It's goofy and campy. Like all of the other videos MS puts on for their confabs. You would think by now that people would get that they do it on purpose, yet it seems that the same group of yahoos still loose their $hit whenever it's posted somewhere.
In the last few months we have: - Ballmer's "I'm a PC" - Canning Bill & Jerry (which worked for me..... Gimme a little robot Bill!) - This Boyband garbage
Even as a joke, fail. Once again Microsoft proves they are absolutely clueless when it comes to advertising. The only commercial I've seen recently by them that I liked was the "I'm a PC" commercial and I even question the effectiveness of that one.
I don't know how the proliferation of Vista is going, and I do believe those who use it and say it's good. But XP is damn good too and I don't have to spend any extra money to keep using it. Upgrading to Vista is going to cost me at least $500 if not a grand because I have to build an entirely new computer. If Microsoft wants us XP users to upgrade this isn't going to do it. But, I still plan to upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out.
I guess when you control 90+ percent of the market you don't have to worry about what kind of advertising you do.
I think they’ve seen the popularity of the CERN rap and tried to do something similar. I think Microsoft are concentrating a bit too much on improving their image and not enough on improving their products.
That said, I thought it was quite entertaining and while it’s not going to make me by Windows Vista SP2 (aka Windows 7) it did make me like Microsoft a bit more.
Like others said, that is just terrible. OBVIOUSLY, it is tongue-in-cheek, I think everyone gets that. But it doesn't improve it at all.
To @Charles who said "That said, I thought it was quite entertaining and while it’s not going to make me by Windows Vista SP2 (aka Windows 7) it did make me like Microsoft a bit more."
You like Microsoft more because of that video? Are you kidding?
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Seriously?
Even as a joke that's not funny...
Well, so what?
It's goofy and campy. Like all of the other videos MS puts on for their confabs. You would think by now that people would get that they do it on purpose, yet it seems that the same group of yahoos still loose their $hit whenever it's posted somewhere.
Gates and Seinfeld were funny even if they had no point. This was painful to watch.
Oh come on, nobody's ever heard of tongue-in-cheek?
In the last few months we have:
- Ballmer's "I'm a PC"
- Canning Bill & Jerry (which worked for me..... Gimme a little robot Bill!)
- This Boyband garbage
Are Microsoft *trying* to lose the plot?
Even as a joke, fail. Once again Microsoft proves they are absolutely clueless when it comes to advertising. The only commercial I've seen recently by them that I liked was the "I'm a PC" commercial and I even question the effectiveness of that one.
I don't know how the proliferation of Vista is going, and I do believe those who use it and say it's good. But XP is damn good too and I don't have to spend any extra money to keep using it. Upgrading to Vista is going to cost me at least $500 if not a grand because I have to build an entirely new computer. If Microsoft wants us XP users to upgrade this isn't going to do it. But, I still plan to upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out.
I guess when you control 90+ percent of the market you don't have to worry about what kind of advertising you do.
What...the hell.....was that?
This was marginally worse than the Seinfeld/Gates garbage.
I think they’ve seen the popularity of the CERN rap and tried to do something similar. I think Microsoft are concentrating a bit too much on improving their image and not enough on improving their products.
That said, I thought it was quite entertaining and while it’s not going to make me by Windows Vista SP2 (aka Windows 7) it did make me like Microsoft a bit more.
Like others said, that is just terrible. OBVIOUSLY, it is tongue-in-cheek, I think everyone gets that. But it doesn't improve it at all.
To @Charles who said
"That said, I thought it was quite entertaining and while it’s not going to make me by Windows Vista SP2 (aka Windows 7) it did make me like Microsoft a bit more."
You like Microsoft more because of that video? Are you kidding?
Wow Fred, your Microsoft apologetics know no bounds.
You probably thought the sweaty Ballmer dance video was insignificant too.
Where is your shame?
@ fred, wouldn't it be in the interest of fairness to add your job title in the Microsoft PR department to every one of your comments?
No one but a PR person could possibly spin this video atrocity to the positive.
Face. Palm. Cry.
Plz Microsoft, just fire your entire marketing department. Even the die-hard supporters are being put off now...