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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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