestly. Any agency that could get Bill Gates to do The Robot deserves our faith. Purely from a "history of advertising" POV I very much want to see where this goes. And as for humor, I find its benign weirdness a lot more palatable than being told by snarky Apple that, as a PC user, I'm a clueless doughy frump. - Sprague D

There's wasting money and then there's burning money. Microsoft is doing the latter. The theme seems to be connecting. The only connecting going on here is happening between the agency and Microsoft's cash. This creative deserves some kind of award for sucking, you would have to have a carefully detailed plan to suck this bad. The humanity. - Dave Hussein Martin

Have to agree with Sprauge D. Apple ads may have Apple fan boys in a tizzy, but these microsoft ads are far more.... dare i say it, human. - Roberto Bonini

I've got to say I didn't hate it as much as the first one; and maybe (bold maybe) this is what the ads are going to be -- a progressive message - JungleG via twhirl