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Microsoft Windows 1.0 with Steve Ballmer (1986)
- paganel 2y agoFrom the video's comments: Comment from 9 years ago: "This man is worth 22.7 billion dollars" Comment from 1 year ago: "112 billion now" It's financial turtles all the way down, until it isn't.
- netsharc 2y agoI didn't know he's also profitted handsomely from MS, it's Bill Gates who's famously in the "list of richest people". According to this list, Ballmer currently has more money than Gates: https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/ https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/
- AshamedCaptain 2y agoI am quite sure this was shown in one of the MS PDCs ? I am quite sure I saw it there -- I couldn't put my finger on which year. Doubt it ever was a real ad, but one of these parodies they used to do.
- ndiddy 2y agoIt's from the Windows 95 launch video. https://youtu.be/_JzfROUDsK0?t=263 https://youtu.be/_JzfROUDsK0?t=263
- 1oooqooq 2y agoof course this was an internal company joke. Microsoft don't have ads. it doesn't sell to consumers. all windows sales in history were by strong arming OEM to preload it and pass the cost.
- dylan604 2y agoThen what exactly do they sell in those Microsoft stores?
- jerrysievert 2y agoI was curious, because I had thought that all Microsoft stores had closed. it appears that there is still at least one Microsoft store (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/locations https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/locations) in the United States, but I think that might be it. I guess the non-satirical answer would be "experiences"
- hulitu 2y ago> Then what exactly do they sell in those Microsoft stores? Vacuum cleaners that doesn't suck. /s
- arp242 2y agoEspecially in the 80s and 90s Microsoft sold tons to consumers, and advertised to them too. The OEM model didn't come later. And even then, it wasn't quite as black/white and still sold (and advertised) to consumers. "All windows sales in history were by strong arming OEM" is just making stuff up.
- WeylandYutani 2y agoIt is difficult to imagine in this day and age when nobody gives a shit about computers or what they run on but people really did stand in line to buy windows 95 and 98.
- AshamedCaptain 2y ago
- skered 2y agoWhat's special about Nebraska?
- colejohnson66 2y agoIt’s a joke about an old Bell rule: https://www.networkworld.com/article/945570/replaying-ballmer-s-whacky-windows-1-0-ad-and-explaining-except-in-nebraska.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/945570/replaying-ballme...
- mistrial9 2y agoit took them nine more years to ship Chicago aka Windows 95
- karmakaze 2y agoOr rather just under 2 years since Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
- vardump 2y agoWhich was Windows 94 at some point, until it wasn't. At least one official alpha build had that name.
- accrual 2y agoOne could also try out the new shell, literally codenamed "NewShell" 2 months ahead of Chicago/95's release in July 1995 with an update to NT 3.51. I've been meaning to try it out on my 486 rig. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.51#NewShell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.51#NewShell
- 486sx33 2y agoNo one has or had energy in software like ballmer!
- jimt1234 2y agoCongrats to Microsoft for Windows 1. But I still think Amiga/AmigaOS was superior. However, when Microsoft released Windows 3, you could start to see where the puck was going. So I skated toward the puck, like everyone else. Sorry Commodore. :(
- dansalvato 2y agoLet's be real, Commodore has no one to blame but themselves for squandering their 5-year lead in hardware and OS. They were carried hard by the passion of their engineers, but irredeemably greedy and soulless at the top. At Microsoft and Apple, engineers were the lifeblood from the very beginning. At Commodore, they were a spreadsheet column.
- skeeter2020 2y agoIt's all relative; Commodore sounds like it was nirvana compared to Atari!
- accrual 2y agoKind of wild to imagine an alternate universe where Commodore and Atari were still big names in computing. Would have loved to see the Amiga continue to grow, it seemed so ahead of its time.
- chuckadams 2y agoCommodore probably got more pleasant after Jack Tramiel left to go run Atari. Unfortunately it got left in the hands of Irving Gould, who treated the company as his personal piggy bank and looted it til there was nothing left.
- panick21_ 2y agoImagine if Commodore had built ARM, or something like it it. A 16 register RISC in the 80s was basically an instant win. They would have been in the CPU lead for a couple of years. And they had the resources. I mean hell, Acron was a tiny company and they pulled of building an absolutely incredibly machine in the Archimedes. Its just what you dare to do. If they were as bold as the original Amiga team, with VSLI Technology 2nm CMOS in the late 80s they could have built an incredible machine. I think they held on to long trying to do their own semiconductors. Acron didn't have the bandwidth to really innovate on the graphics side of things, and because of their problems with OS, they never managed to get enough software on the platform. And they just didn't have the market either. Commodore on the other hand, actually had a pretty high quality OS with lots of software and users already.
- jdsully 2y agoIn the BillG era it was pretty common to produce these funny videos for internal events. In case anyone is wondering about the origin of this.
- LeoPanthera 2y agoThere aren't many pixels in that video. Here's a high resolution version: https://youtu.be/DgJS2tQPGKQ https://youtu.be/DgJS2tQPGKQ
- grg0 2y agoBallmer was clearly up to speed.
- chuckadams 2y agoIt was the 80's, so my educated guess is more likely coke.
- dehrmann 2y agoPO Box 286-DOS. Wonder if Microsoft still has that.
- accrual 2y agoI thought it was funny he spelled it out, D-O-S. Wasn't it more common to say "DOS" back then too? Maybe it was because it was an address.
- golergka 2y agoJust in case anyone missed it, this is an internal parody: > This is the famous Windows 1.0 parody "advertisement" shown internally at Microsoft, now in glorious 60FPS and high-quality audio! Surreal to think this was only previously available in a highly compressed form for over a decade.
- tregoning 2y agoI have a brand new still shrink-wrapped box of Windows 1.0.0 My local museum (https://computerhistory.org https://computerhistory.org) has one on loan, this remind me to go there and offer them mine
- jmward01 2y agoThat made my day.
- wvbdmp 2y agoUSD 99 in 1986 would be $288 today. Indeed, if adjusted by the price of Coca Cola, it would be $590, according to this weird site https://moneynotmoney.com/historical-price-of-coca-cola-in-united-states/ https://moneynotmoney.com/historical-price-of-coca-cola-in-u...