Comments on: Don’t shoot the messenger: Microsoft internal promo video about Windows Vista is hard to watch

By: DocMontresor

DocMontresor — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:31:22 +0000

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.

By: Thiassi

Thiassi — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:48:14 +0000

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.

By: Robert Payne

Robert Payne — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:26:57 +0000

Sooooooo painful.

By: The PC Pitstop Tachometers

The PC Pitstop Tachometers — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:53:20 +0000

Vista frustrations set to music

The Vista Blues
Vista - Not What I’d Thought You’d Be

http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/?p=328

By: A scarred victim

A scarred victim — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:11:04 +0000

You people are evil. Plain and simple. I can’t believe you foisted this on an unsuspecting public.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:45:46 +0000

WOW, That video is ridiculous.

By: highpowered

highpowered — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:41:53 +0000

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!”

By: highpowered

highpowered — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:28:52 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:20:41 +0000

….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…..

By: Vero Pepperrell

Vero Pepperrell — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:19:10 +0000

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*

By: Vasja

Vasja — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:11:06 +0000

It is legit, in the end is Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO.

By: Justin Ried

Justin Ried — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:49:04 +0000

“That was so bad, I think it just gave me cancer.” -Calculon

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:37:54 +0000

Is this why their softwares cost so much? Quit making videos and cut the price on your softwares.

By: Pietro

Pietro — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:04:50 +0000

You got all wrong, this is the promised bonus material thats supposed to be provided to buyers of Vista Ultimate.

By: Amber@Gammoth

Amber@Gammoth — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:02:17 +0000

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!