As those who've read my past blog posts may have ascertained, I love Windows Vista. It trumps Gnome (and KDE of course, but that's a given) in just about every way, and once again, Microsoft are taking the initiative in what must be one of the best examples of viral marketing ever:
Why hasn't the free/open-source movement copied this? We've copied just about everything else, I think we'd see much greater success if we concentrated on marketing too. This video is a great example of why Microsoft are winning the OS war.
I suppose if I was blind, I couldn't read this blog, so all is good.
Thu Apr 17 14:04:15 2008
Travis Reitter says:
Awesome - now I have to claw my eyes and ears out.
Thu Apr 17 17:16:53 2008
DeeJay1 says:
You do remember the Qt 4 Dance, do you? ;)
Thu Apr 17 17:48:31 2008
Peteris Krisjanis says:
Damn, this is some serious rocker here. But they overdid it, didn't they :)
Needed some reality check before commenting on this :)
Thu Apr 17 19:58:20 2008
sdf says:
the reg hits it on the head (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/vista_video_mocks_bruce/):
Those of you not able to sit through to the end of this painful, stomach-churning experience from Microsoft can rest-assured that we at El Reg, after several failed attempts, managed to watch it to the eye-bleeding end in which the band sings: ...
So there you have it, it's nice to see that Microsoft is laughing at Vista too.