Microsoft ends ads featuring Gates, Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld asked Bill Gates silly questions.

SEATTLE - TV viewers can watch their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his rear end now that Microsoft Corp. has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's chairman with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.

Bloggers and online media have suggested the company yanked the ads after they were poorly received. The ads show Gates and Seinfeld trading banter at a shoe store and while living with a suburban family, trying to get in touch with regular people. Seinfeld asks Gates silly questions about the future of computing, and Gates responds with "signs" that he's on the right track, including "adjusting his shorts," as Seinfeld called the awkward hip shake.