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W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Remember those Windows 7 parties?

I think I can dig it.

Maddus Mattus
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

I rember when they launched 95 back in 1995 Big Smile

My dad came running up to me with the newspaper;

Check this out son!

There was this huge multipage add in it. Something about lines of code and pizza's consumed. And the final page was just this BIG A$$ start button.

Beats this party thing hands down,..

figuerres
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In reply to Maddus Mattus

#Sep 24th @ 3:05 AM

Heh i kind of wish i had kept the stuff they sent the store i worked in back then.

we had a huge poster that was like 3 foot wide and 6 foot tall - or some huge size like that.

and a fake "windows 95" box that was also way big.

we were a small shop - not a chain. but i got us windows beta copies and we had like 3 shipping boxes of 95 and NFR copies for the store on launch day..... we sold a ton of 95 to gamers who had seen us running DOS games from windows 95 w/o any problems.

we also had at least 30 or 40 gamers come in and pay us to show them how to setup games to run from 95.

we had some that just ran and some that did a go-to-dos-mode thing....

we were doing it with the beta in the store for like a month before the release date.

and the rolling stones lanuch song -- Start Me Up!

wish 7 had a cool lauch song / event like that.....

Maddus Mattus
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

In reply to figuerres

#Sep 24th @ 3:34 AM

I think the Windows 95 launched has spoiled us Wink

Ray7

What was all the bleeping for?

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to Ray7

#Sep 24th @ 6:10 AM

Sorry, I should have linked to Cabel's blog first.

Ray7

In reply to W3bbo

#Sep 24th @ 6:15 AM

Okay, so it wasn't me; it just isn't funny, fair enough.

To be honest, I got a bigger hoot out of the original. Microsoft has just completely redefined the word 'naff'.

I mean why would anyone want to host a party, in their house, for an operating system launch?

No one asked me to host a launch party for our steam iron.

spivonious

In reply to Ray7

#Sep 24th @ 6:21 AM

Oh come on, Ray, it'll be fun! Aren't most of your techy friends excited about Win7 anyway?

harumscarum
out of memory

Where is the asian?

Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

In reply to harumscarum

#Sep 24th @ 6:45 AM

In Bill Clintons office.

CreamFilling512

In reply to Ray7

#Sep 24th @ 6:21 AM

I actually know a few people who are doing this, they might be doing it ironically, I don't know.

rhm

In reply to CreamFilling512

#Sep 24th @ 2:14 PM

The Microsoft marketing videos make me want to self-harm. They're that bad.

I know it's been seen a thousand times, but I think it's particularly appropriate in this instance.

Maddus Mattus
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

In reply to rhm

#Sep 24th @ 2:21 PM

I don't like marketing people either. We also have people in our company, bending the truth for marketing purposes. All that ever does is let people down once they realize the truth. Kinda like "The WOW starts now!".

That's why I love channel9. It's an actual look inside Microsoft, without the gradients, the braziers, the bevels and the political correct african american, women, asian and indian.

Actual work done by actual people. I think that's always been Microsoft's power, but I think they are trying to hard to mimic Apple in making it snappy. No need for that.

AndyC

In reply to Maddus Mattus

#Sep 25th @ 12:04 AM

And yet I've seen that video linked all over the place. Sure lots of them are of the "this is so bad you have to see it" sort, but as a piece of viral advertising it has clearly worked.

rhm

In reply to AndyC

#Sep 25th @ 2:12 AM

Some people say that advertising is sucessful if it only makes you aware of the product. I think when it makes you despise the company that made it, and by extension curse humanity for letting it happen at all, it's not as sucessful.