This is it, folks. This is what it has come to! Microsoft has finally closed shop for its Seinfeld-Gates series, released some “Life without Windows” print ads, and has started airing the ‘Get a Mac’ clones, “I’m a PC”.

“I’m a PC and I’ve been made into a stereotype”, says the fake Hodgman. John Hodgman, as you may know, is the guy who plays the PC in the ‘Get a Mac’ ads. Why they couldn’t have just used Gates is beyond me. After all, Hodgman is the fake Gates!

The ads show a series of scenes with various people anthropomorphizing themselves as “PCs”. How Microsoft could think that a meaningless repetition of “I’m a PC, I’m a PC” could ever be interesting, I’ll never know. And if Microsoft thought that ending the ad with Deepak Chopra’s “not a human doing, not a human thinking; a human being” is any saving grace, they better rethink their strategy. 

Microsoft has obviously gone on a defensive stance with this little skit, trying to collect all the beans spilled by Apple’s parade of ‘Get a Mac’ ads. Ultimately, no one will understand what the ads are trying to say, and this will not result in a single additional copy of Vista being sold. In fact, Apple Stores are probably getting hammered with new customers wondering what the fuss is about!

And if you think Microsoft cannot be dumber than this, you should know that they forgot to hide the fact that four of the images that Microsoft used on its PressPass site were made on a Mac! ComputerWorld has found that the images in question use “Adobe CS3 Macintosh” as the creation software, which leads us to wonder, does the mythical Mac in Gates’s basement actually exist? 

You can watch all three ads, if you have the tolerance, after the jump. And unlike on the Microsoft page, you can view them without installing any Silverlight crap.