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Ballmer sells Windows 1.0
- itblarg 16y agoHilarious. Is this real?
- jared314 16y agoIt looks like it. Some other windows commercials: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/the-good-the-bad-and-the-awful-a-history-of-windows-ads-642996 http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/the...
- rpeden 16y agoI can't find a source at the moment, but I remember reading more about this a few years back. IIRC it was made as a joke for an internal company conference, or something along those lines.
- jared314 16y agoReminds me of the old SNL Bassomatic skit.
- jimminy 16y ago"Except in Nebraska!" Does anyone have a reason why Nebraska would be singled out?
- beej71 16y agohttp://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OfferVoidInNebraska http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OfferVoidInNebras...
- danilocampos 16y agoGood old Microsoft — selling features instead of benefits. Some things never change. It's a shock that the same company who brought us Windows could also make the Xbox. Without J. Allard, I worry about its future.
- antipaganda 16y agowait... I had that clock on my Amiga 500! And Reversi! And notepad! ...or something like it. So what gives?
- chamakits 16y agoIt makes me sad that those features seemed advanced, when something as complex as the Sketchpad had been created a good amount of time before. (more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad) (Note: Its not completely related, but its just that the Sketchpad seemed to me much more advanced than what had Stevy here so excited)
- jonhendry 16y agoHell, NeXT was founded 25 years ago.