2 posts and columns on Deepak Chopra

New Microsoft Ads Win Most Improved Award (It Wasn't Hard Though)

in News on September 19, 2008 at 3:59 am PT

Here are videos of three of the new “I’m a PC” ads, from Microsoft’s next phase of its Vista-doesn’t-bite advertising campaign. You can decide if you like them or not. But BoomTown is declaring them a vast improvement on the quirky initial commercials that featured Microsoft Founder Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. The software giant seems to be returning from its short visit in hipville to a more normal marketing message, with an it’s-a-small-world-after-all panoply of people declaring that they are all PCs.

Seinfeld and Gates Ads Over: Not That There's Anything Wrong With That!

in News on September 17, 2008 at 4:47 pm PT

While the very quirky ads rolled out by Microsoft to tout itself, starring Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld, got a ton of hype, it turns out there will be no more than than three already released. It seems the churros have gone cold. According to a Microsoft spokesman, the ads were apparently just a warmup for more to come, as early as tomorrow, and though the new ones will not use Seinfeld in any significant way, they might still feature Gates.