Oh, my gosh, this is such a delightful idea from Microsoft’s brilliant marketing folks. I just can’t stand it! What party animals! This will be so ever much more fun than that drunken orgy we had just a few weeks ago when Snow Leopard came out. I can hardly wait!
Can’t get enough of these wonderfully helpful videos? Then you want to go here.
I love how the clock on the oven went from 3pm to after 5pm, back and forth.
Live, from Bizarro World!
They’re all so happy. Maybe it’s the defying linear-time thing making them disoriented about the concept of party.
Annoying and sick. Out of touch with reality, as usual from Microsoft. But at least they aren’t lined up on the street to buy the next thing their overlord tells them they need.
Cabel Sasser’s take.
If this is actually how Microsoft views their customers, it does explain a whole lot. My first thought was are the actors actually this bad, or are they doing it on purpose?
And they forgot one of the most important parts, showing your guests how to download Windows 7 from Bittorrent for free. That part is a riot.
Every once in a while Microsoft goes along and does a few things which impress me (laptop hunter ads, Zune HD, Azure, Natal) and then I see something like and I just have to cringe.
Billy Mays we miss you.
I hope Windows 7 is at the least ‘good’.
“Yell and Sell”
Pedro just decorated his keyboard with his vanilla sauce…
#24 – qb
LOL
I’d need some blow to get me through THAT party.
That looks like my son there on the right.
This is like the cult movie called:
* Plan Nine From Outer Space *
Is this a joke? I endured half way and had to stop. This is the most stupid thing I ever saw. Right, I am a Mac fan boy, but seriously this is the most condescending stuff I ever saw, – depicting mankind as morons of the first degree….. but, maybe we are??? And ‘ha, ha, ha” with pearly white teeth… brrrrrrrrr…. Disgusting!
While I’ll probably install Win 7 eventually, I’ll probably wait for other pioneers to take the arrows in their backs. Certainly no upgrade parties. And then, there’s the annoying, stuttering video bug that’s showing itself again… but only in this video.
I’m recommending that my wife to wait on her Snow Leopard upgrade too, for similar reasons. Not a good idea to be one of the first installers of any OS upgrade.
Brilliant!
519,727 views and counting, parties starting all over the world, I bet it hits the mainstream news before long.
Marketing genius.
#35 ed
That’s you on the left in the video? Seriously, could you think of another reason why the video has 1/2 million views?
“Hi, I’m a Mac”
“And I’m a PC”
“Uh… PC, who are all these people?”
“Well, Mac, Windows 7 has just been released and we’re having a launch party.”
“Hey, that’s great. How’s it going?”
“Microsoft put the launch into our hands and … look here. We have chips and dips, grapes, cheese, some apples and lemons, and … would you like some –”
“Weed? Yeah, that would be grea –”
“Weed?”
“Yeah, we have that at all our launch parties.”
“Mac, do any of us here look like we do drugs? We are a … hey, wait. WAIT! Where are all you people going?”
(young woman) “Didn’t you just introduce something called ‘snow’ Leopard? Do you have … giggle?”
“Sure. Bye PC.”
“WAIT! COME BACK! I’M INSTALLING VIRTUA-GIRL!”
Windows is the new Amway.
Edited on iMovie.