Microsoft Windows 7 Party? Are you kidding me?
So I have seen lots of buzz this morning about the Windows 7 Party video and couldn’t help but chime in. Watching this video is worse than watching an infomercial at 3AM, when all you want to do is check out some Brady Bunch reruns but instead are forced to sit through some BS presentation about a ladder than can folder up into a coin purse or a knife that can cut through cement and still be sharp enough to amputate an arm. I honestly think the only way you could sell a Windows 7 party is if Billy Mays rose from the dead and brought Jesus with him, although, I am sure that Jesus uses a Macbook Pro.
Please watch the video:
I kind of hope this is some sort of clever scam and not a real Microsoft endorsed video, Unfortunately, some credible news sources are reporting it is indeed legit. Microsoft has had some awful beer thirty advertising ideas in the past but this one may take the cake.
Ever since I struggled through this video, I have been trying to picture what a Windows 7 party might look like. A Windows 7 party is probably a great way to lose friends, although, someone throwing one is very unlikely to have any friends to start with. I would imagine most Windows 7 parties will take place in a dark basement, with a lonely 37 year old guy swearing into the darkness because his World of Warcraft just crashed due to a bug in the new Windows 7 OS.
How many parties do you think will actually occur? Of those what percentage do you think will be interrupted by a frozen Windows 7 machine? Does anyone, anywhere think this is a good idea? This cannot be good for the Windows brand that is already struggling with the young tech savvy crowd. Microsoft continues to fail miserably in its advertising efforts. To answer a question from the token black guy in the video, “Can you believe Microsoft put the launch of Windows 7 in our hands?” NO! I hope Bill Gates personally fires his entire advertising department for further destroying the Windows brand.
I have tested Windows 7 and it was a decent OS. It is what Windows Vista should have been. My question is, why ruin it with such a have baked advertising campaign? This idea is so awful I am now embarrassed to use Windows. I think I will switch my Windows 7 testing machine to Linux this weekend.
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Hmm, well, I’m about to give a Win7 party (but I’ve not seen the vid due to your warning :-O)
I will setup a Vitual Machine containing a x64 bootimage for booting over network (PXE), where multiple Win7 64Bit versions (home, pro) will be available for installation plus a I’ll create a big USB penstick w/ all win7 drivers and software needed.
So I’ll invite all my geeks for the weekend to install/setup Win7 together and we’ll have some games in our LAN.
So… This has many advantages as we install all the same time, when problems occour, someone is around to solve them , all drivers and software just needs to be downnloaded once, and so on.
Greetz,
GHad
I like how they were all wearing the Windows colours… except the woman in purple, but there were lemons for the yellow…
I have honestly never seen this ad.. I almost fell out of my seat when I saw this blog post because I was recently invited to a windows 7 party. ROFL!!
I made it about as far as the really bad edit to “call customer service if you have any questions”. Maybe MS sloppy edit will inspire others to mash this thing up and make it a bit less insipid and a bit more inspiring (not necessarily inspiring one to install MS7, though).
Well, the video was meant for hosts that were accepted by Houseparty.com, not for the “public” as it has been shown to everyone the last few days. Microsoft seems to be taking a different approach to their advertising schemes, unlike Vista, when nobody even knew it was released. The host that were chosen were not filtered out by any technical means so they used this video to show that “anyone” can host a party. I see they got that point across.
As for a boring party, I think it’s a little challenging to try and have a party around a piece of software. I am a chosen host but luckily, I have clients that are all interested in throwing their Vista out the window. Word of mouth got my small business in some great places so who knows what this will turn out like for Microsoft.
This really happened. Look at the hilarious user submitted pics here: http://houseparty.com/windows7ca
I can see the Windows 7 Party being tied in to the HouseParty.com website which is all about having a party highlighting a ‘leading brand’. This is in stark contrast to real life house parties which highlight MULTIPLE brands such as Budweiser, Smirnoff & Red Bull, Tums, Trojan & Viagra, Smith & Wesson etc.
Why do these people hate Windows so much? So many people have this prefabricated idea how Windows crashes so much, when really, if you have decent free space and hardware (as on Macs) then you should be fine. The thing about Apple is that nearly all their machines have great hardware, and with Windows, not as much. But come on. Macs cost like $1200, okay? You can get a decent Windows machine for oh, $500 maybe? And you can get a very nice Windows machine (that crashes the same or less than Mac) for about $1000. Macs are just glassy, pretty, smooth, and beautiful. Not great functionality. That’s why like, no businesses use Mac. The average user looks and says: “Oh hey! That’s pretty! I want that one!” when truly, on a side by side comparison of features and functionality, Windows wins. Always. Stop hatin’ on good ol’ Win, darnit! Oh, and as a side note, we do use Macs at school, so this isn’t onesided. And I own an iPod touch, which is essentially a Mac with app limitations. And its calculator has been wrong three times. There you go. A nice job, Jobs.
This commercial is one of the lamest things I have ever seen.