Comments on: Microsoft to pitch Windows 7 via home parties

By: enzos

enzos — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:55:20 +0000

Charlie Brooker goes to town..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/charlie-brooker-microsoft-mac-windows
>Until now. Microsoft, hellbent on tackling the conspicuous lack of word-of-mouth recommendation, is encouraging people – real people – to host “Windows 7 launch parties” to celebrate the 22 October release of, er, Windows 7. The idea is that you invite a group of friends – your real friends – to your home – your real home – and entertain them with a series of Windows 7 tutorials. So you show them how to burn a CD, how to make a little video, how to change the wallpaper, and how to, oh no, hang on it’s not supposed to do that, oh, I think it’s frozen, um, er, let me just, um, no that’s not it, um, er, um, er, so how’s it going with you and Kathy anyway, um, er, OK well see you around I guess.
To assist the party-hosting massive, they’ve also uploaded a series of spectacularly cringeworthy videos to YouTube, in which the four most desperate actors in the world stand around in a kitchen sharing tips on how best to indoctrinate guests in the wonder of Windows. If they were staring straight down the lens reading hints off a card it might be acceptable; instead they have been instructed to pretend to be friends. The result is the most nauseating display of artificial camaraderie since the horrific Doritos “Friendchips” TV campaign (which caused 50,000 people to kill themselves in 2003, or should have done).
It’s so terrible, it induces an entirely new emotion: a blend of vertigo, disgust, anger and embarrassment which I like to call “shitasmia”. It not only creates this emotion: it defines it. It’s the most shitasmic cultural artefact in history. Watch it for yourself.

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:13:30 +0000

I like the latest video of how to do a Windows Vista Seven Party. It's hilarious.

By: warlock7

warlock7 — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:27:06 +0000

OMGoodness. The over-exaggerated “handy-cam without visual stabilization” feel is almost as nauseating as the user experience of Windows 7… how awkwardly appropriate.

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:51:55 +0000

Get Windows 7 and pass it around to your friends.

It sounds like you are talking about a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD).

Seems soo familiar. MicroSoft appears to be trying to play to the only product image they have … virus laden.

Okay, so it’s not a sexually transmitted disease. In fact, my guess is that anyone who would want to hold one of these parties, probably isn’t capable of procreating, because they don’t have any interest in sex.

By: XMD

XMD — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:02:14 +0000

I had goose bumps watching it and had to skip through it. Mr. Ballmer needs to take a trip to Tennessee to get a brain transplant. It shouldn’t take too long to line up for one because he clearly is the one who needs it most.

By: iLogic

iLogic — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:53:03 +0000

In my opinion, this marketing ad is distasteful. It would be 10x cooler to take the lead in throwing your own party and then having people join in through Windows 7 on monitors all over your launch party. I’m not in marketing but I do believe that it would get old quickly no matter how you splice it.

The Bill Gates autograph is tempting, just on the fact that you would capture technological history.

By: pa

pa — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:25:07 +0000

How on earth do corporations take this company seriously is beyond me. And they bend over backward to put up with its products’ shortcomings.

By: Microsoft Is Out Of Touch -

Microsoft Is Out Of Touch - — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:00:23 +0000

[...] Is Out Of Touch Sep 24th, 2009 | By Brian C. Ledbetter | Category: Daily Fodder Seriously, this looks like one of the most horrendous ideas I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot of Grade-A Stupid in my lifetime. Microsoft is promoting the release of [...]

By: Snapped Shot

Snapped Shot — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:54:00 +0000

Microsoft Is Out Of Touch…

Seriously, this looks like one of the most horrendous ideas I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot of Grade-A Stupid in my lifetime.

Microsoft is promoting the release of Windows 7 by encouraging users to throw Tupperware-like house parties in celeb…

By: secondbassman

secondbassman — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:10:10 +0000

What a laughable mess. Kinda reminds me of the old Spindler-iffic Performa infomercials from the 90’s, except those were at least mildly entertaining.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khc3XLkbxMU