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The Redmond Hype Machine Revs Its Engines â Again
http://www.pcworld.com/article/172920/the_redmond_hype_machine_revs_its_engines_again.html
Windows 7: The Hype Is Coming
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| Listen closely. Can you can hear it? It's the
| kapocketa-pocketa-pocketa of the Microsoft hype
| machine, as the Windows 7 launch bears down upon
| us.
|
| Though it's never worked quite as well as it did
| back in the halcyon days preceding Windows 95,
| Microsoft still drags the thing out of the basement
| every few years, fills the tank with diesel, cranks
| it up, and hopes it doesn't spew oil on the carpet
| or overwhelm us with fumes.
|
| [...]
|
| Meanwhile, the braniacs in the Microsoft marketing
| department have come up with a truly wacky idea.
| They're encouraging Microsoft fanboys and girls to
| throw Windows 7 launch parties on the big day --
| kind of like Tupperware parties, only with more
| burping and less sealing. There's even a Web site
| and a vague-yet-perky video describing what's
| supposed to happen at these fetes.
|
| [...]
|
| Of course, Microsoft is also sweetening the pot by
| offering a shot at a $750 Windows 7 PC to some
| lucky party thrower. Hey, it wouldn't be a
| Microsoft promotion if it didn't include a bribe.
|
| [...]
|
| Also from the Department of Deja Vu Department: It | appears Microsoft will indeed include a logo
| program for Windows 7, slapping stickers on
| machines that have been officially certified
| "Compatible With Windows 7."
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/172959/windows_7_the_hype_is_coming.html
A collection of bad Microsoft promo videos
http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2009/09/28/a-collection-of-bad-microsoft-promo-videos/
Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?
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| I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is
| awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a
| subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do
| about it. OK, OK: I know other operating systems
| are available. But their advocates seem even
| creepier, snootier and more insistent than Mac
| owners. The harder they try to convince me, the
| more I'm repelled. To them, I'm a sheep. And
| they're right. I'm a helpless, stupid, lazy sheep.
| I'm also a masochist. And that's why I continue to
| use Windows â horrible Windows â even though I hate
| every second of it. It's grim, it's slow,
| everything's badly designed and nothing really
| works properly: using Windows is like living in a
| communist bloc nation circa 1981. And I wouldn't
| change it for the world, because I'm an abject
| bloody idiot and I hate myself, and this is what I
| deserve: to be sentenced to Windows for life.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/charlie-brooker-microsoft-mac-windows
Recent:
This Microsoft Windows 7 launch video is, if possible, worse than that musical one
http://zikkir.com/content/359
Comedy Is an Uninvited Guest at Microsoft's 'House Party'
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| Microsoft has produced its share of quirky marketing
| messages, but a YouTube clip produced to promote a series
| of Windows 7 launch parties is a special sort of odd. Oh,
| so very special.
|
| [...]
|
| By two minutes into the video, I could only hold my head in
| my hands, cringing and saying, "No, no, no, this can't
| possibly be real!" before giggling helplessly at how high
| these six minutes and 14 seconds of video ranked on the
| Unintentional Comedy Scale.
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2009/09/microsofts_house_party_an_invi.html
HOW TO: Party Like Microsoft [Awkward Video]
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| On first view we were tempted to think it might be parody,
| but the classic commercial set house was just too perfect.
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http://mashable.com/2009/09/23/party-like-microsoft/
The worst Microsoft promo videos ever!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10361440-1.html
Can Jerry Seinfeld save Microsoft?
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| So the question becomes not whether the campaign will stink, but how bad.
|
| I have come up with three possibilities. The kindest one would be "just
| stinks." After that comes "stinks to high heaven," followed by the
| frightful "What are they thinking!?"
|
| [...]
|
| So we'll all await these new messages from Microsoft knowing that they will
| probably not stink to high heaven, but merely just stink.
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http://www.bi-me.com/main.php?id=23823&t=1&c=129&cg=4&mset=1011
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