# Windows 10 Commercial with the kids **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-commercial-with-the-kids/734240 "2015-10-11T05:09:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-commercial-with-the-kids/734240/1 "2015-10-11T05:09:48Z")
So, Microsoft has a TV commercial in heavy rotation that shows kids doing various things. The voiceover says that these kids will do great things. You can view the commercial [here](http://www.ispot.tv/ad/AV4x/microsoft-windows-10-the-ones-who-will-do-great-things). Can we all agree that great things are not likely from the little girl on the diving board? They show the girl at the end of the high-dive, but when it is time to show her dive, she runs the wrong way! Look at the kid on the ladder. He’s about to dodge the girl coming at him. What is going on in this commercial?? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-commercial-with-the-kids/734240/2 "2015-10-11T05:14:08Z")
They WILL do great things. For now they are just doing kid things like backing out of a dive. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-commercial-with-the-kids/734240/3 "2015-10-11T06:46:39Z")
Is this the one (won’t click link) with the incredibly ugly baby at the beginning? I hope this kid does great things, because with a face like that, life is going to be difficult. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-commercial-with-the-kids/734240/4 "2015-10-11T10:38:49Z")
The whole point is that we can’t tell by how they act as a kid what they will do, but we need to do what we can to help them do what they can now. Now, I’m not sure how Windows 10 will help the kid on the diving board, but that’s true for a lot of those shown. That’s just advertising these days–connect your product with a feeling, not what it can do. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-commercial-with-the-kids/734240/5 "2015-10-12T13:38:29Z")
I totally didn’t get that the girl was backing out of the dive. It looked to me like she was lining up for the dive, steeling her resolve, and then running the wrong direction. I was so afraid that the little girl ended up a splat on the floor right after the camera cut away. Actually, I’m not sure that there ever was a girl on the diving board. I think she was added digitally later. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-commercial-with-the-kids/734240/6 "2015-10-12T14:03:25Z")
Typical Microsoft standards, there. A couple dozen kids, and you expect that only one of them will change the world? Give them Macs, and I guarantee that at least 15, maybe 20 of them will. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-commercial-with-the-kids/734240/7 "2015-10-12T14:37:21Z")
I thought the direction of the commercial was all kids are goofy and you can’t tell which of these are going to grow up to do great things. Forget all of that because at the end they show us it’s the girl doing the drawings. So don’t be wasting time on the kids playing or throwing basketballs out of the window. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-10-commercial-with-the-kids/734240/8 "2015-10-13T03:31:27Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > They WILL do great things. For now they are just doing kid things like backing out of a dive. No. Clearly, Start Trek TNG tells us that because she backed out of the dive and displayed cowardice, she will grow up to have a safe a predictable career as a botanist. She will not do great things. Now, on the other hand, if she had gotten into a bar fight…