62 Comments

WTF
Jerry
2009-09-23 17:01:14

My God, but it's painful.

They've disabled comments and ratings for the video. That seems to be the smartest decision here.
Alan
2009-09-23 17:01:38

@Alan
I noticed this comment on the House Party site earlier:
DarylG said...

"It will be cool to show how Windows 7 works within an everyday situation. I hope I don't sound anything like the hosts in the host video parties."

Quite.
 Mark Sinclair
2009-09-23 17:07:06

How generic American suburbia can you get? Slightly geeky white guy LOVES uploading photos! I wish I was "in" on that joke.

There's got to be something more to this, is it April 1st already?
David Bushell
2009-09-23 17:11:47

Speechless....
Nick
2009-09-23 17:12:47

Why? God why?
Christine
2009-09-23 17:13:34

It's a joke.... isn't it? Surely??
Loz
2009-09-23 17:21:58

It's like a particularly bad porn film - minus the porn
 Gavin Lucas
2009-09-23 17:30:35

It doesn't just crush your soul; it zaps your will to live.
Reality Check
2009-09-23 17:38:15

You're kidding me, right?
John
2009-09-23 17:49:10

Wow, they've even managed to fit every marketable demographic in one awkward shove.

Except a 4 year old child, but she's been used in other Microsoft stuff.
John
2009-09-23 17:51:45

4:00 in the afternoon is when all the good parties happen.
Philip
2009-09-23 19:12:48

Also, you should really hide the clock so the edits aren't so painfully obvious. "We shot this scene two hours before the one you just watched (nervous laughter)!"

Also, that camera work is making a little nauseated.
Philip
2009-09-23 19:16:10

Amazing! some great comments on the 'House Party' site

SanguS said...

I'm all about the Windows 7 napkins!!!

John Instruct says... I'm all about using them to wipe the tears from my eyes as your laptop freezes

Fail.
John Instruct
2009-09-23 20:11:07

At least they let the black guy stay at the party...

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/08/microsoft-poland-at-least-they-left.html
Chris
2009-09-23 21:12:44

oh my....

...because i really needed my grandma to tell me how to throw a party!

Kinda shows whos winning the apple/windows battle.
thomas
2009-09-23 23:39:55

After watching that, will anyone be willing to admit being related to someone working for Microsoft? Or just feel sorry for them?
Ahava
2009-09-23 23:43:09

I got to 29 seconds. I can take no more.
Ben
2009-09-23 23:49:15

wow! I have learnt nothing about Windows 7 at the end of the clip (which I actually managed to finished watching)
lynn
2009-09-24 02:09:56

Wow. Maybe this is a form of reverse psychology - you know, you forward the link on (or post it!) because it's so... odd. The everyone watches it and has a laugh. But they're still watching it... mostly.
Lauren
2009-09-24 02:51:04

4:44-5:10 THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID
Keaton
2009-09-24 03:56:27

i recommend microsoft five grams of mdma and shut the fuck up activity
bill
2009-09-24 04:45:34

I hope they didn't pay for this...
Kay
2009-09-24 08:49:41

1:22 black guy holding lemon, cut, 1:24 strawberry. And watch the white guys drink nearly empty at 3:21 and magically refill by 4:04.

Don't know why I watched it in excruciating detail.
David Bushell
2009-09-24 09:30:16

Gavin, your wish is YouTube's command:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyas7BrbUFY
 Mark Sinclair
2009-09-24 09:57:36

On the basis of this video, Windows 7 = pyramid scheme.
Ed
2009-09-24 09:59:29

Oh no, this made me want to convert to windows and throw a party with my grandma, 2 things that are stuck in the past
Marc Bubb
2009-09-24 10:08:10

Every bit as bad - and more - than I knew it would be. After all - it's a PC.
Neil
2009-09-24 14:01:23

oh dear, i bet apple are kicking themselves that they didn't launch snow leopard with such panache! surely this is just everything that is wrong with windows in one ad?
wheres the bowl for the car keys?!
Alexa
2009-09-24 14:05:27

Surely this is Microsoft showing they have the sense of humour to take the piss out of themselves?

Looks to me like a QVC / extreme marketing parody – I mean come on, they KNOW no-one would ever throw a party to celebrate the launch of a Windows update.

I think Microsoft want to say, "Look we can do humour too." I guess its not obvious enough though. I suppose they need to fight past the fact us Brits have such a low opinion of American marketing, that we automatically assume they're dumb enough to make a campaign like this seriously.

It seems unlikely to me that they would make such an ultra-stereotyped campaign without intending it as a piss-take, especially after they (in my opinion) made Apple's campaign look like childish mud-slinging with their 'I'm a PC' campaign.

So, are Microsoft cleverly subverting dumbed-down marketing and mocking themselves? Or are they simply naive? I hope for their sake its not the latter!
James Nelson
2009-09-24 14:39:29

Every bit as bad - and more - than I knew it would be. After all - it's a PC.
Neil
2009-09-24 14:39:39

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Rob
2009-09-24 15:28:00

I think that Asian guy is missing :)
indisign
2009-09-24 15:28:29

Rob - you've broken the CR blog!!

Was this thing developed using Windows 7?
Ian
2009-09-24 15:40:11

@Ian/Rob

Ha. Sorry Rob, we didn't know you could do that, I've had to split your laughter up.
 Mark Sinclair
2009-09-24 16:02:56

"If you can get through this" ...no! :O
Ben Lavender
2009-09-24 16:46:50

Where's the beer?
Martin
2009-09-24 18:01:05

I think I'm going to have to retract my comment.

I just went on their website and it really is for real. I can't believe it. People have actually signed up to have parties about an operating system. My faith in the dark side was misplaced.
James Nelson
2009-09-24 18:46:24

I'm a PC...with a rum and coke! I Looooove THIS Cooompaaany!
Alex Peterson
2009-09-25 08:21:13

The old woman's glad they had 'their' party 'a little ahead of schedule', because she'll be dead by the time she gets the new OS working properly.
The Bunk
2009-09-25 12:00:22

The old woman's glad they had 'their' party 'a little ahead of schedule', because she'll be dead by the time she gets the new OS working properly.
The Bunk
2009-09-25 12:17:58

Is Mark Wnek writing ads again?
Jason
2009-09-25 13:09:56

Maybe its pitched perfectly in the middle? Some people will choose to throw a party and spread the word, the rest of us will take the piss and spread the word? Its a stroke of genius :S
Benjy
2009-09-25 13:12:32

Can't wait to see the Apple response.

I'm a PC family vs I'm an Apple family. Could get messy.
Elvin
2009-09-25 13:38:38

Oh right.

I was just watching and waiting and thinking, surely there's a gag coming?! Is that innuendo?

Anyway, maybe it's supposed to have global appeal? That's not an explanation I know.
Jonathan Gould
2009-09-25 13:45:45

Grandma at 3:59: "Jesus this is terrible, how long will this last? How many takes of this train wreck do we have to do??"
Heather R.
2009-09-25 13:48:29

Surely Apple made this?
Tom Maurice
2009-09-25 14:05:20

I thought it was an Apple ad, but I'm maybe missing the point?
Joe windsor-williams
2009-09-25 14:09:13

Is this real? It makes me feel sick. I couldn't even watch it all.
n
2009-09-25 14:23:20

is tthis for real ? i was out in like 15 seconds...
ziemowit
2009-09-25 15:53:18

Stepford Wives of the 21st century UNITE!!!!
zoe
2009-09-25 16:22:51

Ugh...
small...
bit...
of..
vomit...
in...
mouth...
Chris
2009-09-25 17:22:29

Wow... truly, deeply, nauseatingly disturbing. This piece of viral marketing whether intended as a mock-fomercial or not is about as bad as it gets. How could anyone have thought this was a good idea?It reinforces everything those in the anti-PC camp have always felt about PC world. And if, for a moment you can put aside how appallingly bad this whole thing was, the actual scenario of hosting a party and telling people how to get involved was just so mind numbingly confusing it summed up all that is evil and wrong and frustrating about running Windows. I want the two minutes I wasted watching this back.
Alex
2009-09-25 22:01:25

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT... starve it of advertising oxygen, don't look at it. don't blog about it, then it will just go away.
David Schofield
2009-09-26 10:25:35

It's a brilliant idea, small scale promotion on a large scale.
Lisa
2009-09-28 10:14:32

speechless
Tariq Duff
2009-09-28 10:47:54

YEAHH WOOP WOOOOOOP, I wanna be at that party.

I have used an Apple Mac my whole career but I am now seriously considering switching to a PC, if this is the kind of ground breaking experiences I am gonna get with Microsft then sign me up!

Hillarious.
Charlie
2009-09-28 11:01:52

The ending's a classic!

It's got to be a hoax?!
Glenn
2009-09-29 10:18:42

Oh, nasty, nasty, nasty-make-it-go-away !!! Disturbing, kitch and MINDLESS ! Perhaps this makes it good ?!
Fionajane
2009-09-29 11:58:13

Over complicated, this make me realise what's bad about wasting your time on computers all the time it makes me want to smash mine up (and its a Mac) and go back to how life was before computers and more importantly what the word Party meant!

PS I think this is Microsofts way of being subversive and the anti cool of Mac!
Framedink
2009-09-30 17:39:51

What a "random" selection of friends. This is BRILLIANT, it just proves how sh!t Microsoft are.
Stu
2009-10-01 12:07:43

I feel sick...
Liam
2009-10-05 14:49:25

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