Microsoft Windows Commercial... For Windows 386!
Worst. Commercial. Ever.
Thursday, February 8, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Ok, so most of us remember the smiling flying people in the commercials for Windows XP, and now we're dealing with the annoying "WOW!" people in the Vista commercials, and we're more or less entertained by Apple's Mac vs PC ad campaign. Ad campaigns for operating systems are pretty hit or miss, and in the case of Microsoft, typically miss. So it's no surprise that one of their first, a commercial for Windows 386 is incredibly bad.
Don't believe me? Well, Gizmodo dug up an old commercial for Windows 386 that's really not much of a commercial since it's 5min in length. It's got everything you could want from the early 90s... big hair, bad clothes, and painfully bad rap.
Check out the video for a good laugh.
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ToeJo
Reply #2 Thursday, February 8, 2007 5:12 PM
Reply #2 Thursday, February 8, 2007 5:12 PM
What is so disturbing is the "Mission Impossible" theme music, Hitchcockesque shadows and cheesy 80's rap music. What an amazing combinations on video productions mishmash.
Asect
Reply #3 Thursday, February 8, 2007 5:15 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, February 8, 2007 5:15 PM
Great Laugh Zoomba! 
I especially like the mission impossible music running in the background before the rapping. Was that playing to illustrate the impossible tasks the young lady was going to perform with the 386, or how impossible it was going to be for that loser to get a date with her!!!!!!!! Absolutely astounding.
I especially like the mission impossible music running in the background before the rapping. Was that playing to illustrate the impossible tasks the young lady was going to perform with the 386, or how impossible it was going to be for that loser to get a date with her!!!!!!!! Absolutely astounding.
Ambiguous9ine
Reply #4 Thursday, February 8, 2007 6:06 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, February 8, 2007 6:06 PM
That was terrible! 
And I like the Apple ads.
And I like the Apple ads.
PurrBall
Reply #5 Thursday, February 8, 2007 6:36 PM That was great!
I don't think it was a commercial though. The whole thing is 12 minutes long. It just looks like a promo video.
Reply #5 Thursday, February 8, 2007 6:36 PM
That was great!I don't think it was a commercial though. The whole thing is 12 minutes long. It just looks like a promo video.
Jafo
Reply #7 Thursday, February 8, 2007 6:49 PM
Reply #7 Thursday, February 8, 2007 6:49 PM
having some advertising training in my background, what really stands out is that commercials like these are written to the level of the anticipated consumer base they are trying to get to use their products. In other words it's a reflection of what big business thinks of us, the consumer.
So Apple thinks their user-base are smarmy, precocious supercillious brats that need a kick up their collective arse for being so smug?
Good one, Jobs....
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #8 Thursday, February 8, 2007 8:01 PM
Reply #8 Thursday, February 8, 2007 8:01 PM
Yeah,I find the Apple ads insulting...they dont really say anything about Apple...just put down anyone who uses Windows(most of US) 
I couldnt watch the whole thing...are all you tube videos that poor quality?I've yet to see one that was worth watching.
I thought video compression tech was getting better.
I couldnt watch the whole thing...are all you tube videos that poor quality?I've yet to see one that was worth watching.
I thought video compression tech was getting better.
canmandeco
Reply #9 Thursday, February 8, 2007 8:02 PM
Reply #9 Thursday, February 8, 2007 8:02 PM
ben38
Reply #11 Thursday, February 8, 2007 10:55 PM
Reply #11 Thursday, February 8, 2007 10:55 PM
What's really sad to me is, I remember using windows 123 and 386. Man how things and times have change.
whiterabbit007
Reply #12 Thursday, February 8, 2007 11:04 PM
Reply #12 Thursday, February 8, 2007 11:04 PM
God that was just terrible, but it was also one of those "it's so bad you gotta watch it" things. 
So who exactly was it suppose to be aimed at - rapping executives??
As for the apple ads, while I do find them funny, it is interesting how the big evil corporation that is Microsoft doesn't advertise its products by directly degrading or insulting the competition, while "everyone's favorite underdog" that is Apple is doing exactly that. Just some food for thought...
So who exactly was it suppose to be aimed at - rapping executives??As for the apple ads, while I do find them funny, it is interesting how the big evil corporation that is Microsoft doesn't advertise its products by directly degrading or insulting the competition, while "everyone's favorite underdog" that is Apple is doing exactly that. Just some food for thought...
Bebi Bulma
Reply #13 Friday, February 9, 2007 12:17 AM
Amen! That's why I hate the ads sooo much. It's like the only way they can try to get people to switch to their "own a Mac and you'll instantly be cool" product is by trashing the competition....who happens to have so much of the market it should hardly be called competition to begin with.
Reply #13 Friday, February 9, 2007 12:17 AM
As for the apple ads, while I do find them funny, it is interesting how the big evil corporation that is Microsoft doesn't advertise its products by directly degrading or insulting the competition, while "everyone's favorite underdog" that is Apple is doing exactly that. Just some food for thought...
Amen! That's why I hate the ads sooo much. It's like the only way they can try to get people to switch to their "own a Mac and you'll instantly be cool" product is by trashing the competition....who happens to have so much of the market it should hardly be called competition to begin with.
cavalierex
Reply #14 Friday, February 9, 2007 1:01 AM
Reply #14 Friday, February 9, 2007 1:01 AM
Is this for real?
How could they ever have thought this was a good idea??
How could they ever have thought this was a good idea??
Erk.
Reply #15 Friday, February 9, 2007 1:12 AM
Reply #15 Friday, February 9, 2007 1:12 AM
Stopped it at about the half way point ...my eyes & ears were bleeding.
Any longer and I would have bled out...
Any longer and I would have bled out...
WebGizmos
Reply #16 Friday, February 9, 2007 4:02 AM
Reply #16 Friday, February 9, 2007 4:02 AM
I could hear fingernails being scraped over a chalkboard. This was a joke...right? I mean...they really didn't put that out there as a real commercial...did they?
SKoriginals
Reply #17 Friday, February 9, 2007 9:54 AM
Reply #17 Friday, February 9, 2007 9:54 AM
"The Most Ridiculous Windows Video Ever" <--- best explination ugh... I would think a company with as much money as Microsoft would have cutting edge right on target ads (even back then). But your right, historically MS hasn't had any 'stand out' campain ads.
Dr W - Fences Support
Reply #19 Friday, February 9, 2007 11:20 AM
Reply #19 Friday, February 9, 2007 11:20 AM
OH GOD...I WAS ONLY HALF WAY THROUGH THE VIDEO...IT GETS WORSE...OH GOD...HOW COULD THIS EVER HAPPEN???
Which leads me to my next point kids......Don't do drugs.
Which leads me to my next point kids......Don't do drugs.
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Reply #1 Thursday, February 8, 2007 4:00 PM