at 16:29 on August 21, 2008, EDT.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE - Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will appear in Microsoft Corp.'s next Windows advertising campaign.

A person familiar with the plans confirmed a Wall Street Journal report Thursday that named Seinfeld as the company's new pitchman. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition on anonymity because the plans have not been formally announced.

Seinfeld is being brought on board to help brighten Microsoft's image as the company tries to move past its bumpy launch of Windows Vista.


©The Canadian Press, 2008

I finally got a chance to tinker with Vista.

It's pretty good. But why the hell Microsoft kept the registry and dubbed this thing as a major improvement is beyond me.

Imago said:

Shut the fuck up Dan

I heard they thought Windows was stale. So they picked a guy that hasn't been on TV since the last millenium?

Weird.

RodeoSchro said:

People loooove Jerry. A lot. I heard he's getting paid $10 million for the ads.

Efan said:

I loved him a lot, too - in 1996.

i don't care who they get. Vista will still suck. I had our IT person take out some of the bells and whistles so my system would run faster.

Stymie said:

Once you go Mac, you'll never go back!

RodeoSchro said:

Yeah, I will probably upgrade in a few months.

RodeoSchro said:

I work on both. I gotta say I prefer PCs. For one thing, I really hate Mac keyboards. People always think I'm crazy when I tell them this, but the standard Mac keyboard is terrible. I'm constantly making typos whenever I work on one.

Vista 64 is great.

Once you get a $3000.00 paperweight cause Apple is too stupid to use a modular motherboard, you'll never want another Apple.

Mars23 said:

Vista 64?

Mars23 said:

I don't know what a modular motherboard is, so your words are piffle.

Stymie said:

I think he meant "Commodore 64".

Stymie said:

64 bit OS. It's fairly new, but I haven't seen a single problem in 3 months of use so far.

Mars23 said:

I had no idea this was even available.

Stymie said:

You've gotta run it on a pretty powerful machine and your processor has to be 64 bit. I've got 4 Gigs of RAM and it uses about 40% of that sitting still.

Mars23 said:

My iMacs and PowerBook run great and I don't need anything special.

Please respond to me. I can only look down my nose for another two minutes or so.

RodeoSchro said:

What do you wanna hear?

By the way, someone watch "Seinfeld" and tell me what kind of computer he had in his apartment.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...iAgrrwL_mk


I think that Microsoft will make some good advertising with him. I read they were thinking about getting a couple other comedians on board as well. I'll be wating for them. I'm sick of people telling me why i should buy a mac when the majority of them have no idea why other than they liked the commercials.

best of luck on that campaign!