BackstoryMac-Loving Seinfeld Endorsing Microsoft For $10 MillionMicrosoftThe NYPD's Spying Program: Coming Soon to a City or Corporation Near YouTerrifying Duopoly To Rule Online AdvertisingBill Gates's $600,000-a-Month Rental Will Keep His Daughter Near PoniesMicrosoft Buying Skype for $8.5 BillionBill Gates Might Stab You in The Back If You Get Cancer Microsoft michel gondry Windows Vista jerry seinfeld Windows Vista Advertising crispin porter & bogusky Alex Bogusky Valleywag Jackson West 8/22/08 2:20pm 8/22/08 2:20pm g 1,934L 2Edit How to sell Windows Vista to white people Jackson West PFollowOUnfollow 8/22/08 2:20pm 8/22/08 2:20pm g 1,934L 2EditMicrosoft is pulling out all the stops to buff the image of its startingly unpopular operating system, Windows Vista. Nothing so far has worked. Don't worry, Apple and Linux fans — Microsoft is not doing anything threatening, such as actually improving the software.Instead, the company is paying aging comedian and (reformed?) Mac enthusiast Jerry Seinfeld $10 million to be the product's spokesmonkey. At least one of the ads looks like it was shot against a Brooklyn backdrop by Michel Gondry, the french auteur beloved by white people. Who's responsible for this sudden rush to be hip? This sounds like the work of Alex Bogusky, the studvertiser at Mac-worshipping ad firm Crispin Porter & Bogusky. Guess Gondry won't be touring Apple stores to promote his next film. (Photo by AP/Franka Bruns) 1 jFacebook iTwitter kTumblrLDiscuss