According to the Wall St. Journal , "Microsoft Corp., weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.’s advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld," a stodgy oldster who appears mainly in reruns of a TV show that began 19 years ago and ended 10 years ago.
He will be paid $10 million as part of a $300 million ad campaign that promotes Windows Vista. Story also reported in the Seattle P-I .
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The article says the ad slogan might be “windows, not walls” Microsoft must not mean open windows, but those hermetically sealed windows in commercial buildings. If they meant open windows, they would be referring to Linux!