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Through The Steve Ballmer Looking Glass
Class Act Dynamo writes "I was browsing for a video clip I saw the other day, and I came across this clip from 15 years ago of Steve Ballmer pitching windows 1.0 in a television commercial. All I can say is WOW. Apparently, there was a big demand for integrating "LOTUS 1-2-3 with Miami Vice." You'll understand when you see the clip." Let it not be said that Microsoft has no sense of humor.
Billy G will personally steal your idea AND take over your company!
Let it not be said that Microsoft has no sense of humor.
:-)
But that's not funny!
-Aaron
My name is Aaron Landry, and I approve this message.
I saw this, like, 15 years ago.
Judging from the way my XP machine behaves, they still have yet to reach that 1.0 milestone... :)
I clicked on that wile browsing from my throne (laptops with wireless connections = the new newspaper folded under the arm) and essentially saved myself from pissing all over myself.
Sound waves should be free!
... look at their product linueup. :)
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The crazy talking head on the television asked me several times how much i thought it was worth. I kept saying "nothing" but he just kept talking. Crazy man. im scared.
--- Caffeine is directly responsible for some of my greatest ideas, and some of my most embarrassing moments...
$99... same price as XP Home Edition I believe.
Which also still has Reversi.
The coolest voice ever.
Ctrl-Alt-Del
Ctrl-Alt-Del
Ctrl-Alt-Del
Please make it go away. Blue screen of death anything pleeeeeeze.
And I cannot even begin to explain how much happier you are for that fact.
Works great in Windows Media Player. I guess that's what you get for trying to save $99.
Putting moderation advice in your
You fiends! After watching Balmer in this horrible commercial I was forced to push a 30 watt soldering iron through each of my corneas. I will never see again thanks to this slashdot article!!!
... and in the DRM, bind them.
It's good to see Microsoft did at least one appearance on TV without Windows Crashing.
If that bald bastard wasn't so personable, Microsoft wouldn't have had such a monopoly!
ahhh...let the fun begin.
Only old Koreans use Windows 1.0
Except in Nebraska.Steve Ballmer is still the same cheezy salesman. has not changed a bit, except he lost his hair...
Weird that I saw this here on Slashdot today. I was just looking at it earlier today, when I was cleaning up some of my files, and chuckling to myself about it.
The best part is when he mentions that it has a clock.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
Since you live in nebraska you got the crappy version of windows. If you had lived anywhere else you would know that 1-2-3 was bundled. Guess you really missed out on the deal.
I tried for 5 years to come up with a clever sig...only to realize that I am not clever.
You have solved the case!
What's even worse is that this will get reposted sometime this next week. It'll go right inbetween the third repostings of "Sony Admits Error" and "Deep Inside the Cell Architecture".
Someone start a goddamn poll on which editors need to be fired.
What, so we can complain about the lack of a Cowboy Neil option?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
MOUNT TAPE U1439 ON B3, NO RING
That's because /. is trying to ease everyone into their new section: Slashdot Retro.
It's super cool - it has 15 year old news, coverage of IBM PC jr. and all the dupes you could ever want... from more than a decade ago!
Think of it as Easy Listening for the blog generation - we aren't getting any younger you know.
Two articles doesn't make a trend. It's two different editors too, so they probably each found a joke that was exceptionally funny to them. I found both things funny, but I laugh at lots of stuff.
It's better than yet another TCO shootout or some other crap that purports to be reasonable.
No, they were made in case the DoD or FBI needed to torture geeks.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Would you have preferred a story about a Bill Gates spread in Man Meat Magazine?
Poorly translated and transliterated from Arabic, it's "All your base are belong to us."
But I don't want to sell used cars.
Moof!
... That was the fscking funniest thing I have ever seen.
The scary thing is that there are ads of the same quality on late night television that are flogging off refurbished PC's with "Pentium 2 power" for only $599. And they even include Windows 95 and a modem. (So you too can be part of a bot net).
I recently picked up 5 Pentium 2 computers headed for the dump. I am thinking on upgrading my Pentium 166 gateway and servers. If anyone wants one I'll sell it for only $598.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
The same language? Have a listen to a glaswegian, and see what you think then.
This is the second time Slashdot has fallen for an anti-Microsoft joke from a submitter
Uh huh, and Monkey Boy was just a bad dream too right?
it is safe for work
My company's website filter denied access to the link to the wmv file. It put it in the "violence" category. It saves me from Steve Ballmer but it fails to save me from goatse??? Go figure...