Don’t shoot the messenger: Microsoft internal promo video about Windows Vista is hard to watch
- April 16th, 2008
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Here’s what appears to be a Springsteen-inspired internal promotional video about the awesomeness of Windows Vista that may or may not be floating around Microsoft, allegedly leaked by one of its employees. No telling whether or not this is legit, but the video seems almost polished and cheesy enough to have come from inside a corporation of some type, unless someone really went to a lot of trouble to hire a band, a bunch of extras, and write a song about Vista. In that case, it’s wonderful.
Either way, this poor man’s Springsteen seems to have a southern accent. Nice.
via Neowin.net
You know Microsoft made this up no questions asked … with Apple raising the bar, Vista has to do something to keep up, I just don’t think this video is going to do it … LOL!
You got all wrong, this is the promised bonus material thats supposed to be provided to buyers of Vista Ultimate.
Is this why their softwares cost so much? Quit making videos and cut the price on your softwares.
“That was so bad, I think it just gave me cancer.” -Calculon
It is legit, in the end is Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO.
Wow. Dread to think what the conversation was like in the boardroom. “Right guys, we need to make a VIRAL VIDEO. The cool kids use Digg.com and would totally dig this. Get it, get it??”
Cringeworthy, I feel mildly traumatised and certainly not any keener to use Microsoft products.
Urgh, feeling dirty. Must go wash my eyeballs with bleach now. *shudder*
….Of course this is an internal MS produced video. The cutaways to the exec and the leaping trio all obviously filmed in MS buildings.
I wonder why they did not have the Courtney Cox look alike jump up on stage.
Could this be any cheesier…..
The cognitive dissonance that this video creates in the average viewer is powerful.
Obviously it was intended for an audience that has MS Groupthink Server 2008 Ultimate Millennium Edition Enterprise installed in their office. Keeping this frame of reference, the most disturbing aspects of this become readily apparent.
#1 - Do the higher-ups really believe that Vista is not taking the world by storm because they haven’t heard how great Vista is supposed to be? The reason anybody bought it at all is because they believed MS’s press on how great Vista was supposed to be. So telling your sales force to simply tell people how great Vista is seems a little redundant.
#2 - “Enterprises who don’t want to adopt early” are cited as a cause of the sales problem that is apparently being addressed in this video. Hmm, could it be because MS has produced several OSs in succession that were beta versions labeled as “final releases”, and maybe after several years the enterprises have come to expect this, and that it’s possible that the sales force already knows this?
#3 - Given what points #1 and #2 are, the video qualifies both as well-packaged and amusing AND as pointless, self-serving nonsense that should never have been exposed to the general public. Come to think of it, it’s simply another Microsoft product…
That being said, I really like this video. I’m glad they made it. I’m not glad to have watched this digitized Ipecac, but I’m glad they made it anyway. I’m sure it would have deserved an honorable mention on F-ckedCompany if that site was still around.
Oh yes, and I’ll add point #4 to my list: “See what’s on employees laptops!” If your sales force is not “Rockin’ Sales” because their customers are lunkheads who don’t appreciate Application Virtualization, you can sell Vista’s usefulness in helping to spy on the ingrates who work for them. Really helps with productivity, too. Why not simply tell your sales force: “Adolph Hitler was right! You have to CONTROL the people! Vista can be your customers’ SS!”
WOW, That video is ridiculous.
You people are evil. Plain and simple. I can’t believe you foisted this on an unsuspecting public.
Vista frustrations set to music
The Vista Blues
Vista - Not What I’d Thought You’d Be
http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/?p=328
Sooooooo painful.
The funniest thing about this post is how unbelievably stupid the commenters are.
Try Googling about this vid and maybe you’ll finally realise IT IS A SPOOF DOUCHES.
Yes, it is a spoof. And it’s a real bad one. Big self goal.
The Enterprise Customers will love to see that the MS-team is making fun out of them: “Look, you are so stupid that you believe in our boring marketing texts. hahahahaha!”
Nicely done. Good bye, Microsoft.