Oh, yeah. I can hardly wait for Windows 7 after seeing this…

Published on October 7th, 2008

Posted by Uncle Dave in Technology, Video

I’m starting to think of Microsoft as the Sarah Palin of the tech world. Pretty to look at with quirky and catchy outbursts that get your attention, but when looked at closely turns out to be empty and simply divorced from reality.

Apparently this latest Bizarro World advertising is supposed to get programmers to come to the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference later this month. Why do I get the feeling they should name this product Windows Se7en instead?

The company’s advertising has certainly come a long way since this:

27 users responded in " Oh, yeah. I can hardly wait for Windows 7 after seeing this… "

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# 1 QB said, on October 7th, 2008 at 4:33 am

Gee, we don’t need an ad agency, we can do the ad ourselves!

# 2 Mister Mustard said, on October 7th, 2008 at 4:52 am

I liked the Steve “Rabid Dog” Ballmer ad better. At least the “BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE” schtick was amusing, in a juvenile way. Once.

That queerbo boy-band idiocy? Sheesh. Music videos were hot back in the 80′s. Nowadays, not so much.

Leave it to Microsoft to pounce on a trend that was cutting edge on MTV circa 1981.

# 3 amodedoma said, on October 7th, 2008 at 5:03 am

Pathetic, even more pathetic than their Vista ‘wow’ campaign, I love it! After years of frustration with their vision, products and corporate strategies, I finally get to watch the gradual decline of the behemoth. The spirits of all those great companies that had fallen victim to M$ are watching with satisfaction in heaven.

# 4 Bob West said, on October 7th, 2008 at 5:32 am

These are in house promos not ads……..

# 5 Bob said, on October 7th, 2008 at 5:33 am

I thought it was funny, of course many of the mac fans will just stop 40 seconds in and leave a comment, but I thought the ending was funny.

# 6 J said, on October 7th, 2008 at 5:33 am

Wow that is just horrible. That is shameful and horrible.

# 7 gquaglia said, on October 7th, 2008 at 5:34 am

M$ once again proving that they just don’t get it when it comes to creating hype for their products.
I think M$ should consider getting the agency that does Comcast’s cable vs DSL commercials. Bill Slowsky can extol all the virtues of Windows and all its bloat as compared to the Mac and Linux.

# 8 JimD said, on October 7th, 2008 at 5:36 am

WinBloze – whatever “Version” Don’t get no respect !!! Why should it ???

# 9 Boyd said, on October 7th, 2008 at 5:55 am

Microsoft are their own worst enemy. When they do crap like this it’s just embarrassing. I have never seen a company so completely ignorant of what “cool” is. Don’t they know that this makes them seem amateurish and out of touch? And that reflects badly on their products no matter how good or bad they might be. It’s cringe-inducing. It’s like watching your drunk uncle hit on someone half his age on the dance floor at a wedding.

# 10 jskrill said, on October 7th, 2008 at 6:12 am

Since the body of the blog does not appear when I click on the title in my google/ig page I have no idea what you are talking about.

Could you please, please, please fix this problem. It has become so boring to have a so called techie reporter with the only blog in the universe that doesn’t work.

# 11 Paddy-O said, on October 7th, 2008 at 6:46 am

The epitaph to Microsoft’s empire…

# 12 Uncle Dave said, on October 7th, 2008 at 6:53 am

#10: Nobody has a clue what you’re talking about. It works fine for everyone else.

# 13 Timerever said, on October 7th, 2008 at 6:59 am

I actually think it’s really funny, but you have to watch it ’till the end.

# 14 Mister Mustard said, on October 7th, 2008 at 6:59 am

@12 – Unk

>>Nobody has a clue what you’re talking about.
>>It works fine for everyone else.

I think he must be using Netscape Navigator 2.0 as a browser…

# 15 Improbus said, on October 7th, 2008 at 7:09 am

This web site may be an eyesore but it works … most of the time.

# 16 admfubar said, on October 7th, 2008 at 7:23 am

brian didnt get it? or should that be ballmer?, is this what really happened to bill gates, and they are calling it retirement?

this is funny! it documents the state of microsoft to a ‘t’.

# 17 Olo Baggins of Bywater said, on October 7th, 2008 at 7:24 am

Skip the middle. If you don’t you’ll need to bleach out your eyes.

# 18 otte-o said, on October 7th, 2008 at 7:35 am

12, 10: I actually run into the same problem when I click the link from Google Reader. For some reason it doesn’t display the content on the page and you have to click the title of the article to reload it to view the content. It’s very odd.

# 19 Mister Mustard said, on October 7th, 2008 at 8:03 am

#10, 12, 18

Huh. Right, it does NOT work properly from Google Reader. It shows the title and the comments, but no pic, no text. Unless you re-click.

# 20 Paddy-O said, on October 7th, 2008 at 8:06 am

#19. Sounds like a bug in the reader.

# 21 Kelvington said, on October 7th, 2008 at 8:09 am

It’s nice to see Tina Wood can still get work! Loved her and Laura Foy for years.

# 22 Bill said, on October 7th, 2008 at 8:43 am

We had better drugs and more fun at APplE!

# 23 Money said, on October 7th, 2008 at 10:17 am

once again I’ve been wasted.

# 24 jared said, on October 7th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

In the very least they could have added some coffee (or water) to the actual cups. It’s annoying when TV shows do that – all you hear is that empty sound when they touch the paper cups or set the cups on the table.

# 25 Daniel said, on October 7th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Makes me want to switch to a Mac

# 26 Rick Cain said, on October 7th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

Typically terrible advertising from Microsoft.

At least it wasn’t scary, like the ninja-kicking backflipping robot monster Windows 2008 thing.

# 27 Garry - Bleach said, on October 18th, 2008 at 3:02 am

The epitaph to Microsoft’s empire…

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