{"id":931,"date":"2008-09-05T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2008-09-12T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T11:42:05","slug":"shoe-circus-microsofts-defense-to-im-a-mac-im-a-pc-ad-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/shoe-circus-microsofts-defense-to-im-a-mac-im-a-pc-ad-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoe Circus: Microsoft&#8217;s defense to &#8216;I&#8217;m a Mac, I&#8217;m a PC&#8217; Ad Campaign."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates, starring in his own commercials? &#8211; Surely not.<br \/>\nSadly, yes. Also on the pay roll? &#8211; Jerry Seinfield [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Seinfeld\">Wiki<\/a>].<br \/>\n<\/ br><br \/>\n<center><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uz6amk3P-hY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uz6amk3P-hY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><\/center><br \/>\n<\/ br><br \/>\nIn this first installment of the series, we see Bill Gates visit a low-discount shoe store, with Jerry following shortly after him. Microsoft says the ads are part of a new <strong>$300 Million<\/strong> advertising campaign aimed solely at striking back at Apple&#8217;s smug &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/getamac\/ads\/\">Get a Mac<\/a>&#8221; ads &#8230; <!--more--><br \/>\n<\/ br> <\/ br><br \/>\nTo me, the ad said nothing about Vista, Windows or Microsoft, and some people think that the sheer fact this ad actually aired, proves Microsoft are getting desperate.<br \/>\n<\/ br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates, starring in his own commercials? &#8211; Surely not. Sadly, yes. Also on the pay roll? &#8211; Jerry Seinfield [Wiki]. In this first installment of the series, we see Bill Gates visit a low-discount shoe store, with Jerry following shortly after him. Microsoft says the ads are part of a new $300 Million advertising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,656,4,170,288,362,385,657,388,23,499,503],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-50","tag-300m","tag-apple","tag-bill-gates","tag-get-a-mac","tag-jerry-seinfield","tag-mac-pc","tag-mac-adverts","tag-macintosh","tag-microsoft","tag-r-fly","tag-razorianfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}