It seems there won't be any more Seinfeld ads from Microsoft, probably because it took them some time to realize that they didn't hit as popular as intended. This next ad initiates Phase 2 of Microsoft's extravagant investment to improve it's image amongst the crowd, especially in the aftermath of Apple's infamous "Get A Mac" series.
Contrary to Apple's [stupid?] portrayal that the Mac is for the hip crowd, and PC users are downright nerds, this one goes out of it's way to tell us that not all PC users are like poor John Hodgman, who appears as PC on the Mac ads.
This new ad does seem a lot better to me than the ill-fated Seinfeld ones, because most of them didn't make much of a point about Microsoft until the last 5 seconds of the ad. For one thing, instead of flaming Apple stuff like Apple does with Microsoft, Microsoft only set out to prove that they aren't what Jobs wants us to believe.
Let's see what the folks at Redmond bring up next... 