From: "John Beamish" 

I'm not sure it is a tv ad.  It seems more likely to be a "front of
presentation" -- just the kind of thing a rep or somebody at a
conference presentation would run.

In addition, when it comes to corps, I'm guessing that the first
significant rollouts won't take place until Q3 2007.  Where I'm working,
they're still testing SP2 (it's a large international company and there are
all sorts of in-house apps that need to demonstrate that they can work
-- and some are in the process of being rewritten so it's a moving targer).

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:19:41 -0500, Rich Gauszka
 wrote:

>
> "Don Hills"  wrote in message
> news:wbxhFtgaXutX092yn{at}attglobal.net...
>> In article ,
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:
>>> If the person who made the video is still employed by Microsoft then
>>> they
>>> might have a crumb of humor left.  I've yet to see a Microsoft TV ad
>>> that
>>> didn't make their products seem like work
>>
>> That's because their target market is work. (Businesses, especially big
>> businesses with big IT budgets.) They're into the home only because of
>> the
>> drag effect - hook them on Microsoft products young and you'll have them
>> for
>> life.
>>
>> --
>> Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
>> "New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager,
>> preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
>>    -- Advertisement on the box for Microsoft Windows 2.11 for 286
>
>
> To me it seems like corporate software sales are addressed by account
> reps,
> product seminars and such, thus TV ads would have minimal impact on those
> sales and a waste of good advertising money.
>
> .
>
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