Follow-up: Microsoft axes Seinfeld-Gates commercials.

I think a lot of people wanted the Seinfeld-Gates merger to fail, including me, but were the media critics too harsh? Nah.

From AdWeek:

Jerry Seinfeld's classic sitcom ran for nearly a decade before it went off the air. The iconic comic's tenure as a Microsoft pitchman will apparently last just two commercials.

Valleywag today broke the news that Microsoft's much derided effort teaming Seinfeld and the software giant's chairman and cofounder Bill Gates would cease.

Microsoft could not immediately be reached, but a company representative told the LaTimes.com's technology blog: "All along we said we were having a teaser campaign. We're getting ready to start the second phase. This was the plan all along."