Start Me Up

Original Windows 95 Commerical at MSTechToday

Original Windows 95 Commerical at MSTechToday — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:42:22 GMT

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re: That Windows 95 video

Mike Dunn — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:06:17 GMT

I love how the minimize/restore and flying-papers animations were hi-tech enough for the day to make it into the video.

re: That Windows 95 video

stevecla01 — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:03:26 GMT

Hi Mike - yep, what seemed "revolutionary" back then seems a little passe now :) Checked out your site btw - very cool. I've been looking for a Flash grabber for a while!

re: That Windows 95 video

Kevin Allman — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:26:58 GMT

Love how they left off the lyric:

"You make a grown man cry..."

re: That Windows 95 video

Brandon Wood — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:43:43 GMT

It's a nice walk down memory lane. I think that for the times, they did a good job with this commercial. It will be interesting to see what they come up with for Vista...

re: That Windows 95 video

Mintz — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:09:20 GMT

Dude, I want Windows 95 now!

re: That Windows 95 video

PWBDecker — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:17:58 GMT

At first I saw the screen shots and thought, well yeah, that's windows, so what? And then I remembered that that was the first time anyone had seen the trusty Start menu or multi tasking windows, videos embedded in applications distributed on CDROMS, etc, etc. So great, revolutionary for the time. Then I continued to think. This could effectively be an advertisement for Windows XP. Everything they showed, in action, is exactly what using XP is like. So then I realize, dear god, my desktop hasn't changed in 11 years. Imagine the same thing was true between 1985 and 1996, still sitting around using DOS on a 200Mhz Pentium MMX. I'd be pretty pissed off at a lack of progress. Hell, I AM pissed off at a lack of progress.

re: That Windows 95 video

Stephen Rose — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:18:25 GMT

If you pause it on the 82nd frame, you see the blue screen of death! - It wouldn't be Windows 95 with out the Blue Screen of Death.

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Mark — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:38:04 GMT

It's amazing how 1995-era laptops are ridiculously tiny and ridiculously clunky at the same time.

Good commercial, though.

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nigel — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:54:53 GMT

That kid at the very end.....I think we just hired her as a web dev.....

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jimmy bova — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:06:05 GMT

what they failed to include in the commercial was the crashes & the blue screens.

re: That Windows 95 video

Blinded By Soap — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:08:58 GMT

You should have posted the video on Youtube or Google Video. Something other than a limited access video sharing site like MS Soapbox.

Just a thought.....

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Youtuber — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:19:52 GMT

Here's a link to the video on Youtube for those who can not access Soapbox, or just do not want to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUOuTcfGli4

re: That Windows 95 video

Jim Barbera — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:51:47 GMT

They never get to the part of the song where Mick sings "You make a grown man cry."

re: That Windows 95 video

choppy wmv — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:06:14 GMT

even though they didn't include the lyrics:

"you make a grown man cry"

at least they were honest enough to include:

"I've been running hot

You got me ticking gonna blow my top"

re: That Windows 95 video

GadgetsGuy — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:58:41 GMT

<i>even though they didn't include the lyrics:

"you make a grown man cry"

at least they were honest enough to include:

"I've been running hot

You got me ticking gonna blow my top"</i>

Would make a much better DELL battery advert

re: That Windows 95 video

stevecla01 — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:13:57 GMT

wow...I didn't realise this was going to generate quite so much interest and it shows that we need to up the ante for Vista. There are some links to Vista videos on my blog homepage and I hope they include some of the killer apps like the BBC one and one I have seen for North Face.

I love the lyrics - hadn't really thought of it that way but it did make me LOL with the reference to Dell (or was that Sony).

Adding the link to YouTube in the original post now and will try to upload some Vista vids to there too.

re: Start Me Up

ganeshram iyer — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:26:55 GMT

lovely video really. my first real operating system too. i never used 3.1 even tho i had it installed. surprising the look has not changed for sooooo loooooong.

re: Start Me Up

pixel — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:29:54 GMT

when be End of Micro$oft

hope sooon

re: Start Me Up

stevecla01 — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:36:43 GMT

thanks for your valuable input. I suspect the end is not nigh though

re: Start Me Up

Michael — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:10:14 GMT

This video just made me realize how uninventive the start menu really is. "A menu that contains a menu". Wow.

re: Start Me Up

Michael — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:11:19 GMT

Sorry, it's cool to see the video though :P

With Windows Vista Launching Soon...

UtterlyBoring.com — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:25:00 GMT

...I'd like to see their marketing campaign top the commercials they had for Windows 95 (which, back in the day, were pretty darn impressive):...