What doesn’t Microsoft get?

What’s the difference between newspaper Web sites and the dead-trees version? The New York Times would never allow this on their dead trees version.

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It’s a pretty funny bit, though, as most of the John Hodgman-Justin Long Mac ads are.

And the ads must be working because Microsoft has announced today that the Jerry Seinfeld – Bill Gates ads are being dropped in favor of a new campaign, featuring a John Hodgman look-alike.

I wonder what would happen if they turned the whole account over to the people who do political ads? Take a stab at it, post your version on Gather.com and I’ll dig out a swell News Cut prize.