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Bing's lame jingle starts nice little squabble

Is it possible to have a three-way online flame war in which everyone wins? Apparently so. The battle in question began brewing Wednesday, when Microsoft announced the winner of its…

August 7, 2009, 8:50 AM EDT

This year's desktop-computing blockbuster

I've been excited for this since the teaser came out, and hoping Jerry Seinfeld wasn't going to star in it. Now, Traffik and Microsoft have finally released the full trailer…

July 17, 2009, 9:40 AM EDT

Bing keeps you from being a blithering idiot

Microsoft and JWT wasted no time in following up their introductory Bing commercial that we wrote about last week. In these three ads, the new "decision engine" is posed as…

June 11, 2009, 12:40 PM EDT

Microsoft's Bing prepares to save the world

Here we have a breaking campaign from a giant global company that's struggling to compete in a brutal market. It talks about making "decisions that help us get to the…

June 3, 2009, 9:44 AM EDT

Has Microsoft paid for your new laptop yet?

Here's yet another new "Laptop Hunters" ad by Crispin Porter + Bogusky for Microsoft. It shows soon-to-be law student Lauren (a different Lauren than the one in the first ad)…

May 15, 2009, 9:29 AM EDT

More Microsoft laptop hunters on the prowl

In its ongoing effort to rehabilitate the nerdy, bureaucratic image cemented in consumer minds via the Apple ads, Microsoft has released a couple more "Laptop Hunters" commercials from Crispin Porter…

April 13, 2009, 12:44 PM EDT

Microsoft vanquishes hoops-playing beasts

This Microsoft Visual Studio Team System ad, in which a group of developers challenge the Dread Cthulhu Youth League to a game of basketball, certainly didn't endear itself to…

April 1, 2009, 9:52 AM EDT

HP gets caught in crossfire of PC-Mac battle

This new Microsoft ad by Crispin Porter + Bogusky makes a pretty compelling case for the affordability of PC laptops versus Macs. But it has also riled Apple lovers, and…

March 30, 2009, 8:36 AM EDT

If a 4½-year-old can work Vista, so can you

Here's the latest Microsoft commercial, which premiered last night during the Grammy Awards on CBS. It's the first spot in what might be a new series of ads from Crispin…

February 9, 2009, 11:08 AM EST

Microsoft Songsmith as awful as advertised

Considering how bad that Microsoft Songsmith ad was (we almost thought it was a fake), we didn't have high hopes for the product itself. And as usual, our low expectations…

January 26, 2009, 8:27 AM EST

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