WTF Microsoft
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0:00–0:19My name is Greta and we're going to be learning how to use Microsoft. Hey Wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's not what it looks like. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm just I'm just trying to learn Windows 95. Now, most of you are probably familiar with the famous Steve Balmer Windows commercial. How much do you think this advanced operating environment is worth? Wait just one minute before you answer.
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My name is Greta and we're going to be learning how to use Microsoft. Hey Wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's not what it looks like. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm just I'm just trying to learn Windows 95. Now, most of you are probably familiar with the famous Steve Balmer Windows commercial. How much do you think this advanced operating environment is worth? Wait just one minute before you answer. But most of you probably don't know. Why not Nebraska? It's Windows FROM MICROSOFT. ORDER TODAY. P Box 286 DOS except in Nebraska. But that's not the only strange commercial from Microsoft. But it turns out they actually made tons of these. Nothing ever looks hot. Stand back window. If that wasn't weird enough, sometimes they just did fat PEOPLE JOKES. OH GOSH. Who is that? I don't know. But uh could he be any larger? It's Boris the window washer.
Watch from 0:00It's the '9s, you know. Am I right? Now, I know a lot of you probably never forgot. My name is Greta and we're going to be learning how to use Microsoft's latest version of Windows called Windows 95. But it keeps on going. We have Steve Balmer with Bill Gates making fun of Linux doing Matrix impersonations, A Night at the Roxberry, and even whatever that is. They even had a commercial that was cancelled due to 9/11. So, yes, we're going to go over some of these amazing 1990s commercials of Windows, and I'll give you a little bit of the lore standing behind it. But before we do, a quick thank you to the sponsor. She's seen the latest database CEO monthly. Whoa, nice uptime. I'd love to get my data in that. You mean you haven't even connected yet? We can use my Planet Scale account. It's called Planet Scale and it's really rad. Those database queries are super fast. Branches, migrations, query insights, too. My SQL and Postgress are easy to use. Yeah, go planet scale. Get data. Wik. It's Postgress. Planet Scale. The easiest MySQL or Postgress database to use. Your developers or parents help you hook it up. data sold separately. So, to get started, I think we have to start where probably everybody's the most curious. Why Nebraska? Why could I not buy Windows 386 in Nebraska? So, it turns out that this right here actually was never put on television. It was actually an internal video. Apparently, this was the thing that they did during the Balmer era, which was to make
Watch from 1:15amazing spoofs on like cultural moments. And this particular moment had one thing that I mean, me personally, I found very confusing. Except in Nebraska. So, the backstory is a little bit strange. It turns out during the Cold War that the US government set up shop in Nebraska and had a majority amount of the 800 numbers located there. This means that Omaha was actually home to some of the largest call centers employing about 3,000 people in a single kind of like building complex just doing inbound calls. But why not Nebraska, I guess, is the bigger question. Well, it turns out during those days there was a bit of a contention between the government at large, the federal and the state government. The frequent advertising phrase except in Nebraska, however, will disappear in late April if the Federal Communications Commissions approves a more sophisticated method of classifying calls, the industry official said. And so the big contention was that it actually took two phone numbers because there was not only some like rules around trade when it comes to interstate versus within state rules, but there was also just like no technology. They were limited by the technology of their time. This article actually explains a little bit better. The line that closes the video except Nebraska, it is a detail most viewers today find hardest to parse. And it is part that most reveals the video's true dated context rather than any hidden meaning about Windows itself. It is a double- layered inside joke. American TV and radio ads of the period routinely carried a small print state exclusions. Void in Wisconsin, not available in some areas. So, the line first spoofs the convention outright, but it also nods to a genuine telecom
Watch from 2:46quirk of the Cold War era. Nebraska had unusually deep telephone trunk capacity because the military had built it up for the nuclear command redundancy and because toll-free lines of that time couldn't easily route both in-state and out of state calls altogether. Many national 1800 and number campaigns simply carved Nebraska out rather than run a separate line for it. I I do have to say that is incredible how much detail Balmer thought about when actually making these commercials. But even more funny is that these commercials are actually a spoof on another late night kind of television commercial person called Crazy Yeti. Get a color TV or a Sony Betamax or a TV video game. get it now because Crazy Eddie can't be beat with prices so low he's practically giving it all away. But surprisingly enough, that video is considered tame compared to this next video. Now, this next video starts off as if it were an Office drama of some sort, teaching you Microsoft 368. Now, apparently this was sent to a bunch of retailers to show them how useful Microsoft 368 is. But one internet comment made me a little bit curious. Microsoft sent this tape to retailers to explain the benefits of Windows 386. Boring until the 7-minute mark when the production is taken over by crack smoking monkeys. You know, we're going to have to watch this right now. They say the 7th minute mark is where things get a little bit weird. But actually, if you jump on to right around minute 2, you can see that this is going to be a bit odd of a way to sell Microsoft 386 because it turns into Mission
Watch from 4:18Impossible. Good morning, Linda. I hope you came in at a reasonable hour this morning and brought your brain cells with you. You'll recognize the picture. That's T-Bone Perkins, Wall Street's most notorious corporate raider. T-Bone is about to strike again, and his target this time is our largest client, Trans Global International Freight, TGIF. T-Bone will announce his intention to make an unfriendly takeover bid for TGIF, tomorrow morning, just before the market opens. Our mission, or should I say your mission, is to arm our client with a brilliant document that will persuade their stockholders to reject Mr. Perkins offer. DGIF's financials are on those discs. Did I mention that the completed report must be in my hands by 5:00? Good luck, Linda. I'm counting on you. Really, they actually copied a lot of the ideas from Mission Impossible, including the music, which I will not be playing for you right now. But what happens at minute 7? Like where does it go wrong? Well, may I present to you the full unabbridged Minute 7. I would just like to warn you ahead of time. Whatever you think is going to happen, you're wrong. Oh gosh, I'm sorry.
Watch from 5:49Okay, T-Bone. Time for some serious crunching. I'm using Windows. Windows Windows 386. So all my applications are running at once. My report right now is scattered all over my disco. Wo wo windows. We'll pull these parts together real quick. I got pieces in one spreadsheet. I got pieces in another. I got pieces that have never been close to one another. Some are in the database where things are pretty stuffy. Some are in the word processor. That's where it gets fluffy. Wo wo windows. Wo wo windows. Windows 386. We'll pull these parts together and do it mighty quick. I'll cut and paste. Cut and paste until it's in page maker. Then I'll slick it up to be heartbreaker. Here's a spreadsheet data you asked for. Linda. William. Linda. Uhoh. These are one, two, three files. That doesn't look like one, two, three. It's na na. One, two, two, three. But don't worry, William. Just hand the disc to me. I've got several applications looking mighty slick running under windows 386 in one of the windows. one.
Watch from 7:04You know, I had to interrupt this broadcast and clearly amazing musical talent here for a second to remind you this was sent out to retailers to convince them to purchase Windows 386. Unlike the Steve Balmer one, this was this was actually what they were this was the one where they're like, "You know what? This one's going to hit hard." Okay, that Steve Bomber one. Let's keep that one internal because this that was too weird. Okay, this on the other hand, this is going to get everybody just jonesing for some 386. And of course, my favorite line is talking about how hot spreadsheets are. Up in accounting, nothing ever looks hot. Poor guy, man. Poor guy. Okay, so let's go back to the Microsoft fat shaming Windows 95. Now, this actually is a full 50inute production teaching you how to use Windows 95. And they hired Matthew Perry and Jennifer Anderson. Of course, they were on top due to friends and so they thought that this was going to go hard. And yes, it's it's legitimately a tutorial for 50 minutes with just the the worst the worst possible jokes. Look, I meant for her to sit at the keyboard for a reason. Uh, Windows 95 is goofproof. All right.
Watch from 8:33Oh, pretty. Oh, and no messy DOSs buildup. What is this, a paper towel commercial? Well, what happens when you like had the old Windows and then installed Windows 95? That's a good question, honey. Okay. And where's the button that instantly kills anybody that calls me honey? Oh, that is your documents menu, which contains your recently used documents. Ah, documents menu. Is this where Bill Gates keeps the old Epstein files? I mean, it is his computer in the sitcom. Also, love that Bill's learning his shapes. I mean, triangles pretty difficult. Okay. I mean, I saw Celiss. They're a little confusing. Five-year plan. Clearly, we're about to start a conspiracy theory. It It was all AT PLAIN SIGHT. OH GOSH. WHO IS THAT? I don't know. But uh could he be any larger? It's Boris the window washer. Well, what's he saying? Uh windows. Window. He knows Oh, I know Windows. Oh, Boris is the true Windows expert at Microsoft. My god, he is a large large man. That man must be on a plank of steel. Well, Boris is also an expert at drive-thru windows. Sitting on a plank of steel. You know why? Cuz he's SO FAT. THEY'RE NOT EVEN FUNNY. ANYWAYS, this goes on for 56 minutes. I will uh you know, for for both of us, I'll stop here. But where the real good videos come from aren't uh these kind of advertising ones.
Watch from 9:48Apparently, there was a culture of internal videos. As you saw with the Bomber crazy Eddie kind of sales pitch, there became a tradition where Bill Gates and Steve Balmer would go out and do like a high school film level project where they would go and film company jokes. No, I'm not kidding you. the guy who makes approximately $1 million an hour would go and film just the silliest things. No, really, they did. They actually even tried to do a night at the Roxars. And I want you to notice something. First off, the the the rate is all wrong. And I would like to say that the car ride, no good. Okay, that is not good. No, seriously, let's compare and contrast them. We have Bill Gates and Steve Balmer on one side and we have Chris Katan and Will Ferrell on the other side. If you're going TO IF YOU'RE GOING TO impersonate Chris Katan, I at least expect a good one. Work on those dance moves, Bomber. Also, it was never the '9s without saying was. Sorry. As a millennial, I'm feeling secondhand embarrassment for that phrase. I am sorry for what happened. Okay, I was just a child. I know I know I'm not responsible. It's the Gen X's, but nonetheless, this was unleashed onto the world. Hello. Hey, Bill. What's up? WHAT'S UP? HEY, WHAT'S UP? What's up? What's up? I want you to just just think about this for a second. These two men have probably earned on average a million dollar an hour. This single project that they're doing right now is it's this is just this has to be the most expensive parody of all time. They ride scooters together just acting like
Watch from 11:11kids having a great time. They go down slides together. They push on swings together. But my more favorite part of this whole thing is where they try to show you what the future could look like. Hey, how you doing? Thanks for meeting me here. Pleasure. Pleasure. You want to go and get a couple things? Grab some stuff. I'll be ripe on Tuesday. I'm ripe right now. Hey, Kyle, check out this New York produce. Yeah. Sweet this. I do not want my fruit gone. Hey, I'll be ripe on Tuesday. Oh yeah, I'm I'm I'm ripe right now for you. Just put me in your mouth. I'm sorry. It's just so weird. Why Why do they make the FRUIT HAVE THIS VOICE? NOW, I KNOW THE quality of the videos I've shown you so far, they're not the greatest qualities, okay? forgive the 1995, but this one was actually captured during a like an all hands and it was Steve Balmer being in the Matrix. Now, the reason why I'm showing this to you is because they make actually a legendary joke. A joke that some could argue is still funny to this day.
Watch from 12:42I need you to write a new device driver and recompile a kernel for this. That's a pretty good joke, Aussie. Doing a Linux, you have to recap that. I will say Microsoft, you nailed it on that one. Now, not all the commercials went super well. There was a particular marketing commercial that um had an unfortunate circumstance. As you can see, you see people starting to run like what appears to be the classic Windows XP screen saver, and they're just flying. They're enjoying it. are going through the sky and enjoying kind of this big New York City and saying like, "Man, Windows XP, it makes you fly. It's incredible." Right? Well, the unfortunate part is that this video was created August 2001 and it was meant to be released November 2001. If you don't understand, they felt that it was poor taste to show people flying across the sky after September 11th, 2001. And as one insider put it, the original Windows XP commercial featuring Madonna's Ray of Light had to be abandoned less than two months before launch thanks to the events of September 11th, 2001. A commercial featuring people flying was deemed to be in bad taste so soon after the event. I don't know how they did it, but the marketing department managed to put together a new ad campaign in less than 2 months. This also explains why some online ads for Windows XP employed the song Ray of Light even though the song had nothing to do with the new
Watch from 14:02Windows XP ad campaign. They were leftovers which could be salvaged because they didn't depict flying. Too bad because I liked the original campaign. Hopefully at this point you understand why Steve Balmer is in fact the greatest CEO of Microsoft and why truly stock price does not map on to greatness. I don't think we're going to see Satia having internal videos only for all hands where they get to make fun of kind of cool pop references and then slowly leak out for us to all laugh at. I don't think it's going to happen. But I bet if Balmer was in charge today, it'd be going down right now. The day is the brim.
Watch from 15:32Full transcript
- 0:00
My name is Greta and we're going to be learning how to use Microsoft. Hey Wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's not what it looks like. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm just I'm just trying to learn Windows 95. Now, most of you are probably familiar with the famous Steve Balmer Windows commercial. How much do you think this advanced operating environment is worth? Wait just one minute before you answer. But most of you probably don't know. Why
- 0:22
not Nebraska? It's Windows FROM MICROSOFT. ORDER TODAY. P Box 286 DOS except in Nebraska. But that's not the only strange commercial from Microsoft. But it turns out they actually made tons of these. Nothing ever looks hot.
- 0:44
Stand back window.
- 1:05
If that wasn't weird enough, sometimes they just did fat PEOPLE JOKES. OH GOSH. Who is that? I don't know. But uh could he be any larger? It's Boris the window washer. It's the '9s, you know. Am I right? Now, I know a lot of you probably never forgot. My name is Greta and we're going to be learning how to use Microsoft's latest version of Windows called Windows 95.
- 1:27
But it keeps on going. We have Steve Balmer with Bill Gates making fun of Linux doing Matrix impersonations, A Night at the Roxberry, and even whatever that is. They even had a commercial that was cancelled due to 9/11. So, yes, we're going to go over some of these amazing 1990s commercials of Windows,
- 1:48
and I'll give you a little bit of the lore standing behind it. But before we do, a quick thank you to the sponsor. She's seen the latest database CEO monthly. Whoa, nice uptime. I'd love to get my data in that. You mean you haven't even connected yet? We can use my Planet Scale account. It's called Planet Scale and it's really rad. Those database queries are super
- 2:08
fast. Branches, migrations, query insights, too. My SQL and Postgress are easy to use. Yeah, go planet scale. Get data. Wik. It's Postgress. Planet Scale. The easiest MySQL or Postgress database to use. Your developers or parents help you hook it up. data sold separately. So, to get started, I think we have to
- 2:29
start where probably everybody's the most curious. Why Nebraska? Why could I not buy Windows 386 in Nebraska? So, it turns out that this right here actually was never put on television. It was actually an internal video. Apparently, this was the thing that they did during the Balmer era, which was to make amazing spoofs on like cultural moments.
- 2:49
And this particular moment had one thing that I mean, me personally, I found very confusing. Except in Nebraska. So, the backstory is a little bit strange. It turns out during the Cold War that the US government set up shop in Nebraska and had a majority amount of the 800 numbers located there. This means that Omaha was actually home to some of the largest call centers employing about 3,000
- 3:11
people in a single kind of like building complex just doing inbound calls. But why not Nebraska, I guess, is the bigger question. Well, it turns out during those days there was a bit of a contention between the government at large, the federal and the state government. The frequent advertising phrase except in Nebraska, however, will disappear in late April if the Federal Communications Commissions approves a
- 3:32
more sophisticated method of classifying calls, the industry official said. And so the big contention was that it actually took two phone numbers because there was not only some like rules around trade when it comes to interstate versus within state rules, but there was also just like no technology. They were limited by the technology of their time. This article actually explains a little bit better. The line that closes the
- 3:54
video except Nebraska, it is a detail most viewers today find hardest to parse. And it is part that most reveals the video's true dated context rather than any hidden meaning about Windows itself. It is a double- layered inside joke. American TV and radio ads of the period routinely carried a small print state exclusions. Void in Wisconsin, not available in some areas. So, the line
- 4:14
first spoofs the convention outright, but it also nods to a genuine telecom quirk of the Cold War era. Nebraska had unusually deep telephone trunk capacity because the military had built it up for the nuclear command redundancy and because toll-free lines of that time couldn't easily route both in-state and out of state calls altogether. Many national 1800 and number campaigns
- 4:34
simply carved Nebraska out rather than run a separate line for it. I I do have to say that is incredible how much detail Balmer thought about when actually making these commercials. But even more funny is that these commercials are actually a spoof on another late night kind of television commercial person called Crazy Yeti. Get a color TV or a Sony Betamax or a TV
- 4:57
video game. get it now because Crazy Eddie can't be beat with prices so low he's practically giving it all away. But surprisingly enough, that video is considered tame compared to this next video. Now, this next video starts off as if it were an Office drama of some sort, teaching you Microsoft 368. Now, apparently this was sent to a bunch of
- 5:18
retailers to show them how useful Microsoft 368 is. But one internet comment made me a little bit curious. Microsoft sent this tape to retailers to explain the benefits of Windows 386. Boring until the 7-minute mark when the production is taken over by crack smoking monkeys. You know, we're going to have to watch this right now. They say the 7th minute mark is where things
- 5:39
get a little bit weird. But actually, if you jump on to right around minute 2, you can see that this is going to be a bit odd of a way to sell Microsoft 386 because it turns into Mission Impossible. Good morning, Linda. I hope you came in at a reasonable hour this morning and brought your brain cells with you. You'll recognize the picture. That's T-Bone Perkins, Wall Street's most
- 6:01
notorious corporate raider. T-Bone is about to strike again, and his target this time is our largest client, Trans Global International Freight, TGIF. T-Bone will announce his intention to make an unfriendly takeover bid for TGIF, tomorrow morning, just before the market opens. Our mission, or should I
- 6:22
say your mission, is to arm our client with a brilliant document that will persuade their stockholders to reject Mr. Perkins offer. DGIF's financials are on those discs. Did I mention that the completed report must be in my hands by 5:00? Good luck, Linda. I'm counting on you. Really, they actually copied a lot of
- 6:43
the ideas from Mission Impossible, including the music, which I will not be playing for you right now. But what happens at minute 7? Like where does it go wrong? Well, may I present to you the full unabbridged Minute 7. I would just like to warn you ahead of time. Whatever you think is going to happen, you're wrong. Oh gosh, I'm sorry.
- 7:04
Okay, T-Bone. Time for some serious crunching. I'm using Windows. Windows Windows 386. So all my applications are running at once. My report right now is scattered
- 7:24
all over my disco. Wo wo windows. We'll pull these parts together real quick. I got pieces in one spreadsheet. I got pieces in another. I got pieces that have never been close to one another. Some are in the database where things are pretty stuffy. Some are in the word processor. That's where it gets fluffy. Wo wo windows. Wo wo windows.
- 7:45
Windows 386. We'll pull these parts together and do it mighty quick. I'll cut and paste. Cut and paste until it's in page maker. Then I'll slick it up to be heartbreaker. Here's a spreadsheet data you asked for.
- 8:06
Linda. William. Linda. Uhoh. These are one, two, three files. That doesn't look like one, two, three. It's na na. One, two, two, three. But don't worry, William. Just hand the disc to me. I've got several applications looking mighty
- 8:26
slick running under windows 386 in one of the windows. one. You know, I had to interrupt this broadcast and clearly amazing musical talent here for a second to remind you this was sent out to retailers to convince them to purchase Windows 386. Unlike the Steve Balmer one, this
- 8:51
was this was actually what they were this was the one where they're like, "You know what? This one's going to hit hard." Okay, that Steve Bomber one. Let's keep that one internal because this that was too weird. Okay, this on the other hand, this is going to get everybody just jonesing for some 386. And of course, my favorite line is talking about how hot spreadsheets are. Up in accounting, nothing ever looks
- 9:13
hot. Poor guy, man. Poor guy. Okay, so let's go back to the Microsoft fat shaming Windows 95. Now, this actually is a full 50inute production teaching you how to use Windows 95. And they hired Matthew Perry and Jennifer Anderson. Of course, they were on top due to friends and so they thought that this was going to go
- 9:34
hard. And yes, it's it's legitimately a tutorial for 50 minutes with just the the worst the worst possible jokes. Look, I meant for her to sit at the keyboard for a reason. Uh, Windows 95 is goofproof. All right. Oh, pretty. Oh, and no messy DOSs buildup. What is this, a paper towel commercial?
- 9:54
Well, what happens when you like had the old Windows and then installed Windows 95? That's a good question, honey. Okay. And where's the button that instantly kills anybody that calls me honey? Oh, that is your documents menu, which contains your recently used documents. Ah, documents menu. Is this where Bill Gates keeps the old Epstein files? I mean, it is his computer in the sitcom.
- 10:14
Also, love that Bill's learning his shapes. I mean, triangles pretty difficult. Okay. I mean, I saw Celiss. They're a little confusing. Five-year plan. Clearly, we're about to start a conspiracy theory. It It was all AT PLAIN SIGHT. OH GOSH. WHO IS THAT? I don't know. But uh could he be any larger? It's Boris the window washer. Well, what's he saying?
- 10:37
Uh windows. Window. He knows Oh, I know Windows. Oh, Boris is the true Windows expert at Microsoft. My god, he is a large large man. That man must be on a plank of steel. Well, Boris is also an expert at drive-thru windows. Sitting on a plank of steel. You know
- 10:57
why? Cuz he's SO FAT. THEY'RE NOT EVEN FUNNY. ANYWAYS, this goes on for 56 minutes. I will uh you know, for for both of us, I'll stop here. But where the real good videos come from aren't uh these kind of advertising ones. Apparently, there was a culture of internal videos. As you saw with the Bomber crazy Eddie kind of sales pitch, there became a tradition where Bill
- 11:18
Gates and Steve Balmer would go out and do like a high school film level project where they would go and film company jokes. No, I'm not kidding you. the guy who makes approximately $1 million an hour would go and film just the silliest things. No, really, they did. They actually even tried to do a night at the Roxars. And I want you to notice
- 11:38
something. First off, the the the rate is all wrong. And I would like to say that the car ride, no good. Okay, that is not good. No, seriously, let's compare and contrast them. We have Bill Gates and Steve Balmer on one side and we have Chris Katan and Will Ferrell on the other side. If you're going TO IF YOU'RE GOING TO impersonate Chris Katan, I at least expect a good one. Work on those dance moves, Bomber. Also, it was
- 11:58
never the '9s without saying was. Sorry. As a millennial, I'm feeling secondhand embarrassment for that phrase. I am sorry for what happened. Okay, I was just a child. I know I know I'm not responsible. It's the Gen X's, but nonetheless, this was unleashed onto the world. Hello.
- 12:19
Hey, Bill. What's up? WHAT'S UP? HEY, WHAT'S UP? What's up? What's up? I want you to just just think about this for a second. These two men have probably earned on average a million dollar an hour. This single project that they're doing right now is it's this is just this has to be the most expensive parody of all time. They
- 12:39
ride scooters together just acting like kids having a great time. They go down slides together. They push on swings together. But my more favorite part of this whole thing is where they try to show you what the future could look like. Hey, how you doing? Thanks for meeting me here. Pleasure. Pleasure. You want to go and get a couple things?
- 12:59
Grab some stuff. I'll be ripe on Tuesday. I'm ripe right now. Hey, Kyle, check out this New York produce. Yeah. Sweet this. I do not want my fruit gone. Hey, I'll
- 13:21
be ripe on Tuesday. Oh yeah, I'm I'm I'm ripe right now for you. Just put me in your mouth. I'm sorry. It's just so weird. Why Why do they make the FRUIT HAVE THIS VOICE? NOW, I KNOW THE quality of the videos I've shown you so far, they're not the greatest qualities, okay? forgive the 1995, but this one was actually captured
- 13:43
during a like an all hands and it was Steve Balmer being in the Matrix. Now, the reason why I'm showing this to you is because they make actually a legendary joke. A joke that some could argue is still funny to this day. I need you to write a new device driver
- 14:05
and recompile a kernel for this. That's a pretty good joke, Aussie. Doing a Linux, you have to recap that. I will say Microsoft, you nailed it on that one. Now, not all the commercials went super well. There was a particular marketing commercial that um had an
- 14:26
unfortunate circumstance. As you can see, you see people starting to run like what appears to be the classic Windows XP screen saver, and they're just flying. They're enjoying it. are going through the sky and enjoying kind of this big New York City and saying like, "Man, Windows XP, it makes you fly. It's incredible." Right? Well, the
- 14:46
unfortunate part is that this video was created August 2001 and it was meant to be released November 2001. If you don't understand, they felt that it was poor taste to show people flying across the sky after September 11th, 2001. And as one insider put it, the original Windows XP commercial featuring Madonna's Ray of
- 15:08
Light had to be abandoned less than two months before launch thanks to the events of September 11th, 2001. A commercial featuring people flying was deemed to be in bad taste so soon after the event. I don't know how they did it, but the marketing department managed to put together a new ad campaign in less than 2 months. This also explains why some online ads for Windows XP employed
- 15:28
the song Ray of Light even though the song had nothing to do with the new Windows XP ad campaign. They were leftovers which could be salvaged because they didn't depict flying. Too bad because I liked the original campaign. Hopefully at this point you understand why Steve Balmer is in fact the greatest CEO of Microsoft and why truly stock price does not map on to
- 15:48
greatness. I don't think we're going to see Satia having internal videos only for all hands where they get to make fun of kind of cool pop references and then slowly leak out for us to all laugh at. I don't think it's going to happen. But I bet if Balmer was in charge today, it'd be going down right now. The day is the brim.
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Sources:
• Windows XP - The Commercial That Started I...
• Microsoft Matrix Spoof
• Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Playday FULL ...
• Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer Night at the Ro...
• Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide with Jenn...
• Microsoft Windows/386 Promotional Video [H...
• Windows 1.0 with Steve Ballmer (1986) (HQ,...
• A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY Vogue Dance Car Scene
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