With the official launch of Windows Vista last Thursday Microsoft has kicked its marketing machine into high gear. Or maybe more like medium gear. The very first advertisement for Vista is making the online rounds, and it's decidedly unthrilling. Okay, I realize I might not exactly in Microsoft's target market--after all, Vista is only available to business customers right now, so the eyeballs this commercial are aimed at are those in the skulls of CEOs and committees who will buy into the hype and demand their underlings deploy it throughout the corporation--but seriously, take a little polish off the swoopy graphics and a little fidelity out of the soundtrack and what you've got, basically, is a glorified PowerPoint presentation.

Anyway, I guess it's a bit to late for me to say "judge for yourselves," but you can check out the full ad after the jump.