Comments on: Poll: Seinfeld and Vista, what gives?

Is a '90s sitcom star really the guy to help make Vista cool? Tell us what you think in the poll below.

[alchemistmuffin]

You know what, there's going to more Get a Mac ad based on this....

It's that obvious.....

[pistolapants]

Rodney Dangerfield :-)

[cafteach]

I tried Vista and it crashed, and none of my favorite applications would run on it. Too many security doors. I think Robin Williams is a more apt Spokesperson for Vista. Watch the movie "Man of the Year". If Vista and Microsoft could survive a screening by Robin Williams' bracing humor, then maybe I'd try it. (Microsoft would have to fix all the bugs and satisfy all of Robin's questions. I am a fan of LINUX and Open Office.

[Maccess]

Windows, not Walls? Is that a Vista only feature? XP has networking too, so does 2000. Windows 98 even supports domains which Vista Home and XP home do not. Back to square one: What does Vista offer that is truly useful that XP doesn't have, or for that matter that Mac OS X, Ubuntu, or other *nix operating systems? A comedian?

[e_liz]

Bush and Cheney will be looking for work soon... C'mon the possibilities are endless.

Did you see the president with Bob Costas? Vista has no problems... That's just for openers.

[rplat_1]

This sounds about right . . . only a stand up comedian would try to sell Vista to anyone.

[Norseman]

Ben Stein.

[vmlenigma]

if anyone ever watched the show, HE always had a MAC in his living room JAJAJAJAJA

[Penguinisto]

@Decider:

No advertisement is going to sway a thinking, rational person for any product, unless the advertiser blatantly lies about said product and the viewer doesn't know any better.

@sanenazok:

Yep - MSFT doesn't really advertise much outside of online and print media, but then, neither does Intel, who seems to be doing very well, no? OTOH, you are incorrect in some aspects: It does matter what the product is, because nobody is going to simply such out and buy a new 6-figure-pricetag Lamborghini because of an advert. Also, while yes Apple is excellent at marketing, you're insane if you think it's only the ads that sell Macs... word-of-mouth counts for much more when it comes to buying computers (especially considering that nearly every family has a resident 'geek' that folks go to for advice).

[Renegade Knight]

Step one. Remove the DRM kludge. Fix the over the top specs attached to drivers that don't pertain to the function of a driver (DRM kludge). Fix the OS to work as it should (meaning I don't get OS errors where the OS is telling me it has some mystical critical error)

Keep the nice interface. Then pitch it.

[lepton68]

The poll is funny and all, but golly, which poll answer means YES and which means NO?

[bluemist9999]

Microsoft is between a rock and a hard place with Vista. The enormous amount of legacy code they must support makes core changes extremely difficult.

On the other hand, if they removed the legacy code and went with a clean code base, there would be a huge outcry because (fill in the blank) doesn't work on Vista, possibly resulting in lawsuits.

Granted, Apple took a similar huge risk with OS X. But their supported user base was much smaller at the time.

As for Vista, I haven't used it so I really don't know. Bill Gates said it was released 2 years too soon. Given that, I'll load it on my desktop at home at the end of this year.

[ddesy]

As others have noted, Jerry Seinfeld always had a Mac in his apartment on his show. That was back in the days when Apple was almost driven into the ground by poor management.

Now that Vista isn't doing as well as Microsoft hoped, Seinfeld is going to help push Vista.

Do I detect a pattern?

[pmcary]

Wonder if Jerry will end up with deja vu... anyone remember the "puffy shirt" ?

Also, one could draw an logical conclusion about why Jerry was chosen... his show was about nothing, and since Vista is the OS about nothing...

:)

[Earl Benzar]

Vista is horrid. After dealing with the myriad of problems it brought, I went back to XP. MS screwed the pooch with Vista, and apparently thinks they can buy their way out of the problem. Their better move would be to keep XP on the shelf for sale, otherwise people will bolt to something else that works.

[compudoc318]

you are the one uninformed...if macs are so good, why only a 8% market share, why dont they work on the business level, why so overpriced, why does everyone i know including several mac techs own windows ( hint: to do all the things a mac wont) go on fanboy, numbers dont lie.....8%...lol.

[compudoc318]

people just hate on msft to be cool anymore, half of those people dont know anything about computers either, i still see customers every week who bring in their computers to me with viruses and when i check the cpu, its xp with sp1??? remember how sp2 had all those issues when it came out years ago, these robots are still walking around thinking sp2 is bad....These are the same people who probably havent given vista a chance running around talking crap about it. If youve tried vista on a newer cpu, and you dont like it, I have no problem with that, its all the idiots bashing a product they either havent tried, or they tried it on a 5 year old p.o.s. system, just to look cool that i dont get.

[tekwiz4u]

My question is why bother with Vista? If in fact Windows 7 is around the corner, why not pitch on that later on then spending millions on damaged goods (Vista). If MS wants to recoup the money invested on Vista, they are screwed. They shot themselves in the foot with this one.

[theoscnet]

Who should they get instead of Seinfeld?

How about the two Coreys? Ya know, Corey Feldman and Corey Whoever...

Now THAT's a train wreck I'd like to see!

[solitare_pax]

QUESTION: Who will be writing the advertisements: Mr. Gates, Mr. Seinfeld, or one of the out of work advertising hacks who came up with that stunning statement that a Ford is merely "Equal" to a Toyota? I can see it now: "Yes, Windows Vista is 'equal' to- to - uh what is that product again?" Listen, I don't want "Equal" I'd prefer "The Best" - and to be the Best, you need to prove it outside the ad. Good luck there.