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Tags for this video have been changed from 'windows, tv, ad, hysterical, 80s' to 'microsoft, windows 1, steve ballmer' - edited by Stingray

>> ^qualm:

It's the Steve Ballmer gene.


DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!
DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!
DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!
I LOVE THIS COUNTY!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's the Steve Ballmer gene.

developers developers developers!
developers developers developers!
developers developers developers!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

oh wait, that wasn't Steve Ballmer.

>> ^kymbos:
This is completely untrue and is a total fabrication. Full disclosure: I am Steve Ballmer.


I generally thought that DARK LORDS had a little more respect.

This is completely untrue and is a total fabrication. Full disclosure: I am Steve Ballmer.

>> ^shuac:
>> ^jdbates:
I hate microsoft because of snake oil salesmen like him, They are the roman empire of the business world, the romans didnt innovate, they incorporated other culures ideas. For him to dis the iphone like that shows his lack of vision, which I feel accurately represents their company.

Agreed. Let's go down the list.

Apple's GUI (courtesy of Xerox) and OS/2 begat Windows

Playstation begat X-Box

Wordstar/Word Perfect begat Word

Lotus 1-2-3 begat Excel

iPod begat Zune

Google search begat Live Search and now Bing

Mac OSX begat Vista

Sun Javascript begat MS Javashit

Netscape Navigator begat Internet Explorer

Prodigy and AOL begat MSN

iTunes begat MSN Music

Apple Stores begat Microsoft Stores

Now, I'm not going to try to claim that no other company has derivative products in their lineup because that would be silly. After all, Apple didn't invent the mp3 player, that would be Diamond Multimedia. However, what I will say is that Microsoft has a vast preponderance of derivative products.
What did Microsoft ever actually innovate? Clippy, Microsoft Bob, and that fuckin' Search Assistant Dog.

How dare you use factual data to try and make Microsoft look like a bunch of thieves. You're not giving them the credit they deserve! They took each and every one of those product you listed, and made it worst. Now that's f*cking difficult.

>> ^jdbates:
I hate microsoft because of snake oil salesmen like him, They are the roman empire of the business world, the romans didnt innovate, they incorporated other culures ideas. For him to dis the iphone like that shows his lack of vision, which I feel accurately represents their company.

His only mistake was that he had too high of an expectation for people. He thought that they'd want useful hardware that can be a functional tool. He didn't know that there would be so many plebeian sheep that would buy into the bullshit apple was selling for $500. You should be apologizing we let him down.

>> ^jdbates:
I hate microsoft because of snake oil salesmen like him, They are the roman empire of the business world, the romans didnt innovate, they incorporated other culures ideas. For him to dis the iphone like that shows his lack of vision, which I feel accurately represents their company.


Agreed. Let's go down the list.

Apple's GUI (courtesy of Xerox) and OS/2 begat Windows

Playstation begat X-Box

Wordstar/Word Perfect begat Word

Lotus 1-2-3 begat Excel

iPod begat Zune

Google search begat Live Search and now Bing

Mac OSX begat Vista

Sun Javascript begat MS Javashit

Netscape Navigator begat Internet Explorer

Prodigy and AOL begat MSN

iTunes begat MSN Music

Apple Stores begat Microsoft Stores

Now, I'm not going to try to claim that no other company has derivative products in their lineup because that would be silly. After all, Apple didn't invent the mp3 player, that would be Diamond Multimedia. However, what I will say is that Microsoft has a vast preponderance of derivative products.

What did Microsoft ever actually innovate? Clippy, Microsoft Bob, and that fuckin' Search Assistant Dog.

Imagine if it was Steve Ballmer. Chairs!!

Forwarded to Steve Ballmer. If only we could harness the resulting thermal energy.

Yeah it does. Like it's been copied from Beta to VHS to toilet paper to ass to youtube. But all the other examples I've found are the same video, only scaled down a bit.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Cute. Is there a better copy of this out there? This looks like ass (not of the badonkadonk variety).

Was Steve Ballmer there?

So... Where does the "Steve Ballmer selling Windows 1" rank, then?