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".
Alyssa Rosenzweig is the graphics witch behind the reverse-engineered drivers for the Apple GPU. She previously led Panfrost, the free drivers for Arm Mali GPUs powering devices like the Pinebook Pro. She graduated in 2023 with a Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto and now writes free software full-time.
Now we have a project started primarily by Red Hat (and managed by Microsoft GitHub, which is proprietary) being managed by Microsoft and primarily serving Microsoft and IBM
Comments
Tracy Reed
2007-12-30 21:46:29
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.