Rick Schummer wrote:
But where's the accountability? John Dough over in dept authorized
us to spend $75,000 on this video. ??
Funny punster (Dough instead of Doe), Mike.
You caught that, I see! g
snipped We can also look at the upside. *If* Microsoft did
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Ed Leafe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Kenneth Kixmoeller wrote:
Hm... If true, how is it that they can spend money this way? Not
sure I believe it.
If they had a history of creating high-quality videos, I *might*
I am inclined to believe it is a film to get the troops fired up. I
used to work for General Electric in the appliance division. They had a
sales video made by the Muppets. They showed it at the end of product
training classes and it definitely produced the desired results. It was
funny,
Kenneth Kixmoeller wrote:
If you believe it:
http://tinyurl.com/6krlyl
and
http://tinyurl.com/6qdffl
Hm... If true, how is it that they can spend money this way? Not
sure I believe it.
Exactlyyou'd think the stockholders would have a legitimate gripe.
They'd say that
Rick Schummer wrote:
I am not saying this was an intended spoof or not, but I can say I
have seen Microsoft spend money
to create videos that were more costly than 50K just in the time Bill Gates
was on screen (not
including all the outtakes). They do like to do these types of things and
But where's the accountability? John Dough over in dept authorized
us to spend $75,000 on this video. ??
Funny punster (Dough instead of Doe), Mike.
Accountability to who?
First of all, you need to work in a large company to understand accountability
such as this. Each
If you believe it:
http://tinyurl.com/6krlyl
and
http://tinyurl.com/6qdffl
Hm... If true, how is it that they can spend money this way? Not
sure I believe it.
Ken
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On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Kenneth Kixmoeller wrote:
Hm... If true, how is it that they can spend money this way? Not
sure I believe it.
If they had a history of creating high-quality videos, I *might*
believe that this was a spoof. But really: is it so different than
their
On Apr 19, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Ed Leafe wrote:
I'm more inclined to believe that
this admission is an effort to save face.
Yeah --- no matter how big a company you are -- I've yet to meet a
corporate manager who would spend -- what do you think this thing
cost? -- minimally $50,000?
Yeah --- no matter how big a company you are -- I've yet to meet a
corporate manager who would spend -- what do you think this thing
cost? -- minimally $50,000? -- just to make a spoof?
I am not saying this was an intended spoof or not, but I can say I have seen
Microsoft spend money
to
On Apr 19, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
Have you seen the video on Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft?
How about the video on We Share Your Pain video?
Money is not a restriction.
Yes, I've seen them and I was thinking about those when I replied. (I
offered to my customers that
That was an SNL spoof or something wasn't it? Wasn't it? Please say yes.
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On Apr 17, 2008, at 3:02 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
That was an SNL spoof or something wasn't it? Wasn't it? Please say
yes.
I wish I could.
-- Ed Leafe
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It's not a spoof... It WAS made by MS...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/vista_video_mocks_bruce/
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On Apr 17, 2008, at 3:02 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
That was an SNL spoof or something wasn't it? Wasn't it? Please say
yes.
I wish I could.
-- Ed Leafe
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Adam Buckland wrote:
It's not a spoof... It WAS made by MS...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/vista_video_mocks_bruce/
The stockholders should demand that they cease with this kind of waste
of money.
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On Apr 17, 2008, at 9:23 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account
wrote:
It's not a spoof... It WAS made by MS...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/vista_video_mocks_bruce/
The stockholders should demand that they cease with this kind of waste
of money.
On what? The
! Either one!
Gil
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On Apr 17, 2008, at 9:23 AM, MB Software Solutions General
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU
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You know, in the same way the tShirted lady looked up to the lead singer and
was brought up and accepted on stage, I too will look up to Microsoft --
accepted, dancing, looking down on the rest of the minions, happy with Vista
and SP1.
In reality, that was the longest three minutes of my life...
Ed Leafe wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU
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Wow...how much money did they blow on that? Probably more than they
spent on VFP marketing!LOL
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On Apr 16, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:
In reality, that was the longest three minutes of my life...
Like the line from Billy Madison (which coincidentally applies to
that whole movie), we are all dumber for having viewed that.
-- Ed Leafe
Is that for real? A friend of mine and I did some audio tapes over the
last 15 years and have them on cassettes. We wanted to put them on CD
so I bought a soundblaster that Works with Vista. I have an Ubuntu /
Vista dual boot for that kind of stuff. After I don't know how many
installs of
It should come with a laugh track.
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After I don't know how many
installs of software and reboots, I fired up an application to record
the cassettes and Could not detect your hardware device.
Bad Vista! Bad! Bad!
http://badvista.fsf.org/
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Ted Roche
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