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Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld’s Second Microsoft Commercial: Longer and Weirder

The first Microsoft commercial featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld established them as oddball buddies in a commercial running one minutes and thirty seconds. In the follow-up, they’re living with a suburban family as an exercise in being in touch with ordinary people and weirdness ensues. The version shown below is the long one — it runs for four minutes and thirty seconds, and features a teensy bit of technology and tech terms (for a brief moment, Gates talks about object-oriented design) and another “Bill, give me a sign!” ending.

Joey deVilla

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  • Well at least it's a whole lot funnier than the first. It's a shame, though, that Bill can't act, but I guess he has to be there.

  • Because apparently it wasn't enough for Bill Gates to have spent the last decade and a half messing up your computer...

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