Maybe not- doesn’t he have enough money?

The shoes were Vista. The fact that the sizing was “tight” symbolizes how Vista’s nominal system requirements were divorced from reality.

When Jerry forcibly bent the shoes repeatedly, he was alluding to the work you are going to have to do to make your Windows box usable. It’s hard and repetitive work, and alternative products don’t require it at all. Mac OS X is like a well-made pair of Nikes that you’d buy from a Nike Store — good to go out of the box.

Then, Jerry’s vaguely homosexual query about Gates’ showering routine refers to the contrived mind-bending users are going to have to do to like using Vista. Enjoying Vista is like showering with your clothes on: on first blush, Jerry’s logic of the efficiency of showering with your clothes on seems to make sense until critical thinking (or a real-world attempt) shows you have a very bad result — you have wet clothes and your skin is still dirty. Microsoft insists that you need to learn to love UAC.

Finally, the computers-as-cake segment illustrates how Microsoft is pursuing research that is sweet but empty instead of making computers more nutritious and fulfilling, so to speak.

Keep in mind that Gates has retired from Microsoft and may not be happy with the company’s success in his absence. I wouldn’t be surprised if this commercial wasn’t a subtle “F-U” to Microsoft.

I guess I’m going to have to come back to explain the next one to you when it shows up. If I must, I must.

What a total waste of bandwidth. In a word;’ “Frumpy”.

And I’m sure Melinda buys Bill’s shoes for him.

They’ve got two MEGA rich guys in this commercial. Maybe eating Churros, showering in your clothes, bargain shoe places and wiggling your butt is funny to MEGA rich people. But for the larger portion of the population that is NOT MEGA rich, we just didn’t get it. I think the shot of the family watching them through the store window in disbelief probably looked like me staring at the his fiasco of a commercial last night. But then again, they were probably not MEGA rich either, so maybe they weren’t getting the humor of it all. It sure felt in the end that Bill, Jerry and MS were out of touch.

I can see where this is headed through the series of commercials. Next Billy will bring Jerry back to MS-HQ and show him all of the wonderful features of Vista that Jerry didn’t know existed. There will be lots of shots of Jerry shaking his head in amazement, while Billy drones on. The funny commercial missed the mark, the technical commercials will just be a complete and total bore-fest.

I mean, here they are trying to show Bill as a down-to-earth kind of guy, but who really cares at this point. He’s only a part-time employee now. So wanting us to form an attachment to someone who’s not running the ship and isn’t even responsible for the products that get shipped, makes no sense.

I would’ve been much more impressed by an ad that poked fun at themselves but ended with a message that they’re actually trying to make changes for the better. Though, they’d need to back that up with their next product launch.

Had it actually been hip in any way, the universe would probably have imploded.