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Worst. Commercial. Ever.
Published on February 8, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Ok, so most of us remember the smiling flying people in the commercials for Windows XP, and now we're dealing with the annoying "WOW!" people in the Vista commercials, and we're more or less entertained by Apple's Mac vs PC ad campaign.  Ad campaigns for operating systems are pretty hit or miss, and in the case of Microsoft, typically miss.  So it's no surprise that one of their first, a commercial for Windows 386 is incredibly bad.

Don't believe me?  Well, Gizmodo dug up an old commercial for Windows 386 that's really not much of a commercial since it's 5min in length.  It's got everything you could want from the early 90s... big hair, bad clothes, and painfully bad rap.

Check out the video for a good laugh.


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on Feb 09, 2007
I could hear fingernails being scraped over a chalkboard. This was a joke...right? I mean...they really didn't put that out there as a real commercial...did they?
on Feb 09, 2007
"The Most Ridiculous Windows Video Ever" <--- best explination ugh... I would think a company with as much money as Microsoft would have cutting edge right on target ads (even back then). But your right, historically MS hasn't had any 'stand out' campain ads.
on Feb 09, 2007
OH...MY....GOD....
on Feb 09, 2007
OH GOD...I WAS ONLY HALF WAY THROUGH THE VIDEO...IT GETS WORSE...OH GOD...HOW COULD THIS EVER HAPPEN???



Which leads me to my next point kids......Don't do drugs.
on Feb 09, 2007
I for one am curiously aroused.

  
on Feb 09, 2007
i dont know about you guys, but in australia we have 2 new adds, the 'wow' one for vista (we all have that i guess) and a new one for mac which i think is stupid, its a guy and a doctor and the guy says he's a mac...9 times out of 10 when i see it, i watch it and after it i say to myself...'i dont get it'......so yeah.....insane and LAME
on Feb 09, 2007
What's really funny is I still have the original installation disks for Windows 386...LOL
on Feb 11, 2007
Which leads me to my next point kids......Don't do drugs.


How can anyone watch that without drugs? WOW! That was soooo bad.
on Feb 15, 2007
I am glad I don't remember that commerical (if you want to call it that) at all!
That was such a cheesy, lame commerical for Windows/386! Even the theme to mission impossible was totally lame and the rap that woman did, eek!
I never ever seen such a lame commerical then that and it wasn't even pleasent to watch.

So what was Microsoft thinking back then when they made that commerical? Was Bill Gates wondering why it turned out the way it did? Compared to The Apple vs the Mac commerical I reather watch that then that 386 one!
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