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It's a stupid video, not evidence that MS took part in the Holocaust.]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
Quit being bullies. Last I checked, making an operating system was a lot harder than fixing quotation marks in a link. And look how long it took you guys to do that...]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
http://www.microsoft-caused-the-holocaust.com]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FvyGydc8no (Hillary4U&Me)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNTPqG6ZECU (Raining McCain)
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I personally think a company is brave enough to laugh at themselves is much more important than making best products. It is because I'm sure they will really learn from their mistakes and do it better next time...]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
Internet: Boo! Hiss! How can you be so cruel, she should divorce you!

This is like an IQ test. If you think MS made the video seriously. You're stupid.]]>Apr 17th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
Steve Jobs announces MacBook Air was also intended as a joke.]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
"they thought folks internally would get a kick out of not taking themselves so seriously all the time, but some people thought that's exactly what they were being -- serious."

Nah but seriously.. It's not a bad product, just too ahead of it's time. I don't know statewise but here where I live I find it hard to go totally wireless.]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
If you made a spoof video about your job, the sales people at Microsoft probably wouldn't think it was funny either.

None of us were the intended audience, so they weren't trying to make you laugh, at all. If I were a MS salesperson, who knows, I might have thought it was hilarious. But I'm not... so I don't know!

Bottom line is, somehow Engadget got their hands on it, and made a big deal out of nothing. Surprise surprise... lol]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
hmm... sounds like a variation of stockholm syndrome.

how's Redmond these days?]]>Apr 17th 2008 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
anonymousfanboy, you may remove your tinfoil hat now]]>Apr 17th 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
How is Redmond? Not sure, but the weather in Chicago is pretty sweet today (it was supposed to rain but its nice out!). How's the temperature in your mom's basement?

Anyways, based on your reply (mostly the second one, the accusations about working for MS in first one were at least clever, although overused around here lol), I'm not surprised you don't understand what I was saying.

Basically what I was saying... now pay attention... this is really complicated stuff here... "wait wait wait"... you seem pretty slow so I should use an example... If I made a "funny" video about landing a client, or getting "pumped up" for a Markman Hearing, or preparing for a deposition, and distributed it to my office, and one of our partners thought it was "hilarious" and posted it on YouTube, I am sure nearly everyone would think my stupid video (like the M$ video) was terrible (like the M$ video)!

wait wait... I ain't done witcha yet... rofl... so your implication that I implied anything other than what I actually said is wrong. However, my implication that Engadget has a tendency to blow certain stories out of proportion without knowing all the facts, is not. :(

Well, phagbuoy, i'm gonna get back to my conspiracies now... lol

/me reaches in desk and grabs tinfoil hat.]]>Apr 18th 2008 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 18th 2008 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
At least you took your whippin' like a big boy. rofl]]>Apr 21st 2008 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
Your attempt to drag Apple down with Microsoft into the Pit of Offensive Tackiness fails.]]>Apr 17th 2008 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
They work by slowly grinding your self-esteem into nothingness, so that they can then offer to sell you a replacement: a Mac. I mean, watching those ads made me realize how pathetic a human being I am by not having a Mac... Oh God! FLASHBACK!!! I'm so terrible! I'm worthless! Just look at me: I'm fat, slovenly, and I'll settle for anything! Shit, John, control... just... just remember what Dr. Weber said: "Buying a new Mac will only make you feel better for a few months." No, fuck Dr. Weber! Good thing I've got the Apple Store on speed dial. Fuck yeah, MacBook Air, here I come!
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But they made the MacBook Air.]]>Apr 17th 2008 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbJy0O4UFSM
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Personally, I don't see how anyone could ever take something that feels as much like an inside joke as this does and think it to be an actual marketing campaign.]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
okay, i expect this from Best Buy (employees know what im talking about)... im shocked no one has called FAKE yet lol]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
Or Steppenwolf, Propellerheads, Bob Dylan, Barry White, or the Rolling Stones. All artists who make me think "personal computer" every time I listen to them. Thanks, Apple! ]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
Microsoft used Rolling Stones "Start It Up" to promote windows 98.... so why do you think M$ doesn't have the cool to use someone...welll.. coool]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
I'm just saying that the Apple love-slaves at Engadget need to get over themselves every once in a while. A lot of things go on internally at companies that are supposed to be "comedy," that result in simply being unintentionally funny, and unintentionally horrible. I mean, the terrifying pictures of Ballmer should be enough to make Engadget feel good about themselves on a daily basis. Or at least allow them to do high-fives and ass-slaps at the water cooler every once in a while. So when you think about making that post tomorrow that reads "Microsoft Springstien video actually possibly maybe real, perhaps" please just let the internet forget this horrible shit ever happened.]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Jun 20th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Reading Engadget and damage control.]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
Be proud!]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
/heap big sarcasm]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/Apr 17th 2008 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
I really don't think I'll update my MCSE again.

This video would have been funny if it came out six months after Windows 7 was released (and only if Win 7 doesn't suck)]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
Outside of the 10th grade terminology, I will assume you actually used it and intelligent enough to elaborate past the obvious attempt at low quality Windows bashing.]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

All that is necessary for the triumph of Vista is that good IT men do nothing]]>Apr 17th 2008 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/microsofts-vista-promo-video-just-a-spoof/
"I've been using Vista for x months, and have never had a problem. Had some bad ? drivers at the start, but all that's just peachy now, and all is right with the world. I mean come on, XP? what kind of luddite are you? You must just be some sort of apple fanboy. Blah, Blah Blah.]]>Apr 17th 2008 10:45AM