Do you think that Microsoft could have chosen a better freeze frame for this Vista flash ad?

To answer your question, poorly punctuated ad¹, either they are bored by it or they find it delicious.

The ad is part of “The Mojave Experiment,” Redmond’s new marketing effort in which they lock people in a room with a Microsoft representative and ask them what they think about imaginary new Microsoft products. Miraculously, the people like them! The Vista people must have been thrilled when one subject talked trash about the competitors without prompting—she looks like she is going to puke when she says the word “Mac.”

I think that another participant has a bright viral video career ahead of him on the basis of facial hair alone.

Either that is one spectacularly round beard or the guy cut the brim off a baseball cap and pasted it to his face. Assuming the former, my unironic compliments. I am mesmerized. Throw this guy in some wacky situations and you’ve got YouTube gold. It practically writes itself.

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1. The ad eventually reveals the rest of the question—“when they don’t know it’s Windows Vista?”—but the comma still doesn’t belong there. An ellipsis would have been the better choice. See, Hey Dude? You’re not the only one who doesn’t understand commas. ↑