derek | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 08 2007 | microsoft, video, windows, nostalgia, 80s, funny, scaryPure insanity -- if you haven't yet seen this Microsoft video, with some 80s style Windows/386 rapping, it's ... well, eat lunch at your desk today. Don't deprive yourself of this 12 minute gem.
The post I'm linking to has some background info on the video.
Quoted: So apparently there's something going on today in New York City (I don't know what it is, since I'm not invited :)). However, a couple of weeks ago, someone dug up a piece of Microsoft nostalgia and posted it on Google Videos. I saw the first couple of
derek | Shared With: Everyone - May 09 2007 | microsoft, video, apple, iphone, funny
click to playChuckle ... I like the GDI guy.
Quoted: Microsoft's crazy design for a new mobile phone, one that is sure to knock Apple's iPhone out of the water.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 29 2007 | apple, microsoft, ads, video
UK Mac vs. PC ads ... the PC character is likable here too.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 16 2006 | video, soapbox, microsoft, me too!
This site is really impressive -- upon signing up, I get a blank page with script / HTML errors. Upon inspection, I find:
Quoted: <!-- ERROR, Live.GadgetFramework: The initial connection between the Live Frontend and the Resource Server could not be made. -->
Watch out GoogTube! Or not.
Quoted: There is more than one way to share a video online. :-) We sat down with Rob Bennett from the MSN Soapbox Team where he answered our questions and gave us a demo of the web site and device experience.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 23 2006 | microsoft, ricky gervais, the office, video
Looking forward to watching this tonight ... need my UK Office fix somehow :)
Quoted: Microsoft UK may have a viral hit on its hands after filming a spoof training video about Office with comedian Ricky Gervais. Gervais is most ...
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 02 2006 | video, microsoft, vista, ouch
click to playLOL, voice "wreckognition" in Vista. I've used it a fair amount, and it works quite well for recognition (against a defined grammar, that is) -- obviously it doesn't work as well for _dictation_, which is what he was trying to do there. It's never been as bad as it was in the video though ... WOW.
Quoted: What happens when Vista goes live
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 13 2006 | kexp, microsoft, on10, video
Microsoft has a new site highlighting technologies that people use. Their first -- KEXP. Kind of cool to see inside their studios, but I'm disappointed that thousands of subscriber dollars have gone to pay for SQL Server.
Quoted: Tina and Laura take a tour of KEXP 90.3, an independent radio station that streams live over the internet. No sponsors, no commercials just whatever the DJ wants to play, streaming out to a global...
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 28 2006 | microsoft, apple, ipod, marketing, video
This is terrific -- a video of Microsoft re-designing the iPod packaging. It's an interesting illustration of the difference in the respective companies' marketing philosophies ... amusing, but not too unrealistic.
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