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Marketing Genius
This is perhaps the oddest promo video I have ever seen. It’s worth every minute, despite being from the evil empire themselves down at Microsoft.
And it is really worth sticking with it until 7 minutes in. At that point it gets even weirder.
With all the production values of a porn film, the standing ovation at the end for a bit of copy’n’paste plagiarism and the closing shot suggesting Microsoft sales guys sleep with their clients, it’s one to file in the “how not to sell your product” category.
Either that, or the shots of 5.25” disks, audio cassettes and the “when we get OS/2, I’ll be ahead of the learning curve” references have just made me feel a bit ill.
