Gizmodo
You've gotta wonder how, in a company the size of Microsoft, there's not a single person who has the balls to step up and say "Hey, you know what? This Vista music video we're making for the sales department, complete with a cheesy Bruce Springsteen impersonator and horrible music, damages the dignity of not only everyone involved in its production, but everyone who watches it." Seriously, how did this little slice of cringe-inducing embarrassment ever get made? What year is this? I need to lie down. I'm sorry. Check the video after the jump. UPDATE: The video is an internal spoof, an insider confirms. First: Good for them saving their sense of style and decency and humor. Second: Could they please not spend the money staging fake concerts and really good spoof videos and keep the SP patch works coming? We kid because we love XP!
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Epic Fail.
Are you honestly that surprised? I got 4 words for you:
"WUH-WUH-WUH-WINDOWS... THREEEE-EIGHTY-SIX!!!"
Oh dear god.
Who the F makes these videos...it can't be easy to be that cheesey...it really must take some/a lot of effort!
The Mac guy is right. Very right. Windows is for crusty old white dudes in bad suits.
Wow.
But seriously... what production value! Maybe they should put some of that money toward Product Development.
Most Viral video in Cupertino
Just as good as vista itself.
yo. I just got to the Courtney Cox part. Yo. That is not Courtney Cox.
SP1 Rocks. SP1 licks rocks, maybe....
Stillborn in the USA.
dear Lord, I think I need to take a break after that one.
Classic Microsoft-speak lyrics.
Why are they so out of touch...
Ouch. I want my 3 minutes back. I swear I would've guessed that was at least 10 minutes long..
oh my...
Here's what I think happened:
Whoever they paid to put this together made this one as a joke, so when Microsoft said 'What the hell is this crap?' they could say it was a joke and hand them the real one which they had with them the whole time...
Except Microsoft never said anything, so they just kinda had to keep their mouth shut and sneak away.
Though - you do have to appreciate their actual use of the 'enthusiastic jump into the air and freeze frame' (00:58)
I'm posting this before actually watching the video.
If I don't make it, please call Danny Williams and tell him I'm sorry about that time in the cafeteria. We were kids, and I thought it was hilarious as hell.
Dear sweet holy mother of Jesus Christ on a crutch. That is the most phenomenally lame video I have ever seen in my 51 years of living. And I lived through the Eighties.
If I were Bruce Springsteen I would be suing for defamation of character right about now.
Looks like an average SNL skit to me.
Sooooooooooooooooooooo Lame
looooooooooooooooooooserssssss
On the plus side... I am going to randomly post 'Our Ecosystem Rocks!' from here on out... Take THAT 'Will it blend?'!
Is the world coming to an end?
Wow, just wow. I got about halfway through before the convulsions forced me to stop.
Hey, at least it wasn't Ballmer singing!
I'm convinced that Microsoft has a fetish to produce absolute rubbish, shitty videos. God! These people are just, oh well...
forget waterboarding, this takes the cake
I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth
Did I sell poison to children in another life.... What did I do to deserve this
The sad thing is that Steve Ballmer probably believes every word of that soi-disant "song."
Let's see... Vista promises to give you everything Linux actually delivers, but at an epic price, instead of for free.
Yeah, that will rock the Accounting offices worldwide.
This is why our Country/Corporations is losing ground in the world. It all started with bike helmets. We need to clone and resurrect Teddy Roosevelt and get this thing turned around.
How sad it must be to be a performer and know that this is the best it will get for me. I think after making this that band should retire.
@Hvedhrungr: LOL , do it!! do it!!
The sad part is that they actually PAID to make that video!! They paid the actors, the cameramen, the production crew. Hell, they may have even paid Springsteen to rip off the original. But the paid ACTUAL money to make that piece of crap.
?????????
After seeing that I think Kodak's campaign isn't too bad. Either that or I've been drinking too much of the Kool-aide.
oh for fucks sake, is there a single black man that works for Microshit? They couldn't find one for the Clarence Clemmons part ?!
OMG! No words...
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bahahaha. Windows is for uber dorks. Long live everything non-microsoft!!!
The biggest insult to The Boss that I have ever seen. "Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band"??? Honestly?!
Blaaaaaarrrrrgghhhhhhh! plopity plop plop BLLAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH plop plop plop oh my god! BBBBBLLLLLLLAAAAARRRRRHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGG!
HAHA, ITS LIKE THE PC GUY TRIED TO MAKE A VIDEO! I hope apple uses this in an ad! hahaha!
That made me give back lunch, in a projectile form.
If Apple ran that as a trojan horse ad, Apple marketshare would go to 100%.
@nojo: Great line!
I can honestly say I like this Vista video almost as much as the OS. I can see MS has a new standard for hiring help. 99 cents an hour seems to the the standard and sometimes you get what you pay for.
Here's a link, in case anyone missed seeing this gem:
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Their ecosystem sucks. Hands down, worst video evah. How do they think something like that will actually HELP them sell more copies of that crappy bloated POS OS?
I quite enjoyed it.
// at a loss for words
That's the sort of creative work you get when you use Windows!
Their version of "cool" involves old white men in suits shaking hands. And what would appeal to these people? Bruce Springsteen, of course!
Seriously, try to find the cool people in this video. The kind of people that you see in marketing campaigns from just about any other company. They aren't there.
@Boognish: Wait? No... wait!? Did Kodak make this, or is someone making fun of Kodak? I don't understand! Please help.
I mean, seriously, it was brilliantly funny. My appreciation for Microsoft just went up several notches.
They could have at least cast Mel from Flight of the Conchords as the groupie.
M$ is infested with MBA douchebags who couldn't sell their way out of a paper bag.
On the bright side - with $oftware $ellers this completely and bizarrely out of touch maybe there's hope for Open/Free Software.
I think the kool aide went bad at microsloth (yes microsloth 5 years behind)
I was waiting for the camera to zoom back to show that Bruce Springsteen is in the desert and the concert is an oasis. Then we zoom back further and the desert is a sandbox in the world's largest resort hotel. We zoom back further,and the world's largest resort hotel hotel is actually a playground in the world's largest prison.
ffs, christ that is bad.
that was fucking painful to watch
*Nods his head down*: OMG, :(
This falls right in line with every Microsoft employee I've ever met. If you hire every lame yes man you find, you end up with a company that produces crap like this.
That video made me constipated.
@nightsky: Kodak made it.
I got nothin. That just sucked the life right outta me.
I think the video is great. I know that they are talking to their internal sales team and they're all dorky. It's just for fun and not for the public. Internal sales and marketing. No problem. I think it's funny.
i just went blind in my left eye...
Just my guess, but the goal of the video was to make us watch and learn the message. Cheesy Yes, and now we know about vista sp1. I only could watch 51 seconds worth.