“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.
Anus == Zune
“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.”
Obviously the writer has never visited the University of Chicago.
I just popped in to read the news, as I’m getting ready to DM a Dungeons and Dragons game. Does that mean I need to get rid of my Mac and host a Windows 7 party =)
@ currentinterest
…or a Wizards of the Coast company holiday party. Those can get chaotic evil.
Funny thing yesterday while I was walking down Kearny St., San Francisco, to work. There was a worker taking the Windows 7 advertising down already. I noticed all the ads elsewhere were gone too. How odd for a launch day.
Cheers!
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To quote NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me:
“Clippy must DIE!”
“Oh, I see you’re digging a grave. Is this a personal grave or a business grave?”
ZuneTang: Best take you’ve had in a while – grandma’s cookies sealed it for me, lol
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The best thing to come out of it was that unintentionally hilarious “How to throw a Windows 7 launch party” video. It was almost as funny (in a lame way) as the earlier “Microsmith Songsmith” video, which looks like it was produced by the same people.
Microsoft has the worst marketing people…
Sir Gill Bates thinks that ZT is a real Apple troll, m$ fanboi
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The way I see it, a Windows launch party could actually work if the guests were invited to bring home-made catapults. Points could be awarded for some combination of distance, accuracy, and blood alcohol levels.
“What does the T stand for in Ballmer T. Clown?”
How about ‘Total’?
tried to buy the recently announced new imac at my locale apple store 10\23\09 no shipments received call us back later. holy vapourware party.
at least I could buy win 7 if I wanted too.
welcom back chrissy one how are you and where have u been
u have been missed
as for 7 ..consider wmp 11 its a complete joke its so complicated to find and navigats to a song or just see the songs as in itunes u could format the hard drive just to go back to xp and winamp or better get a mac
@IPhoner
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Sorry mate. I watched about ten seconds of that and started to feel queasy. A deeply disturbing experience.
RL, thanks for my LOL tonight, whe stuck at work. Both “pin the USB on the port” and the picture had me laughing.
Certainly someone knows somebody who went to a party.
I have checked the parties in my area. Nobody I know. Thank goodness. http://houseparty.com/windows7
I am wondering just how real these pictures are.
“The Bow Wow starts now!”
to call Windows 7 a complete and utter failure.
give it a week at least. to be fair.
(oh wait that said Windows 7 parties. my bad)
I just read this quote in a Businessweek article about Microsoft doing so well because they lost less than anaylsts thought they would: “An investor who bought Microsoft shares in late October 2000 and held them would have realized a net gain of about 1%.”
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2009/tc20091023_131328.htm
Apple bottomed near $7 in 2000.
Ooh, Ooh. Can I also be a Windows 7 dork?
Bradley writes, “…I don’t agree with the premise of many of the Apple ‘I’m a Mac’ ads,…
I’m curious as to which “‘I’m a Mac’ ads” he disagrees with, and why.
Bradley doesn’t agree that Windows computers are virus-ridden?
He doesn’t agree that the “cancel or allow” prompt is a pain in the behind?
Which ones, exactly, Bradley, and why?
“What does the T stand for in Ballmer T. Clown?”
The.
all in all Microsoft’s and PC’s annus horribilis.