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!]
Simeon
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 8:48 AMIt’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?
Sean Romer
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 12:38 PMWhat is this C D you speak of ?
Chris Oaten
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 9:41 AMBurning 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
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 11:34 AMMicrosoft 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
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 3:07 PMDid I just watch that video correctly? Or was Microsoft showing everyone how to illegally share files??
Albie Abiog
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 5:19 PMI 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
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 8:48 AMAs if you need to spend $200 on an upgrade to burn a cd!!!!WTF??
Anonymous
Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 2:14 AMI 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
Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 8:02 PMThey 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?