{"id":70,"date":"2008-09-08T09:36:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T14:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.6waghs.net\/poojanblog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-09-08T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T14:36:04","slug":"windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I like (or don&#8217;t dislike) the Gates\/Seinfeld Churro Ad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually liked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/?CMXID=35D505C2-609F-4470-A775-829DC464E6A9&amp;WT.srch=1\">Gates\/Seinfeld (Windows?) Churro Ad<\/a>. Not too many people did. The thing I liked about it was that it didn&#8217;t try to attack Apple. It didn&#8217;t even try to sell windows (at least not that hard). It basically presented Bill Gates in a conversational style.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is large. It is much easier to dismiss and disparage a large company than one that is perceived as being made of talented individuals. By presenting Bill Gates in a conversational style, they are helping their image.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, if they end up financing a sitcom that people enjoy, that&#8217;s also a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Seinfeld might not be the hippest choice. But, let&#8217;s face it. The hipsters have already switched to Apple. The Geeks are already switching to Linux (or Apple). Microsoft&#8217;s biggest forte is the business community. They tend to be older, and more of the Seinfeld type. A large threat is that their business customers move over to Apple (or Desktop Linux).<\/p>\n<p>Re-iterating that they are innovating is a good idea. (Although I thinkg there must be a better comparison than chocolate cake.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually liked the Gates\/Seinfeld (Windows?) Churro Ad. Not too many people did. The thing I liked about it was that it didn&#8217;t try to attack Apple. It didn&#8217;t even try to sell windows (at least not that hard). It basically presented Bill Gates in a conversational style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}