Video: Windows 7 launch party parody is bleeping genius
By Vlad Savov 
posted September 24th 2009 4:44AM
posted September 24th 2009 4:44AM
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The actual Party idea aside, the original clip is just so awkward, its almost surreal. If I were to be flicking channels, and see that setting, that acting (are these people on some kind of high) I would think this was some kind of skit, it just has that air about it. And to think someone actually got paid to make this, and THEN someone actually approved it for broadcast!!! I would like to see the qualifications needed get a job in Marketing at MS.
I would like to say I didn't like it so I can be cool and feel better about the fact that the last party I went to was a Birthday party for a 1-year old girl, but I thought it was funny.
This video only needed a puke bucket to go beside the device. Not even gadget geeks like us would have a launch party for new computer software. If you are getting Windows 7 so you can have your own launch party then you live in a really pathetic existence.
BTW that sounds like a lame party to begin with. Even with the token black guy.
Dirty tricks and negative marketing -- these fake Microsoft videos serve as excellent examples of these! :)
How obvious is it that Apple paid for this viral video campaign?
http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2009/sep/windows_7_launch_party_spoof_videos
Nothing is worse than the original, nothing anybody can think up, not even the biggest genius of negative campaigning can think up something worse than what MS are doing to themselves with their video, even most MS personal bow their heads in shame.
But I interrupted your engadget-apple trolling and blog ad, excuse me.
OMG lamest party hosts ever... my party would end up with someone being sick in the windows 7 box.
Didn't think the funny version was very funny, I expected more, and it's true that kimmel does the bleep thing a million times funnier but I guess that's obvious to anybody that ever saw them.
Anyway I hope to see something better ridiculing this MS horror, not that it actually needs underscoring how bad it is, I'm still cringing, I just hope the cringing stops in a few days.
Only lasted to 1:26...
I watched several of these last night, some were a ki.
Worse than a Tupperware party.
What is MS thinking? "How can we cause people to become more reclusive and dependent on their computers? Ooh! I have a great idea. Have them throw a Windows 7 party. You start a party with some friends... and end it with none!"
People will sell their souls for anything. Hope that copy of Windows 7 was worth the friends you just alienated.
Seriously, even my nerdliest of friends would say, "Man, you're biggest frickin' nerd on the planet. I can't be seen with you anymore."
The worst, absolute worst piece of marketing I have ever seen. It was like 6 minutes of pure cringing, not even a small break where you could catch your breath. How a company like Microsoft can make such a blunder is beyond the capacity of my brain to understand. Fail.
What do you get when you take a painfully weak marketing video and couple it with a weak ass parody of it that only produces cringes of it's own?
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Definitely worth burning to DVD and putting up there beside my Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks. [/sarcasm]
Why did Microsoft host this on YouTube instead of MS's SoapBox? Oh that's right because SoapBox has been discontinued..
It's just funny to see Microsoft appealing to what used to be their core audience by marketing through their competitors.
Is YouTube a competitor even if Microsoft isn't in the same business? hmm...
I don't get it ... where was John Hodgman?
Microsoft's faux-average-joe stuff makes me cringe...
I clicked the wrong video without paying attention, watched 2 minutes of it, thinking "Wow, this is just painful, not funny.." I then realized that I had clicked the original, not the remix.
What the hell? Who thought this was a good idea?
Notice the large Sony Vaio laptop - where did you get the drivers for the function keys on your notebook? You can get any that will install in Windows 7.
I like Windows 7 (didn't like vista even though they are nearly identical in most ways other than performance) but I'd love to have Sony post the Fn keys util now as I'm already replacing Vista that comes with all the Sony laptops I bought in the last month with Windows 7 (official release). I'm sure Sony will release the utils soon but you probably wouldn't have them in time for a "windows 7 party".
LOL! This is hilarious.
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MS must be more desperate than any of us suspected.
Anyone else notice the really bad hack job edit at 1:00.
at 0:59 the camera cuts away sharply and cuts the guy talking out of frame, then you hear a badly recorded (after the fact) insert of him telling you to call customer support if you have any questions, and then as soon as thats said it cuts back to the nerd say he played with it for a few days. and this is in the original video, not the remix.
(shakes head)
If you need an instructional video to throw a party, your doing it wrong. If you have the time to remix said video, your doing it wrong. This is a fail/fail situation all around.
i get it but i don't. the beeps are way too long and sometimes seemed to be placed almost randomly. the timing is terrible and doesn't engage the viewer/listeners imagination at all. opie and anthony and jimmy kimmel know how to do this well. this video is much more surreal and obsurb when it is left exactly as microsoft wants it to be seen and heard.
Absolutely the most pathetic attempt yet from Microsoft to drum up excitement. Since Microsoft and their Service Pack has generated absolutely zero real world excitement, MS has to create fake scenarios or pay people to pretend to be interested. Pathetic.
Did Jubei just make a comment without using "me too"?
+1 for actually trying to be creative
of course ...
-1 for still making a stupid comment
Whoever shot the original video must have gone to the school of random zoom in and out. #&%&*ing thing sucks!
I am now convinced to hold a launch party and show everyone how great OSX is.... oops
wow, that was terrible. Not even a chuckle from me. Engadget FAIL.
the ad execs at microsoft have no clue what they are doing. a windows 7 launch party? who in their right mind has a computer os party? (aside from massive dorks, if that).
i just don't think the powers that be at microsoft know how to advertise. do you remember the awkward seinfeld/gates ads?
all this ad does to me is show 4 actors trying their hardest to make an impossible situation not look awkward. and they can't pull it off. no actors could. combined with the shaky camera, forced dialogue, and actors looking off camera (not at the other actors) makes this horrific.
the "remix" video isn't funny. it works on kimmel because they use pixels to make it look like the person is saying a dirty word. here it's pretty sloppy.
those mac vs pc ads are getting irritating, but at least they can make me chuckle. this instead is just terrible.
last note: notice how the original launch party video on youtube has comments disabled. smart move otherwise it would get absolutely trashed by youtube comments.
fan boys use to over rate all the comments
damn with that
That was stupid as hell. I didn't find that even remotely funny. I kept waiting for some punchline that never came.
Oh my gosh I've been blabbing so long, lets eat!
I love how they have the oven clock right in the center of the shot. Sometimes from angle to angle, the time jumps by like 10 minutes. You would think they'd try to hide this a little more.
I, for one, welcome our new Windows 7 overlords.
Wow, thats alot of pausing, you have going on there.
Wow... the original video was awful... "Call customer service if you have any questions..."
Could they have done a worse voiceover?
Oh, and how did the clock on the oven advance from 3: something to 5:08 in 6 minutes? :P
So this is how some Apple fanboy spent his afternoon one day? Making a horribly unfunny parody video from an equally horrible Microsoft instructional video? Seems to me he could have saved a ton of time, and gotten his weekly Windows jab in, by making some sort of BSOD comment in the comments section of a Windows news article.
Wow, that original video is horribly awkward.
Save yourself the pain and just go buy a Mac.
Just make sure you do clean out your *** about 3 days in advance because that black guy really does like to go deep. Trust me, I know.
Agreed, I did not find this funny at all. I was expecting something as funny as The Count Censored. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM
Playing the ol' "O&A Bleep Game" eh? It's better if your bleep doesn't completely destroy the ears of those watching. Holy shit that was terrible.
I feel really bad for the people that literally "lol'd" at this. Maybe if the bleeping wasn't so much louder than the conversation, I could have smirked. Or maybe if it was lined up at funnier times. Or maybe "nothing short of a triumph" is a miserable way to describe this video to begin with.
Fail. Original and remix. I just can't decide which is worse.
which one is the funny one? i'm confused.
Microsoft has succeeded in getting your attention of Windows by producing these videos...it could be intentionally bad and hilarious.
Notice how the digital clock inthe background jumps all over the place... Horrible idea to have a clock in the background for your entire video if its not shot in sequence.
The beeps were WAY too loud.
I knew that remark about the black guy being involved was gonna sound racist! haha
also, I can tell that there are cue cards on the left and right sides and on the computer, just from how often the granny looks at those places.
mr savov,
you are lame for posting this with genius in the headline. what's the opposite of genius? oh yeah...lame.