Microsoft burns our eyes with Vista promo video
By Paul Miller 
posted Apr 16th 2008 1:25PM
posted Apr 16th 2008 1:25PM
[Thanks, Jacob S.]
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Crap! I can't see the video . . . server at work blocks it.
I bet it's good . . . and by "good" I mean "gut-wrenchingly bad."
Must... Stab someone... With pen...
My eyesssssss, I'm meltinggggggg!!!
It wasn't so ba- HUUUUNNNNNGHHHHHHHH!
....so BitLocked will return a stolen laptop huh? That's what the video implies.
Are you guys rubbing it in that you can see it, and I can't?
Or are you just trying to get your comments at the top of the Comments page by replying to my comment, even though you have nothing useful to say in regards to my dilemma?
I was hoping someone out there in Engadgetland would have a neat work-around to bypass a filter so I could actually see these videos that are always popping up.
You guys are useless. But I love you nonetheless.
SPPT
Trust me SPPT,
They are doing you a favor by not helping you bypass your work's webfilter.
The guy in the picture is flaggin out Bloods.
I've always liked my Vista computer, but now I want to curl up in a ball and cry. This video will/has made little babies cry.
Dam even i can find a better video promo check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLlPnobhSdc
Here you go mate:
http://www.saadrabia.com/download/microburn.flv
its like getting rick rolled. without rick.
oo man gotta get the song off my head now :-/
This video is about as good as the operating system it promotes...
OH GOD
Lucky you!
This is solid proof that Microsoft is ran by idiots, and further proof that Vista sucks.
What I am wondering about is the guy that uses that video in their reel. That guy should commit sepukku to atone for that..... or at least cut off a pink, or something
http://208.65.153.251./watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU
try it with the IP instead. sometimes that gets around those filters.
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!!!!
"Vista, gotta get me some!"
I think my eardrums blew.
I couldn't watch the whole thing! And the captions only enhance the lame!
the fact that people get paid to produce that is mind-boggling.
i could crap on video and that would be better. in any case, well done microsoft, you have proven once again that you are out of touch with consumers, no, businesses, no, enterprises, no, everyone, yes. that's it, everyone, they're out of touch with everyone.
According to this website, the dude in the beginning with the red hankie in his right pant pocket is um... dirty:
http://alt.xmission.com/~trevin/hanky.html
You'll want to wait until you get home, then not watch it.
And I was hoping the picture was a Photoshop, guess not.
Bwaaahhhahahahahah.
That video was great (in a so-stupid-it's-funny sort of way).
Try a google search for youtube proxy or facebook proxy etc. My work does the same thing ;)
Not that I ever goof off on company bandwidth =P
Also, I must say, that as the GAYEST video I have EVER seen. Please, someone, rickroll me. I beg of thee.
I'm still waiting for the "Death Star" blimp that was supposed to fly around cities when they initially launched Vista.
This can't be real...
Definitely a fake... there a reason why it's on youtube and not on MS site.
ZeRo -- a lot of companies are using YouTube to get marketing buzz. It's free and has a huge user base.
Also, this video is lame, even if it's only intended for MS employees.
I could almost guarantee it is a Microsoft internal production that was intended just for the sales team. One thing I like about MS is how they'll do over the top things like this for internal use only.
They had Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant do a thing called "Office Values" just for Microsoft in the UK. It's absolutely hilarious:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9076288729387457440
I also feel kind of sorry for their sales team. They're having to do their best with the cards they've been dealt. It's not like they designed Vista after all.
I wonder if they've started keeping the developers on the opposite side of the campus away from sales.
Hard to say which is worse - the OS or the crappy video about the crappy OS. It is nice to see the the people who wrote Vista were allowed to use the same amount of talent in making the video.
Good thing is I'm sure MS will ignore the negative reviews about this video just the way they ingored the negative reviews about Vista when it was in Beta, RC, production release and SP1.
hurrr
Considering that this video was a lighthearted joke intended only for viewing inside the company, I too would ignore "negative reviews" of it.
Get over yourself.
Um, have you actually used SP1, it works great for me. And this video is supposed to be a joke. Microsoft does a lot of funny internal videos.
LOL go to hell boe, u don't know what you're talking about, no random retard can make something like that.
by the sounds of things, mostly everyone here thinks its a commercial. well it isnt, its just a bloody internal promotional video, meant to be dumb ass and funny for their employees
Irwin - I'm impressed you stopped sucking from Ballmers Man Teats long enough to vomit out your response.
I never said this was going to be a TV promo - but even as an internal video it is an utter failure - much like Vista.
I don't hate MS - I use XP on two of my personal computers and my laptop. I have MS products installed on 95% of my systems from workstations, file servers, e-mail servers, web servers, ftp servers, database servers etc. I do however think Vista sucks - big moose - no matter what OS you put it on XP runs faster. XP runs more apps than vista. I can get more drivers for XP. I can boot my PC faster. I can shut down my PC faster. I can copy files to my primary drive, secondary drive and network MUCH MUCH FASTER.
I've actually run benchmarks - with Vista on several types of hardware 2 Gigs of memory, 2.6 Core 2 processors, 512mb video cards and 32mb cache hard drives with 500GB of storage.
Before you spew out the idiotic thing so many people say like SP1 fixes that or their was a fix out for that a while ago - THERE ARE NO FIXES. There are PATCHES - they don't get Vista to perform at the speed of XP. Anything Vista can do XP can do better so it is a crap OS - PERIOD.
And before you make some inane comment about DOS or 95 being faster - copy a file to the network using DOS or 95 - not faster than XP - yet VISTA IS SLOWER THAN ALL OF THEM. Try doing some video editing in DOS - NOPE? FASTER IN XP than VISTA.
Since I don't expect you to take my word for it - go to Vista and try googling VISTA XP Benchmarks - are all the people who ran the benchmarks "retards" too?
SO many people want to be Ballmer's pillow biter and defend Vista - try doing it with FACTS if you are so sure you are right. I've given a factual response - GOOGLE vista, XP and benchmarks
Or try GOOGLING vista and industry research companies such as gartner.
well said boe, I guess you got voted down for typing in caps? I voted you up though to help offset.
I use vista and all, but Come on Microsoft! I'm seriously concerned right now about Vista sales. :(
Don't be. I just did my part by buying this song in the newest batch of Rock Band DLC this week.
That guitar solo is a bitch...
@pagancollective: lmao. :)
How do I reach dese keeds????
Get the stick out of your Apple arse.
It's meant to stupid-funny.
like you, right? except for the funny part.
that was utter crap
my eyes and my ears are bleeding. i think i should be dead in 10 minutes from that, kinda like the ring.
This video is way better than Apple's Air Commercial.
Only if you're a wanker.
My last name is wanker... but I'm okay with that now.
Dude, that sucks Aaron.
I feel like I've been covered in some kind of icky microsoft taint
Well it would have been nice if Enadget actually told everyone this was only an INTERNAL Microsoft promotional video, so it was obviously made for a laugh.
Except for the fact it wasn't the least bit funny...
THAT was intended to be funny??
Agree 100%. Having seen plenty of these types of things myself, I could tell from the screen capture is was meant as an internal joke, and those are almost always lame.
Just would have been a good idea to note this in the article, however.
Well if it were an APPLE joke video, they wouldn't have hesitated to make it clear that it was a joke...
Wow... I figured it that it WAS an Apple joke video...
So they hired a guy for $$$ big bucks $$$ for an internal laugh? Those M$ guys seem to be tossing money around now that Bill is more in the background.
Yahoo, Danger, worthless ads, Xbox 360 hardware issues.
I saw one of these videos when it was played at a Microsoft OEM confernce last year.
We all had a good laugh.
so you're saying it's actually an official ms-vid?
It was made by microsoft employees as a joke. If that's what you mean by official, then yes.
This video is an inside joke, meant for employees, in video form. Too bad Engadget didn't mention that in their original post.....
I though Bruce Springsteen was dead, who knew?
he's not Keith Richards, he can't tour when he's dead
First he was "cashing in" his "celebrity credibility" supporting Kerry and now this!
OMG!!! JUST SHOOT ME!
And you're surprised by this?
Those guys up in Redmond are f*cking L-A-M-E, LAME!
Just imagine 10,000 guys and gals, wearing light colored button down shirts and khaki pants, that's MS HQ....Ugh!
Out of curiosity, do you also judge people by their race and sexual orientation? I mean, in addition to the clothes they wear to their day jobs.
Look Frank, I don't like MS either and have no intent to ever allow Vista to touch any of my PCs. However, you're giving people like me a bad name.
Quit trolling. This is an internal video that was not intended for public consumption - but I wouldn't expect you to go the extra step to figure out anything about what you're trolling, exactly.
There are valid reasons to increasingly dislike Microsoft such as: caving to the MAFIAA for media controls in Vista, destruction of the ISO organization through rampant corruption in the OOXML 'approval process,' and their history of noncompliant, broken browsers (hell, Office 2007 isn't even a valid implementation of OOXML, their own damn standard!). You are trolling, making a fool of yourself instead of making a case.
I'm with frankthecrannck, people that join an organisation with a certain internal image of lameness as portrait by their feeling of what is a 'correct' outfit can have that outfit mentioned because it's an external showing of a philisophy, just like you can draw conclusions from the clothes goths wear.
There's nothing wrong with noticing such cultural trends, nor with not liking them personally.
Then if a goth video (or an MS internal one) confirms that impression you are not trolling by noticing that.
Incidentally, the handkerchief hanging out of your pocket is a (semi-secret) symbol gays use meaning they are gay and a 'catcher' I'm told. (don't tell MS, they'll commit mass suicide I fear)
ahahaha, make fun of the khakis and the nerds see red! the replies made your comment even funnier
As a bruce springsteen fan this hurts me.
"..where the ocean meets the sky, I'll be sailing!"
This isn't actually by microsoft,
They group have a 'making of' style video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
I think they are pretty funny guys!
What about you?
Rick-rolling is so yesterday.
and "so yesterday" is a very 'of the time' phrase is it?
once you rick roll the mets the games up guys
Nice comeback. :D Nicely done sir!
This is what happens with the MiniPops grow up!
I just wasted 3 minutes of my life on this PoC
I turned it off after about 30 seconds.
If you actually watched the whole thing, you have no right to request that wasted time back!
Reminds me of some SNL or MAD TV skit
Steve Ballmer should have sung it.
Well, that was just about the worst piece of crap I´ve ever heard. (or seen) My students in ninth grade write songs way, WAY better than this abomination..
I thought we left the 80´s a while back, but M$ and their products seem to linger there in oblivion.
I hope Monkeyboy likes it!
it isn't any worse then this
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/16/microsoft-burns-our-eyes-with-vista-promo-video/
at least the MSFT one was a goof
crap...wrong link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8VZgJkpeg
Want a good laugh? Google "gay hanky code" and find out what a red handkerchief means when it's worn on the right.
i think you already gave it away
Think again.....
LMAO, the funniest bit of the video!
Use Vista... get Fisted!
i liked the one with courney cox better.
You idiot! I got Rick Rolled. I haven't been Rick Rolled in awhile now.
NUKE 'EM RICO!
Fake or not, there's nothing funny about it - it's just stupid.
That's 3 minutes of my life I am not getting back!
Hope Springsteen sues their A$$es off!
Hahaha awesome!!
I'm more impressed they spent so long making sure everything rhymed!
I.LIKE.IT.
A.LOT.
That's all.
The thing about this isn't that it's cheesy or makes MS look stupid, it's that it's really poorly done and not at all funny. This doesn't make me laugh, it makes me wish they had spent more time thinking of better lyrics and jokes.
I was disappointed...
Uh. That was gay.
OMG this hurts me... and im ashamed to use vista...
CEO, bitlocker?!?!!? WHAT A CRAPPP... please Microsoft Marketing department suicide is a solution for you guys.. no hope anymore