Also good: Bush Pilot 

posted by mrflip at 11:35AM CST on January 18

Wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-windoze three ayteee six.

The fine people that helped produce the Windows 386 spot later went to work with Perry Logan on his political commentary show, "Wingers".

posted by javelina at 12:25PM CST on January 18

My god, javelina. You didn't watch that entire 30 min. episode of "Wingers", did you? I could only get up to about two minutes 30 seconds before it had to be stopped. 

posted by NanoCindy at 12:48PM CST on January 18

I made it through the first 5 minutes or so. Actually, I found it much more enjoyable than the Windows 386 promo, and that was 12 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

No, it's not OS/2, you hooplehead!

I forgot to note Perry Logan's Fine Website. There are many more videos there! 

posted by javelina at 02:01PM CST on January 18

Okay T-Bone. Time for some crunching.

I'm enjoying the thought that since Ballmer and Gates were still so involved with the day-to-day business at this point that they wrote the content. 

posted by natedogg at 04:13PM CST on January 18

If you look close between 9:13 and 9:14 you can see Powerpoint being invented. 

posted by natedogg at 04:16PM CST on January 18

Sooo... does anyone understand why space shuttle line art was included in the final 'document'? 

posted by javelina at 04:55PM CST on January 18

A lot of you have probably seen this before, but here's Ballmer selling Windows 1.0

This is a spoof that MS made for a conference, but still... jeez.  

posted by habcous at 06:16PM CST on January 18

Did the beginning of her song part remind anyone of Blondie's "Rapture"? 

posted by habcous at 06:22PM CST on January 18

javelina: Because sales are BLASTING OFF TO THE STRATOSPHERE! 

posted by natedogg at 11:07PM CST on January 18

The whole time I watched that, I just kept on thinking--this is the insanity that we were subjected to every second of every day in the late eighties. If it were 1990, and I saw that, I probably wouldn't bat an eyelash. I would probably just have sat through it and hoped that this thursday's episode of Cheers kept Kirstie Alley's whining to a minimum. It's only through a modern lens that the eye-gouging insanity of that spot.

And eat it huskers. T-bone is totally going to take you out, and Omaha with you. 

posted by Valatan at 01:00AM CST on January 19

I don't think of the eighties as insanity. I think the fact that this woman started stripping and then "rapping" half way through the video was insane. I didn't do either of those things in the eighties, so I don't think that you can just blame the decade. Cheese can happen at any time. 

posted by NanoCindy at 11:18AM CST on January 19

PRINTING!
PRINTING! 

posted by shi at 11:31AM CST on January 19