Microsoft, taking the initiative once again

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:


YouTube link

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.

Martin Coxall says:

Oh, the huge manatee!

Jonas says:

I hope you're joking about that being a good example of marketing!

Emmanuele says:

@jonas: that loud bang you heard was the sarcasm of this post breaking the sound barrier whilst flying right over your head.

esauro says:

I think this one is much better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHjT5-XM9o

mimoune djouallah says:

lol

sallustiobis says:

Terrible video. Even RMS's free software song beats it easily.
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=xSkCny-HtTw
Sarcasm on the web is a risky business.

Chris Sherlock says:

Damn that's bad.

remm says:

I suppose if I was blind, I couldn't read this blog, so all is good.

Travis Reitter says:

Awesome - now I have to claw my eyes and ears out.

DeeJay1 says:

You do remember the Qt 4 Dance, do you? ;)

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 :)

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.

rvl says:

Is that Julia Zemiro playing the tambourine?

Any comments?