“Remember high school–cool kids went to parties and had fun while nerds hung out at math club and played Dungeons and Dragons? Well, the two don’t mix,” Bradley writes. “Hosting a party where you play Dungeons and Dragons or discuss algebraic functions doesn’t make you cool just because you put the word ‘party’ on it.”
“Microsoft has had many failed attempts at being hip and cool. Microsoft Bob. The Office paperclip character. The Bill Gates / Jerry Seinfeld ads that seemed to require some sort of psychotropic mind enhancement in order for them to make sense,” Bradley writes. “It just doesn’t work.”
Bradley writes, “Apple is cool. I don’t agree with the premise of many of the Apple ‘I’m a Mac’ ads, but I almost always find them entertaining and compelling. Apple didn’t waste any time coming out with a new series of the ‘I’m a Mac’ ads targeting Windows 7 too.”
Bradley writes, “Let’s face it, the Windows 7 launch party concept was a complete and utter failure.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It was also completely and utterly predictable. You’d have to be as delusional as Ballmer T. Clown to think such a thing would work.
Who here thinks this was a surprise. Windows people don’t give a sh*t about their OS. Why would they want to get together to talk about it at a party?
Its a tool for them, nothing more.
Anyone who says otherwise is full of crap.
If there had been a ‘party’ within several hundred miles of me, I would have gone just to show my Macbook Pro to the people excited about 7 and watch their jealous reactions.
“You mean… It doesn’t crash every 20 minutes?”
1rst. Nothing to say
My Windows 7 launch party was amazing. I had chex mix lable as bits and chips. Pin the usb on the port. Rectangle cookies in the shape and color of a Zune. I even dressed up as the huge paper clip and my wife for the Bob happy face.
We had a blast … just the two of us. I still don’t get why no one else dropped in.
Ballmer is mired in his own B-ll sh-t. It’s up over his head but he can’t smell the stench because he’s sweating too much. He might try standing on a chair instead of throwing it.
I just watched one of the windows 7 launch party videos where they explained how to burn a CD. It’s freaking hilarious… 11 steps to burn a CD. ELEVEN STEPS.
“”First I just find the genre of burnable things. I click on that. Then, of course, I narrow down the categories of things to burn and click it. Then I find what I want to burn, then I click on it again, and then I tell it I want to burn it. Then I confirm that I want to burn it. Then I pick a name. Click. Click to confirm. Then I select where I want to burn it. I confirm that. Then I choose Audio, of course. Then I confirm burning an Audio CD. Then I confirm the name of what I want to burn. Then I confirm that I’m finished, and then viola! It’s burns the CD. It’s just that easy!”
Please dear God, keep Steve Balmer in charge of MS for as long as he lives… Amen!
We had a Windows 7-11 party.
The Coke was flat, the coffee weak and the popcorn stale,
plus we never knew if there really was a cop behind the the two-way mirror…
I wanted to go to one of these parties. I just couldn’t find any.
I had way more fun attending the party in my pants.
I wanted to go to Zune Tang™’s party, but he obviously forgot to call me. I hear it was a blowout!!!
I “hosted” a party for a free copy of Windows 7. I am certain that the majority of “hosts” did it for the same reasons as me.
(Posted from my MacBook Pro)
I wanted to go to Zune Tang’s party but his address book on his sidekick is gone and he couldn’t call or email or anything….
What does the T stand for in Ballmer T. Clown?
I got an invite to Zune Tang™’s party, but I just stood the f@#$er up.
@ericdano: Very good!
First, nobody calls grandma’s oatmeal cookies failures. Second, grandma almost fell off her chair when I fired up Windows 7 video chat charades with the IT guys who couldn’t make it but were kind enough to play over the internet. She talked about horseless carriages and rotary telephones (whatever those are) and napped for a couple of hours while I downloaded compatible video camera drivers and fine-tuned the IRQs in the BIOS with help from the fine tech support folks at Dell and Logitech. Microsoft has really brought us a long way. Suck it, MAC dorks.
Your potential. Our passion.™
@ Botvinnik
Tiblubberus
well i host one of these parties and Bill Gates came and stripped naked for me i loved every minute
As someone said in the comments section at PC World, I believe the operative term here is “dork.”
@ZT
I was at your party and your Grandma gave me a lapdance. Those oatmeal cookies must have been spiked. I mean after her dentures fell out, I just sat there still smiling… oh my god, the horror!!! These memories must get erased.
I added a pictured from my launch party. Best time of my life.
ZT kills me! And you guys aren’t helping.
This classic How To Host Your Windows 7 Torrenting. http://gizmodo.com/5387674/host-your-own-windows-7-torrenting-party&autoplay=true
Let me put it this way. I would not go or hold a Snow Leopard party. A party is where you get away from your computer to interact with other humans. However thought of this, needs to be fired.
@ ChrissyOne
That’s not it.