I remember a few months back I couldn't turn on a TV without seeing MSN plugging their search engine. When I was watching basketball, they were on almost every commercial. With all of MS's money and resources, it's baffling that they haven't been able to make a dent into Google's market share of all web searches. Anyways, I thought it was interesting. And they've basically stopped their commercials months ago, haven't they? Looks like they just gave up.
Right now they advertise with Windows XP and Office in the Netherlands. Isnt everybody already having Windows XP?
I don't watch TV alot but here in the UK I saw one or two, quite alot online but not as many on the TV anymore. But as Dirkjan said, I too see alot of windows XP adverts.
You don't see a lot of their Search ads anymore, but a few months back, it was all you saw on the tube. They haven't advertise XP for a while now.