Windows 7 receives 7,000 domino salute (video)

If 7,000 dominoes fall in a forest of cheering Microsoft employees, do they make enough noise for us to care? We don't usually tell Microsoft how to run its promotions, but a domino installation that takes a full three minutes to topple is pretty much an open invitation for "slow boot-up" jokes, and a climactic finale that revolves around a hot air balloon version of your logo crashing against a glass ceiling might also create the wrong impression. Ah well, these guys are engineers and not choreographers, after all -- you can see the fruit of their labor after the break.

[Thanks, Colin]

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[clovis Posted Oct 28th 2009 10:37AM]

Windows 7 - No Matter What You Touch, It'll Fall Over

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 10:40AM]

And how does this video of dominoes help my user experience in any way?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 2:21PM]

Yeah that was cool for like the first 10 seconds. The rest was booooorrrriiiiinngggg. And who was the idiot attempting to cheer right behind the camera? He needs to work on his falsetto big time.

[sporkinum Posted Oct 28th 2009 10:45AM]

Was this filmed in India? Or was the camera man just standing in the H-1B section?

[Phen Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:22PM]

Gladly reported :)

[Phen Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:24PM]

By the way - If caucasian americans would have HALF the work ethic of Indian/ Chinese students we'd be living in a much improved america right now. As it is, universities are clamoring for international prof's / students in order to improve their science programs.

[fargle Posted Oct 28th 2009 11:03AM]

Kinda looks like a Windows machine with the customary 10,000 trojans running rendering a Web page....

[Giroro Posted Oct 28th 2009 11:18AM]

That was ... really boring to watch.

[Raikus Posted Oct 28th 2009 11:22AM]

This video seems more realistic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH5ss2iq6gg

[TheDave Posted Oct 28th 2009 11:38AM]

there are no walls, but there is a roof!

[azononi Posted Oct 28th 2009 11:47AM]

this works just as well as windows close but just not quite there. I am sure after viewing this microsoft would quickly withdraw any support whatsoever.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:02PM]

Just like Windows and have a error half way threw. lol. Is it a sign of whats to come, more problems?!?! Get a Mac

[Phen Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:27PM]

YES!! because with Mac's you dont even have to know how to compose a sentence in order to make a fool out of yourself online!

Threw? a error? Your 4th grade teacher called - your bathroom break was over a long time ago...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:09PM]

you people suck, except the windows mobile joke guy, hes funny, the rest of you though, for shame.....

[umang Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:10PM]

Hey ... I submitted this!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 2:55PM]

And they still didn't fix the scanline!

[crazytuga Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:50PM]

nice video windows 7 "falls"

[the steven Posted Oct 28th 2009 12:58PM]

So, what will crash first..... All those dominoes, or Windows 7?

[jkenny23 Posted Oct 28th 2009 1:35PM]

Felt like watching an old inkjet printer. Also they should have done this with Windows 7 retail boxes instead.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2009 5:53AM]

The video Is full of Fail, Just like windows 7!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 2:01PM]

all i can say is "WHOOOOOAAAAAAAAA!"

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 2:32PM]

Wow, say what you want about Microsoft, but that was pretty cool...

I'm definitely going to have to blog about this

[MikeZ Posted Oct 28th 2009 3:01PM]

Now let´s redo that one with a BSOD pattern on the back of those domino stones. :D

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 3:42PM]

Shown in realtime of the Windows 7 boot

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 4:23PM]

this is the new loading screen for windows, the time it takes is accurate to start up time

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 4:18PM]

Kinda mimics the operating system... slow and buggy

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 5:54PM]

The error at 1:25 was clearly a problem caused by a bad driver.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 6:08PM]

its nice to see that even the domino's related to Microsoft have glitches.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 6:38PM]

SOOOOOO anticlimactic.

But could this be a confirmed future loading screen?

[Lomoco Posted Oct 28th 2009 7:40PM]

That's a launch party.

[Eternal Density Posted Oct 28th 2009 8:20PM]

Nice try, with a side of minor fail due to the 'glitch'. I though the 'life without walls' part was pretty lame too. The Windows Logo balloons were a nice touch though.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 28th 2009 9:56PM]

The difference between the Windows and Mac fanboy: The Windows fanboy is obselete!

We haven't had one button mice for years. You can't say the same for Windows' issues. I don't get the duplo blocks thing...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2009 1:19AM]

No wonder why windows has been falling behind they waste their time building a dominoes version of a boot up screen, that even had an error and need a Professional Microsoft Technician to fix it and he still did it wrong, plus every level was filled with Microsoft employees, talk about low productivity shouldn't they be working on the next release of windows.

[ImDaIllest Posted Oct 29th 2009 4:37AM]

thank god for "seek/forward", feel sorry for u losers who sat through it(apple fanboys).

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 29th 2009 7:58AM]

The horizontal refresh rate is a bit slower than on Ubuntu

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 2nd 2009 12:37AM]

this shows:
all the crashes and errors of windows
how much you need to fix it
and the longgggg loading times!