I saw this ad on TV recently. Very creative, hilarious I think. I don’t use Geico, have in the past but I have my insurance with State Farm and AIG. Anyhow, here’s the ad:

In an advertising class at college we were looking at early advertising. Much of it started as shows - it was entertainment - space filler. So many ads now are just annoying. It’s nice to see one that makes you laugh!

Well, this is kind of embarissing for Microsoft. Someone looking at the newest ads found that Microsoft had them made on a Mac! Then if that was not bad enough, they did not even use thier own software (SilverLight) which runs on Mac and Windows, but instead used Adobe’s CS3. Now, how can you be saying “mine is better! (but I won’t use it myself!”?

Read more at AppleInsider: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/19/microsofts_im_a_pc_campaign_created_with_macs.html

Then to make matters worse, the ad is advertising PC not windows. Opps! Another bad, because Micro$oft does not make PCs they make windows.

Then we have the Mojave Experments where Microsoft unwittingly portrays the general public as morons that they can pull a fast one over on telling them they are using the next version of windows when really it is Vista to “prove” that people just think Vista is bad. The problem here, is that the people are not using it themselves, but are being showed by a tech. I asked if I could get a tech with Vista and they said they may realease them with the next update (when they fix the dependency on DOS).

Then to make matter worse, we have the Seinfeld ads that are supposed to make Bill Gates seem like one of us! Ha! All it did was teach us that he can wag his butt, buy cheap shoes, and look like a withdrawn dork. Then the one where they move in with a family and end up getting kicked out!

What a waste of 300 million dollars!

While doing some research on another topic, I stumbled across these ads. Had to share them.