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Microsoft’s Cheesy Internal Vista Video

And to think that it’s Apple that gets associated with the term “Reality Distortion Field”: here’s an internal Microsoft video featuring a faux Bruce Springsteen band singing about how the Vista sales team “saw lots of sales” can expect to see even more now that SP1 is out. I also show some other equally painful Microsoft Windows-related videos.

And to think that it’s Apple that gets associated with the term “Reality Distortion Field”: here’s an internal Microsoft video featuring a faux Bruce Springsteen band singing about how the Vista sales team “saw lots of sales” can expect to see even more now that SP1 is out.

Surprisingly, it’s not the most painful Windows-related musical number in a Microsoft promo video. That honour belongs to “I’m using W-w-windows W-w-windows three-eighty-six” rap in this video (the musical number starts at around 2:19):

While this video wasn’t made by Microsoft and doesn’t have any music, it does feature Windows, cheese and Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston. It’s a Windows 95 Guide and it’s groan-a-riffic (sample dialogue: one of Aniston’s line is “Taskbar? Is that anything like a Snickers bar?”).

Here’s part one:

and here’s part two: