Software

This Is Either The Best Or Worst Microsoft Ad This Year

7:00AM September 24, 2009 | Jason Chen

Holy Steve Ballmer. This set of Launch Party videos are incredible for its nostalgia sake. No, they’re not old videos; I just thought the whole advertising industry moved past fake setups like this back in the ’90s.

Give it a watch and see. My god. They’re talking about having a party for Windows 7. And the cast? It looks like a guy, his mum, his sister, and his sister’s rebellious college fling that turned into a long-term relationship.

But seriously. You know how you’re watching something that’s so surprising that you can’t believe what you’re seeing, that you literally have nothing to add to the visuals? This is it. It’s like if you took a man from the 1400s and showed him a plasma TV.

If you want to kill another three hours at work today, there’s a whole series of these videos about Windows 7. [YouTube - Thanks Adam and Kevin!]

Comments

  • Simeon

    September 24, 2009 at 8:48 AM

    It’s simple; Apple’s tutorial videos have one person one a white background with a still camera.

    So MS has to have 87 people on a dark background with a steady cam.

    But seriously, burning a CD?! What is this, 2002?

  • Chris Oaten

    September 24, 2009 at 9:41 AM

    Burning a CD. You need to upgrade for that. Yeah, right.

    Where is this parallel universe where people take an interest in your new operating system?

  • Nato

    September 24, 2009 at 11:34 AM

    Microsoft will never stop being lame. I use their products and they keep me in the job as a support tech but they are seriously deficient in the marketing stakes.

  • Richard

    September 24, 2009 at 3:07 PM

    Did I just watch that video correctly? Or was Microsoft showing everyone how to illegally share files??

  • Albie Abiog

    September 24, 2009 at 5:19 PM

    I just feel like i watched a video about a tupperware party!?

    Just goes to show how out of touch microsoft is with marketing a product

  • John

    September 25, 2009 at 8:48 AM

    As if you need to spend $200 on an upgrade to burn a cd!!!!WTF??

  • Anonymous

    September 26, 2009 at 2:14 AM

    I didn’t think it could be as bad as you said, until I saw the video myself. I won’t take sides here, but this is horrible.

    A geeky looking guy’s “party” is a bunch of bored people sitting around his laptop while he shows them the 100 steps he has to do in Windows 7 to burn a CD of the music they allegedly listened to. With fake and inappropriate laughter.

  • kurt

    October 8, 2009 at 8:02 PM

    They do make it hard to burn CDs in Windows thou gh so it looks like a step in the right direction. They still dont make it easy to burn a floppy disk though?

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