The New York Times is running a photo taken by Ramin Talaie of Bloomberg News. The photo shows Kevin B. Rollins of Dell, Sean Maloney of Intel, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, Hisatsugu Nonaka of Toshiba, Hector Ruiz of Advanced Micro Devices and Todd Bradley of Hewlett-Packard at the big kick-off for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system on Monday in New York:
A picture paints a thousand words:
Larger image via The New York Times here.
MacDailyNews Take: Wow. Enthusiasm is contagious – and so is the lack of it.
See also: No huge crowds for midnight Vista launch – BusinessWeek, January 30, 2007
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Two of them look like they’re asleep.
The banner behind should say: “The Wow starts now. I said NOW!”
Maybe the stools are not comfortable or something. These people look like they are in pain.
“Two of them look like they’re asleep.”
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The rest of them have been to enough windows-events to sleep with their eyes open
Wow, what bitter looking group of old, grey men….
Hey,
AMD? No Intel? Heh. Guess Monkeyboy didn’t like my appearing in a bunny suit at the WWDC in June of 2005?
Losers.
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Some body needs to submit this to Jay Leno … LOL!!!
MDN: this is an instant classic – PLEASE start using it with all Vista stories!
2 of them look like they are not alive anymore…
Wake me up when the ‘wow’ portion starts.
Yeah…that pretty much sums up how the world feels about Vista — it’s kinda like a prostate exam — you know you have to get it eventually, but you’re not exactly excited about it.
But seriously, I really want to know, are there any features in Vista that we don’t already have in OSX, I mean they can’t have had absolutly NO innovation over the past what? 5 years? I am just curious.
hey paul O. check the photo caption again. You sent a flunky to stand in for you
Why does it look like they’re all hiding their dicks?
Their obviously affraid to get-up out of their chairs in-case Uncle Fester starts throwing the stools about the place…
…a case of ‘the stool hits the fan-boy…’
(d’ya think Zune-Tang was there..?)
Big deal. Would you be enthusiastic if you’d spent a million man hours on copying your main competitors setup – only to figure that most of the press is laughing at your inabilities? Didn’t think so. Would you be enthusiastic if you shared the stage with the CEO of a company mainly known for their lack of innovation. No? Didn’t thinks so.
Yes, he was there; third from the left.
Wow! It took that long for this turd? (First the Zune, now this. Try some Ex-lax next time.)
Nothing screams excitement like a bunch of old bored men in suits.
zzzzzzz..mmmbfff? huh? What?…Oh yeah, “wow”.
In Cleveland’s suburb of Brooklyn, Ohio, about 300 people braved 20 degree weather for a midnight celebration at Best Buy, which arranged free hot dogs and autographs from former Cleveland Browns player Bob Golic. About 35 Vista packages were sold…
I’m from 90 miles south of Cleveland. I feel confident in saying that of the 300 people, 250 showed up to shake Golic’s hand and 20 showed up for hot dogs then bought Vista on impulse. If they’d have had free pierogi, there would have been 300 more people lined up.
M$ is a POS company is not a future company like Apple,M$ should get retired and fired.
Moof!
mw: period.. as in the picture is all you need, period.
Where’s monkey boy when you need him.
“WHO SAID SIT DOWN!!!!!”
I’ve heard that Bill Gates is so confident with the Vista rollout that he’s had the letter ‘W’ tattoed on both ass-cheeks (if you can imagine a naked Billy-boy bending over to display his ‘WoW’ factor without throwing up, you’ve a stronger stomach than I).
I’ve also heard that being a dutiful (but short-sighted) son, Uncle Fester always kisses his Mom on both cheeks when he greets her.
And as Bill is an eternal joker, and is an ace at naked handstands, likes to play the odd joke on Bullmer…
“Hey Steve, pucker-up and give your old MoM a kiss…”