Classic Microsoft Videos
Todd Bishop, the Seattle PI’s Microsoft Reporter, has a great roundup of Microsoft videos available online. When you’re as large as the Redmond software giant there apparently are plenty of opportunities to do awkward commercial parodies (not unlike this place):
While we’re on the top of Billy G., it’s important to remember he’s got a whole drawer in the ghosts of geeks past file cabinet.
December 30th, 2006 at 2:19 am
I did not quite get that commercial. :S Was what it for? The internet in general!?
December 30th, 2006 at 11:08 am
The former CEO of Sun was a guy named Scott McNealy. He was less known for his business acumen than he was for his frequent public bashing of Microsoft (check out the video here: http://news.com.com/1606-2-6064931.html - but be warned - Scott is about as good of comedian as he was business leader; in other words, not good).
In the commercial above (sorry for the poor quality) you can just barely make out that the computer that Ballmer and Gates pick up is a SUN desktop. Like the original VW commercial that they’re parodying, they’re saying that one has to be careful that what you get for free doesn’t stink.
And there is Ballmer trying to ‘groove’ to the music.
May 7th, 2007 at 2:02 am
I went to school for computer tech and one the things we learn in school was the history of bill gates. Back in his college days him and his friend came up with the idear for wondows. after makeing windows guess what he did? He ran off with the program called “window” and had it publish without his friend. bill gates and his xp to me stands for eXPerinece crook. He looks so good in the public eye but like any rotton egg its hard to tell if its rotton or not till you Crack it.