"Hosting your Windows 7 launch party"

Post #314,481 by rcareaga 9/23/09 8:17:10 PM Reply	"Hosting your Windows 7 launch party" http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ I don't get it. Does Microsoft hire its PR people from some alternative Bizarro universe? Can you imagine anything like this ever emerging into the light of day from Apple? Can you imagine an in-house team presenting this to El Jobso and ever being seen again? They and their workproduct would be buried in deep graves at Infinite Loop, and a cement truck loaded with quicklime would slop cubic yards of solvent on top of them. Here's the "dirty" version." Same as above, except the Borg references beeped out. Dirty indeed: http://www.cabel.nam...dows-7-party.html But geez, whatever they're smoking in Redmond I want no part of. Major brain damage clearly attends it. cordially,
Post #314,482 by folkert 9/23/09 8:32:57 PM Reply	I ashamedly admit... I went to the "sign page" for my Free "Ultimate" version to pass around at the party. But I just COULDN'T force myself to give them all my information... and reasons why I REALLY LIKE BEEEP. I also have to be honest, my finger tips were burning as I was typing my initial honest responses... before I just closed the browser tab.
Post #314,483 by boxley 9/23/09 8:33:14 PM Reply	lets see, old white broad check, saucy blonde check big black guy shaved head dressed unthreatening check, nerdy white guy with geek glasses, check. Sounds like the guy from the apple commercial designed it allright. thanx, bill
Post #314,484 by rcareaga 9/23/09 8:39:49 PM Reply	demographic checklist, sure You're asking us to imagine that the lameness quotient wouldn't have had Jobso's quality-control elves on the floor, twitching uncontrollably and bleeding from the ears and rectums? And yes, I'm LRPD-whoring here. cordially,
Post #314,486 by boxley 9/23/09 9:17:52 PM Reply	you got it lrpd that sucker
Post #314,495 by jake123 9/24/09 9:33:04 AM Reply	You know, I watched it to the end but despite the initial impressions, a game of naked mazola twister didn't break out.
Post #314,522 by kj3n 9/24/09 10:15:43 PM Reply	There's several seconds of my life... ... I'll never get back. Several seconds was all I could stand.
Post #314,523 by folkert 9/24/09 10:20:53 PM Reply	hey slick... KD8LVP here. http://www.arrl.org/....php3?call=KD8LVP :P I haven't done anything yet.
Post #314,524 by kj3n 9/24/09 10:23:33 PM Reply	About damned time. Congrats.
Post #314,545 by drook 9/25/09 10:45:00 AM Reply	Wow I'd really like to be at the meeting where they're looking at that finished product and deciding, "Yes, that's it exactly. Publish it." Who exactly is the target for that video, other than the suits? Who do they think is going to watch it and think, "Gosh, what a cool idea!"? -- Drew
Post #314,562 by beepster 9/25/09 3:06:33 PM Reply	I can't think of anyone ..who would ever consider doing this. Thats worse than any sunday morning infomercial I've ever seen. Wow..someone earns a paycheck for that??? I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #314,564 by malraux 9/25/09 3:35:47 PM Reply	I would love to believe... ... that it's tongue in cheek, but there's just a creepy "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" feeling about it that tells me "no". Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #314,567 by beepster 9/25/09 4:15:05 PM Reply	I had that same creepy But if I saw that run against pretty much any >other< idea...the other idea would win...so it could have been done by the internal marketing guys to support a different approach. Don't have much faith in that, though...as this is the company that brought us such things as "Bob". I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
Post #314,568 by drook 9/25/09 4:50:05 PM Reply	The sheer length is what makes me think it's real If it were a joke, you could have made it in two minutes. This just goes on and on and on ... -- Drew
Post #314,572 by boxley 9/25/09 5:57:27 PM Reply	perhaps they have a point there is more of them than there is of us, so they went after their base scary thought that
Post #314,590 by static 9/25/09 11:49:48 PM Reply	I can think of someone who would do it. Two, actually. Both of them make their living with MS products and have been in MS beta programs. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #314,575 by Another Scott 9/25/09 6:56:28 PM Reply	Can't watch it. For some reason, I only see a couple of seconds before it stalls. The 2nd one is smooth, and gets the point across. ;-) I find the fake camera shaking and sudden zooming that seems so common in these types of ads to be very annoying. Right up there with pictures on the front pages of newspapers that are deliberately rotated about 30 degrees for no sensible reason... Cheers, Scott.
Post #314,946 by Andrew Grygus 10/1/09 5:11:30 PM Reply	I finally got around to viewing this . . . It is sick, really sick . . . and probably a stroke of marketing genius - it certainly has had a lot of people talking about it. Even the MacFanatics have been talking about it. "No such thing as bad publicity', you know.
Post #315,007 by rcareaga 10/3/09 11:52:15 AM Reply	No such thing as bad publicity? Ummm...Elliot Spitzer? Yeah, it's gone viral, but I'm very much inclined to think this was not of set purpose by MS or by the lame-ass "house party" marketing group that produced it for them. In the case of the latter, think of all the potential clients going "Get these people on the phone! I want them to produce an internet video that will make our flagship product an object of scorn!" I guess it's one thing if you're trying to market the "Super Bass-o-Matic 76" and not getting any traction, but it's not as though Windows 7 was going to launch unnoticed this fall. cordially,

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