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A Decade of Dreadful Microsoft Ads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the john-hodgman-is-giggling dept.

Barence writes "PC Pro has rounded up the most howlingly awful examples of ads churned out by Microsoft over the past decade. The selection includes the cringe-worthy Gates & Seinfeld ads — where Gates looks like he’s delivering his lines with the help of a cattle prod — to the terrible Windows 7 party ads (an 'F1 key for social inadequates,' according to PC Pro), to the one that got away: an excellent in-house training video produced by The Office's Ricky Gervais."

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  1. Re:Is that Windows 1.0 commercial real? by truthsearch · · Score: 4, Funny

    But wait, there's more! If you think that one looks like a parody check out this classic DOS 5 upgrade commercial.

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  2. Missed some bad Microsoft ads by dwheeler · · Score: 4, Funny

    They missed some hideously-bad ads for Microsoft.

    My favorite "bad Microsoft ad" is a 2000 TV ad, which uses the musical theme of "Confutatis Maledictis" from Mozart's Requiem. The screen says "Where do you want to go today?" while the chorus sings "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" ("The damned and accursed are convicted to the flames of Hell").

    There's also a 2009 ad featuring a vomiting woman.

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  3. Re:Is that Windows 1.0 commercial real? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    That was awesome! I want to go out and buy MS-DOS 5 Upgrade right now!