Off-topic Video: Rare Windows XP Commercial (Updated)

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2007-12-30 16:51:16 UTC
Modified: 2007-12-31 04:19:34 UTC

The "developers!" video and "monkey dance" have probably been swatched by... well, pretty much everyone in the IT industry, but this one is even less known than Steve Ballmer's Windows 1.0 ad, which was authentic (no parody intended).

That second guy is Brian Valentine, who left Microsoft after the Trouble better known as "Vista".

Update: An Ogg version of the video is now available [OGM, 3.3 MB].

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Tracy Reed

2007-12-30 21:46:29

Here's a review of Windows XP in case you want to upgrade from Vista:

http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/2007/12/14/review-windows-xp.aspx

I think it goes well with the above TV commercial as part of a Vista upgrade marketing campaign.

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Off-topic Video: Rare Windows XP Commercial (Updated)

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