Microsoft to trot out Bill Gates and enlist Mac user Jerry Seinfeld to shill Windows Vista in ads
MacDailyNews (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Jerry Seinfeld to tout Microsoft in campaign, says report
The Puget Sound Business Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jerry Seinfeld will tout Microsoft Corp. in upcoming ads and marketing efforts. According to the Wall Street Journal, Seinfeld will appear with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in some of the ads and the TV comedian will be paid $10 million for his efforts. (MSFT)
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Excessive demand shuts down Microsoft's new Photosynth site
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Microsoft Corp.'s new Photosynth site was down for several hours Thursday as a result of excessive demand for the online photo service, the company said.
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Jerry Seinfeld for Microsoft
Hollyscoop (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Jerry Seinfeld will star in a $300 million marketing campaign for Microsoft Corp alongside Bill Gates. Apparently Microsoft is trying to "rejuvenate the brand image of Windows" and they figured Seinfeld was the man for the job. He will appear ...
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Microsoft Picks Jerry Seinfeld To Promote Windows
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEATTLE (AP) - Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will appear in Microsoft Corp.'s next Windows advertising campaign.[...] Read more!
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Microsoft picks Jerry Seinfeld to promote Windows
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
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New Microsoft photo site spends first day offline
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Microsoft Corp.'s new digital photo sharing site spent most of its first day offline as its servers strained to handle a flood of traffic.
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Microsoft may enlist Seinfeld for ad campaign
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will star in a $300 million (160 million pound) marketing campaign for Microsoft Corp aimed at burnishing the image of its computer operating system, a person familiar with the effort said on Thursday.
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Microsoft picks Jerry Seinfeld to promote Windows
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
SEATTLE -- Comedian Jerry Seinfeld will appear in Microsoft Corp.'s next Windows advertising campaign.
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MICROSOFT GETTING DESPERATE
jeffreymark (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the latest attempt to up themselves Microsoft has employed Jerry Seinfeld for a mere $10 million to sell PC's . I'm afraid the PC went the way of Seinfeld-people don't seem to remember him: Microsoft Corp., weary of being...
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Microsoft to buy up to $100M in SUSE Linux support vouchers
ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Microsoft Corp., which two years ago agreed to buy and resell $240 million worth of enterprise support subscriptions for Novell Inc.'s SUSE Linux...
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Microsoft to buy up to $100M in SUSE Linux support vouchers
NeoWin (Free subscription) | yesterday
Microsoft Corp., which two years ago agreed to buy and resell $240 million worth of enterprise support subscriptions for Novell Inc.'s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system, will buy and resell up to another $100 million of vouchers, the two companies said today. The unusual scenario in which the world's dominant proprietary software vendor is helping to market open-source software...
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Seinfeld to star in ads for Microsoft
Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Microsoft Corp. has enlisted Jerry Seinfeld as a celebrity pitch man for the software giant's new $300 million ad blitz to overcome the stodgy image of the company portrayed in Apple ads, it was announced Thursday. Seinfeld will appear in the ads with Bill Gates and be paid about $10 million. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and...
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Microsoft Enlists Jerry Seinfeld In Its Ad Battle Against Apple - WSJ.com
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | yesterday
Interesting times... Microsoft Corp., weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.'s advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld. The software giant's new $300 million advertising campaign, devised by a newly hired ad agency, has been closely guarded. But Mr. Seinfeld will be one of the key celebrity pitchmen, say people close to the situation. He will appear with Microsoft...
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New Microsoft photo site spends first day offline
Examiner (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Microsoft Corp.'s new digital photo sharing site spent most of its first day offline as its servers strained to handle a flood of traffic.
