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Also a tangent, but Microsoft was the OG for corporate cringe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ

fzzzy 1y ago
Developers developers developers developers!
- all2 1y ago
  One of the best mashups on youtube came from this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE Enjoy. :)
dreamcompiler 1y ago
Oh my god. How strong does a company's reality distortion field have to be for people to think your friends are going to want to come over to play with a new version of Windows? I mean, why not "Let's all have wine and cheese and do root canals on each other!"?
- Ancapistani 1y ago
  It was a different time. I honestly was excited about Windows 95. Win98 was underwhelming, and WinME was a joke that I never bothered to install on my own machines. Win2K brought back some of the excitement, but not much. Then Vista came out, and it was a total flop at first. Win7 fixed most of those mistakes, but the damage was done. Vista basically killed any chance Microsoft had at building excitement for an OS. FWIW, I think the last macOS version that I was really looking forward to was High Sierra.
  - Anamon 1y ago
    Yeah, younger folks don't remember that new operating systems used to be a thing of excitement -- what cool new features will we get? -- and not, like today, a thing of distress -- what did they break this time, and which new ways have they found to piss me off I remember my dad driving us to the local Windows 95 pre-launch event by Microsoft. I was 10 and had learned the ridiculous and useless skills of DOS memory configuration and bootdisk juggling to get all of the games to run. Win95 was so cool! I remember spending hours on the multimedia catalog and demos on the CD-ROM and marvelling at the possibilities.
monocasa 1y ago
Everyone forgets about this cringe from Microsoft, but it is oddly endearing to me too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zww2ivWdLas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zww2ivWdLas
roryirvine 1y ago
It goes back waaay further than that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLuC4yZk7us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLuC4yZk7us

fzzzy 1y ago

Developers developers developers developers!

all2 1y ago
One of the best mashups on youtube came from this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE Enjoy. :)

dreamcompiler 1y ago

Oh my god. How strong does a company's reality distortion field have to be for people to think your friends are going to want to come over to play with a new version of Windows? I mean, why not "Let's all have wine and cheese and do root canals on each other!"?

Ancapistani 1y ago
It was a different time. I honestly was excited about Windows 95. Win98 was underwhelming, and WinME was a joke that I never bothered to install on my own machines. Win2K brought back some of the excitement, but not much. Then Vista came out, and it was a total flop at first. Win7 fixed most of those mistakes, but the damage was done. Vista basically killed any chance Microsoft had at building excitement for an OS. FWIW, I think the last macOS version that I was really looking forward to was High Sierra.
- Anamon 1y ago
  Yeah, younger folks don't remember that new operating systems used to be a thing of excitement -- what cool new features will we get? -- and not, like today, a thing of distress -- what did they break this time, and which new ways have they found to piss me off I remember my dad driving us to the local Windows 95 pre-launch event by Microsoft. I was 10 and had learned the ridiculous and useless skills of DOS memory configuration and bootdisk juggling to get all of the games to run. Win95 was so cool! I remember spending hours on the multimedia catalog and demos on the CD-ROM and marvelling at the possibilities.

monocasa 1y ago

Everyone forgets about this cringe from Microsoft, but it is oddly endearing to me too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zww2ivWdLas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zww2ivWdLas

roryirvine 1y ago

It goes back waaay further than that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLuC4yZk7us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLuC4yZk7us