AFSCME 3357-HOF'S BLOG

What's the deal with the Seinfeld/Gates Microsoft Commercial?

Microsoft hired Jerry Seinfeld to help the company get its edge back and to appeal to the young crowd.


In the commercial Seinfeld is walking through the mall eating a churro, and he runs into Bill Gates in a "Shoe Circus" store (aka Shoe Carnival, clever huh?) They babble incoherently and walk off into the sunset or something like that. What is striking is that in the Commercial, Bill Gates looks like the grandfather of Bill Gates the teenaged whiz kid, and Seinfeld is hip. Does it matter that Seinfeld is a year older than Gates? Seinfeld was born in 1954, and Gates in 1955. At age 54, Jerry Seinfeld is older than about 80% of the population of the United States.