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Posted by unregistered user at 4/16/08 2:36 p.m.

OMG OMG OMG

Posted by Hammtime at 4/16/08 4:20 p.m.

LOL!

I'm sure it must have seemed like a good idea at the time! Hilarious!

Posted by unregistered user at 4/16/08 4:51 p.m.

The most painful video ever made, period!

Posted by ffextensionguru at 4/16/08 5:23 p.m.

When Microsoft Marketing Goes Mad...

Posted by CrowTRobot at 4/16/08 5:24 p.m.

All that is missing are the Mystery Science Theater 3000 robots (and Mike or Joel) silhouettes at the bottom of the movie making wise cracks. Priceless...

Posted by unregistered user at 4/16/08 5:40 p.m.

Gotta wonder about the quality of Microsoft hires these days...scraping at the bottom of the barrel!

Posted by unregistered user at 4/16/08 6:36 p.m.

Very Cool. It's actually entertaining.

Any estimates of the marketing expenditure or cost of video?

Reminds me of the Bruce Springsteen video. Born to run I believe.

Who's the guy in the suit?

Posted by unregistered user at 4/16/08 6:58 p.m.

I have no intention of getting Vista now or in the near/far future. Too slow, too much bloat, nothing innovative, more steps to accomplish the same things that XP does with less steps, etc. That said, I liked this video, it was lively, clever and not really corny at all. Even the Evil Empire can get it right...sometimes.

Posted by JimH at 4/16/08 9:46 p.m.

Lots of companies make goofy, laughably awkward videos to pump up the troops at meetings. I have endured a few and they even got some laughs from the target audience. I think the critical trick to remember, though, is to frisk everybody at the meeting for video cameras and any electronic recorders, then make sure you destroy the original and hire somebody to "disappear" the video production crew.

But, man, that was some video. Prize winner.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 12:31 a.m.

I expected the worst, but I kinda like it.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 7:48 a.m.

It not only took my breath away, it took away my will to live!

Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 7:58 a.m.

I kept waiting for Weird Al to appear. Reminds me of "White and Nerdy" except Donny Osmond is a better dancer.

Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 2:26 p.m.

Come on Todd - you've been to enough Microsoft meetings that you've seen plenty of videos like this that are created for humor or motivation and 99% of the time for internal viewing only... though whoever let this one escape is probably looking for a new job right now as it doesn't look like a camcorder in the audience job..

Posted by unregistered user at 4/17/08 2:29 p.m.

These type of videos are not for external consumption. They are for events like the yearly company meeting. There is a long of history at MS of doing these type of videos for internal meetings and functions. I think this one is kind of funny but there have been worst ones made. ^.^