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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."
So what part of "target audience" did you miss? I really doubt Microsoft is interested in advertising to you.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Because the quality of youtube comments is only marginally better than the quality of slashdot comments.
If there was 10 pounds of food in your intestine that came out of your mouth by throwing up, I suggest that you get some colon blow (use it until you get explosive diarrhea) and some breath mints. It's bound to be smelling like shit.
How much money do you think their marketing made for them, as opposed to their monopoly?
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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.
Well, if they can offer a setting to have all MS apps, revert to at least a choice of classic menus and turning off the fucking 'ribbon' crap, I'd celebrate a little, and at least upgrade for that reason alone.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Actually, I've heard that Windows 7 further refines the ribbon into a string, for which there will be a different one for each edition with different operations optimized as easy. The grand unified one, the "super string" for Ultimate, is still in development, as top scientists haven't yet figured out how to make a string theory that would make all operations easy.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
There needs to be a way to moderate the moderators... "ME broke a bubble but Windows 2000, where DOS was finally dealt a death as an underpinning, was a comparatively big deal."
I am not allowed to. Amazing that posts with blatantly incorrect information get modded 5 just because they appear to be written well.