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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. The Decade of Microsoft by Slash.Poop · · Score: 5, Informative

    Can anyone really deny this was the decade of Microsoft?

    Personal
    XP released in 2001, is still going strong and will be for quite some time.
    7 released in 2009, is going strong and has received great reviews.

    Professional
    Server 2003 released in 2003, is still going strong and will be for quite some time.
    Server 2008 released in 2008, is going strong and has received great reviews.

    There was the Vista speed bump but overall this was without a doubt a Microsoft decade.

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  2. Re:Is that Windows 1.0 commercial real? by Greg+Hullender · · Score: 4, Informative
    No, it was a spoof done to entertain people at the annual company meeting. It was popular (for years) to make spoof ads for us as well as spoofs of ads by competitors. My favorite was a spoof on the IBM software for the Olympics, in a year when IBM made a big deal about how their software was being used to tally the scores, but there were serious problems (possibly not really IBM's fault) anyway. The spoof reported that some event (say the pole vault) was won by a 7-foot-tall dwarf from Mesopotamia. (Or something equally outlandish.)

    Once it was possible for these things to leak onto the Internet, I think they quit doing them.

    --Greg

  3. Re:It's OK when it's You by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Informative

    um bullshit.

    90% of all OSX software installs to the applications directory and DO NOT REQUIRE admin password for install.

    the only apps that need admin acces are ones that try to install services or files to the system folder.

    Did you even use a mac or are you making this stuff up? Because in the last 5 years of OSX use at home and work I have NEVER ran into what you are talking about except for highly system invasive apps.

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