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Internal Microsoft Vista Video

9 points by raghus 19y ago

raghus 19y ago
Direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU
mixmax 19y ago
If this had been made by a teenager somewhere and put on youtube as sarcasm it would be funny.
inovica 19y ago
All the shops are shut :( I hope the "BUY VISTA" feeling I have right now holds until the morning!!
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pmorici 19y ago
Ugh, Is this some lame attempt at a viral marketing campaign? They just need to stop trying, even their cool products come across as lame because of their marketing department. (Note: When I say "cool" the only thing that comes to mind is that photo stiching software presented at the TED talk a couple weeks back which I immediately thought less of when I went to the website to downloaded and was accosted by the MS marking machine.)
randomhack 19y ago
Directed, no doubt, by Steve Ballmer.
gscott 19y ago
'Sudden increase in MS Vista salesperson suicide rate' Story at 11.
ks 19y ago
"See what's on employees' laptops" It is the first time that I have seen invasion of privacy as a feature ;-)
daniel-cussen 19y ago
Let me get this straight: Microsoft ran this as a commercial? It's a joke, right?
- SwellJoe 19y ago
  No, Microsoft did not run this as a commercial. Yes, it is a joke (though a "motivational" joke, which takes the funny right out of it). One might have gleaned that information from, I dunno, reading the article.
thorax 19y ago
Corporations do lots of random things to motivate their sales guys. Lots of weird things, lots of cheesy things. This is surely just a silly, known-to-be-ridiculous video they put together as one of their sillier/lighter things for sales training, or a sales conference keynote. How about some of you guys share some of your insight on how you plan to (or do) motivate your sales and marketing guys? Or are salespeople a thing your companies will never have? I personally haven't given it much thought, but seeing some of the 'net reaction' to this video, I see a number of people misunderstanding this. Perhaps because they've never worked in management at a large corp (and maybe never want to)? When I see this, it just reminds me of the sorts of problems corporations have when they get larger. It's not a minor problem when you consider the idea of having thousands of software salespeople who don't necessarily have the tech knowledge (or time) to study up on new features/tricks to get their clients to upgrade/buy. Tricks like this at least force them to take a deep breath and think about how they might position things better when new offerings are available. There's almost no doubt that a clever entrepreneur could make a lucrative business if they're able to improve upon the existing sales training/motivation models. There's a lot of money on the line in these corporations to improve these things (as one would expect).
- angstrom 19y ago
  Way too much thought. Here's my idea of a sales training video: 5 second fade-in of thier commision percentage. 5 seconds of just the percentage sitting on the screen. Then one of those damn screaming ghoulish pop up pictures to get them off their ass and selling so the next batch of sales people can come in and watch the training video.
henning 19y ago
I watched two girls one cup without flinching, but I couldn't stand to watch 10 seconds of this.
raghus 19y ago
Hmmm - just saw this on top of techmeme: http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9920713-60.html http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9920713-60.html
babyshake 19y ago
"Leaked". Right.....those Microsoft people are so authentic. I think this just convinced me to buy Vista.............................................................................................. NOT.

9 points by raghus 19y ago

raghus 19y ago

Direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU

mixmax 19y ago

If this had been made by a teenager somewhere and put on youtube as sarcasm it would be funny.

inovica 19y ago

All the shops are shut :( I hope the "BUY VISTA" feeling I have right now holds until the morning!!

deleted 19y ago

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pmorici 19y ago

Ugh, Is this some lame attempt at a viral marketing campaign? They just need to stop trying, even their cool products come across as lame because of their marketing department. (Note: When I say "cool" the only thing that comes to mind is that photo stiching software presented at the TED talk a couple weeks back which I immediately thought less of when I went to the website to downloaded and was accosted by the MS marking machine.)

randomhack 19y ago

Directed, no doubt, by Steve Ballmer.

gscott 19y ago

'Sudden increase in MS Vista salesperson suicide rate' Story at 11.

ks 19y ago

"See what's on employees' laptops" It is the first time that I have seen invasion of privacy as a feature ;-)

daniel-cussen 19y ago

Let me get this straight: Microsoft ran this as a commercial? It's a joke, right?

SwellJoe 19y ago
No, Microsoft did not run this as a commercial. Yes, it is a joke (though a "motivational" joke, which takes the funny right out of it). One might have gleaned that information from, I dunno, reading the article.

thorax 19y ago

Corporations do lots of random things to motivate their sales guys. Lots of weird things, lots of cheesy things. This is surely just a silly, known-to-be-ridiculous video they put together as one of their sillier/lighter things for sales training, or a sales conference keynote. How about some of you guys share some of your insight on how you plan to (or do) motivate your sales and marketing guys? Or are salespeople a thing your companies will never have? I personally haven't given it much thought, but seeing some of the 'net reaction' to this video, I see a number of people misunderstanding this. Perhaps because they've never worked in management at a large corp (and maybe never want to)? When I see this, it just reminds me of the sorts of problems corporations have when they get larger. It's not a minor problem when you consider the idea of having thousands of software salespeople who don't necessarily have the tech knowledge (or time) to study up on new features/tricks to get their clients to upgrade/buy. Tricks like this at least force them to take a deep breath and think about how they might position things better when new offerings are available. There's almost no doubt that a clever entrepreneur could make a lucrative business if they're able to improve upon the existing sales training/motivation models. There's a lot of money on the line in these corporations to improve these things (as one would expect).

angstrom 19y ago
Way too much thought. Here's my idea of a sales training video: 5 second fade-in of thier commision percentage. 5 seconds of just the percentage sitting on the screen. Then one of those damn screaming ghoulish pop up pictures to get them off their ass and selling so the next batch of sales people can come in and watch the training video.

henning 19y ago

I watched two girls one cup without flinching, but I couldn't stand to watch 10 seconds of this.

raghus 19y ago

Hmmm - just saw this on top of techmeme: http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9920713-60.html http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9920713-60.html

babyshake 19y ago

"Leaked". Right.....those Microsoft people are so authentic. I think this just convinced me to buy Vista.............................................................................................. NOT.