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Thursday 17 April 2008, 11:22 AM
Vista gets the rock'n'roll treatment
My erstwhile colleage IT Anthems would love this one. Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band is a genuine spoof from Microsoft. Also, it's actually funny enough to fool the gadget-freaks at Gizmodo who updated their horrified posting to say "The video is an internal spoof, an insider confirms". Well duh.
Enjoy the in-jokes in this one, like the CEO on the sax (Philppe Kahn anyone?), and tell me - are any of these people real MS sales staff with actual names?
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I don't care if it's a spoof. It's horrible and it hurt my eyes and ears. And the singer sounds more like Elvis Costello than Springsteen, too. Actually, that makes me wonder if a version of Oliver's Army might've worked better....
Service Pack 1 is here today
But Vista's weight is here to stay
And I would rather use anything else
On my P-C (pron. "pay-say" - work with me here, folks)
How about Careless Whisper? Or rather, Careless Vista...
Time can never mend the careless Vista of a software giant
To the PC and notebook, XP is kind
There's no comfort in SP1
Pain is all you'll find
Should've known better
I can see SP1
The pain has gone
All of my old problems have disappeared
Oh no they haven't, my mistake I fear
It's gonna be a long, long wait for SP2
How about Vista is Doing it For No One sung to the tune of Sisters Are Doing it For Themselves by the Eurythmics.
We say, Vista is doing it for no one,
Stomping on our OS dreams
And crippling our clock speeds
etc.
Vista postman, look and see
If there's an upgrade in your bag for me
I been waiting such a long time
Since I heard from that OS of mine
(I'll stop soon, promise)
To the tune of Mystery, by Toyah Willcox
"It's a Vista-ry, oh it's a vista-ry.
A shot in the dark
A big question mark"
"Poison Aero" by ABC
"I Get Around (Thirty Minutes Of Battery Life)" - The Beach Boys
"Being For The Benefit Of Mr Gates"
Queens Of The Stone Age's Little Sister:
Hey Vista, why you all alone
No business givin' you a home
Hey Vista why you so half-baked now, baby
Hey Vista you weren't made for me
Certainly not UMPC
Hey Vista when is your successor due now…
Little Vista, can't you find another way?
No more UAC and useless eye candy
Little Vista, can't you run on my machine?
Why they stuck you on the Shiiiiift - is a mystery
Just one more then, and it's back to The Boss for...
In the day we sweat it out in the cubicles of a runaway software house
At night we surf through the web of glory with suicide machines
Sprung from Faraday cages on the super-highway,
Overclocked, RAM-injected and steppin' out over the line
Baby this Vista rips the servers from your rack
It's a money trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out before the OS is hung
`cause geeks like us, baby we were born to run
Great guys - can we book a studio to make this tribute album?
In the meantime, I know you all want a compilation of Microsoft's best promotional videos - including an early look at Mr Ballmer.
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9920796-1.html?part=rss
Vista Blue Screen from the ELO - sing it with a soupcon of irony...
Vista blue screen where have you been
Your loading up takes so long
Where did we go wrong?
Hey you with the pretty face
Welcome to the human race
Acceleration, Vista blue screen’s up there waitin'
And today is the day we've waited for
Hey there Vista blue
We're so pleased to play with you
Look around see what you do
Ev'rybody smiles at you
The Little Stevie ripoff "actor" is the host on the XP Embedded Standard CTP webcast (I think), another piece of crap.
Actually I found the YouTube bit revealing especially when combined with a few of the really awful MS "webinars" I've tried my best to avoid.
The marketing staff is trying anything to get people to get enthused about Vista. They are so desperate that they are willing to trade (or perhaps tread!) on the style and appeal of artists whose work is not derivative, but truly unique in expression and execution. In many ways Vista is hardly more than a copy of something "stolen" from a Palo Alto lab and released as Windows 3.1. Its unfortunate that the marketing department seems destined to be as exploitive of the artistic world as Microsoft has been of the intellectual, engineering and programming world community.
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