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11/30/2006

Microsoft Releases First "Vista" Commercial

Microsoft has just released the first "Windows Vista" commercial -- they really want users to "see the difference". What are your thoughts? Video after the jump.

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Posted at 11/30/2006 04:42am by J3
i like the mexican music and the weird chick spinning in the chair at the begining. oh yeah.... buy a mac.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 04:54am by Jonathan Hamlin
Wow, that is a promotional commercial for vista? That didn't show me ANYTHING that would make me want to buy vista. Get to work Microsoft marketing.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 04:57am by Mobilesuitmart
LoL! J3, That was what I was thinking during that video!
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Posted at 11/30/2006 05:14am by Rik
Well, at least it's not far worse than Steve Ballmer screaming at us to buy Windows 1.0, LOL
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Posted at 11/30/2006 06:25am by chris
It doesn't actually show vista, nothing running it, no one using it. I could mistake the ad was meant for a bank. They are really pushing the business thing, companies want long lasting rep of stability like win2k not another attempt at XP.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 07:30am by Jaded
Fluff (less than eye candy)
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Posted at 11/30/2006 08:10am by Primo
Microsoft did a great job for the Gears of War commercials, they need to hire that company to do its Vista commercials
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Posted at 11/30/2006 08:10am by Carter
ok, so is there a commercial for VISTA in this. I just see some people dancing around to some crapy music and some words that I don't care to read thrown up on the screen........ did I miss the commercial :) The commercial was probably edited on a VISTA computer, so since it's already 10-12% slower with desktop graphics, maybe it couldn't handle editing real video footage. Pretty poor commercial I'd say..... but just my $0.02
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Posted at 11/30/2006 08:25am by luna
Well the most important message i get from the ad is that the "new business opportunities" and "new solutions". Does that mean the business man is going to earn more from us? Come on, I don't see any new solutions for us end users.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 08:25am by luna
I see new problems
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Posted at 11/30/2006 09:06am by Zenith Mist
the box art is more impressive
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Posted at 11/30/2006 09:21am by Macaca
Well, at least its just as stupid as Apple's commercials -> it's just a load of marketing bullcrap to nudge n00bs into buying their product without actually knowing what they buy! People just buy into pretty pictures and think thats cool. I get very aggrevated by modern marketing, and most of all that it actually works.. is anybody actually thinking? Is humanity doomed by mass-insanity? Does anybody actually want dancing people and mexican music on their PC? Its pretentios nonsense! They should make a commercial that simply says: It's does the same as before, but now it's more stable and prettier to look at, plus it has a few new features. But you still need to spend $$$ on software to actually make it do something usefull.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 09:40am by Johnnyg0
It said commercial, not TV spot. That looks more like a promotionnal video for enterprises. We get them all them time where I work. Any one as seen the Dell/Oracle promo vid they did? (its on youtube) It was really funny, this is just corporate boredom.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 10:25am by Jordan
THAT SUCKED REALLY REALLY BAD HORRIBLE MUSIC DIDN'T SHOW ANYTHING looked like a bad copy of an apple ipod comercial... nahh
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Posted at 11/30/2006 10:26am by Greg
You'd think that after 20 years, Microsoft would learn not to skimp on the marketing department. That's the kind of commercial you get when you assign art majors to try and design for technical folk: visually appealing without any substance.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 11:05am by therapix
what's that? 30 lines of text in the whole ad? I hate ads in which you have to read a lot. Apple ads are awesome, like the iPod one. The only thing they wrote was "iPod+Something" at the total end. Worst ad ever, the packaging is good though.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 11:28am by ivo
What a stupid commercial.... really really stupid.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 11:40am by Josh
What does a 360 controller have anything to do with vista?
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Posted at 11/30/2006 11:47am by Mr.Wednesday
Why is a guy using a xbox360 controller in the end of the video? Are we going to be able to use the controller with Vista? Or will Vista be able to play Xbox360 games? Now Im curious why they show that controller there...
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Posted at 11/30/2006 11:49am by Ush
Horrible, horrible ad. Tell someone that its a spoof of the REAL vista ad, and they would probably think its hilarious.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 12:32pm by Alex
i can REALLY SEE NO DIFFERENCE...because they havent even previewed the damn look of the operating system itself. anyone could have made this commercial. man...i was seriously considering BUYING vista, but with lack of information available to users of XP, etc. i dont think i will...at least not when its first released. bummer windows...bummer.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 12:58pm by Fjolvar
Wow that just made me want to go out and get Linux I think the best windows OS was 3.1 :P If they really want people to take them seriously then they should atleast show the actual OS....oh wait thats right it's still crashing they cant as soon as they get the dang thing going it goes *Blue screen of death*
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Posted at 11/30/2006 2:49pm by ShadowVlican
*agrees with chris*
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Posted at 11/30/2006 6:09pm by John
All you guys and your questions. The controller was there because Vista will have increased functionality with the Xbox 360 over your network and the actual look of Vista is quite nice and you can ge RC2 or release candidate two if you want here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx. Although the customer review program is closed you can still probably get it somewhere and if you need a key I have one contact me at jeff.hodges@hodgesbadge.com , I only have one so don't all be wanting it and you still have to have already gotten the somftware.
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Posted at 11/30/2006 6:15pm by John
Also the main Vist website is accesible here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/ to answer any other question and also for more information go here: http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1874,1786052,00.asp Sorry about the type earlier it was software not somftware.
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