For decades, their status as a monopoly had given them money to burn, enabling what has to be the worst-run corporate structure of all time, with its redundancies and cross-purposes (the one thing they do well is crush/buy out competitors). You could fire 99% of Microsoft's workforce this afternoon with absolutely zero effect on their product line -- the whole effort is just a gigantic jobs program for middle managers otherwise unskilled in anything but holding meetings about when to meet to decide on the next meeting.

Who's next? Dan Ackroyd? Chevy Chase?

if it was 1992.

I agree, the long version is much better. sort of delightfully weird. But... still... at the end, I was like, WTF does this have to do with computers? Or Microsoft? Or their brand? And the bit about computers as cake at the end was stupid.

Isn't MS a distant fourth in server software market share? I admit that I don't know shit about server software; how's that?

Bill: Hey David, what are you doing with your new Surface table top computer running Vista?

David [hurriedly mopping up Surface with paper towels]: N-n-n-nothing! Don't cha knock?!

Back in my day, nothing appealed less to kids/twenty-somethings than two mega-rich 50-somthings hawking product.

yeah, the booking photo WAS funny...the rest sucked. I don't see how it would encourage anyone under 40 to buy a pc.

and the mac/pc ads are brilliant, even though the pc actor is much more lovable than that greasy idiot Justin Long.

@13 got it - if you like us, then forget about issues, problems, or details and just buy us. Our marketing campaign can make you smile in 30 seconds (or induce fear, in the GOP's case) so that should be enough to get you on-board. Let freedumb ring.