Microsoft are definitely dead to me.

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So to all of us born in late 70ties and early 80ties, this commercial obviously does strike a chord:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkM6RJf15cg]Child of the 90s | Internet Explorer - YouTube[/ame]

Most of us probably had their 1st PC experience on Windows, and their 1st internet experience with Internet Explorer.

Key phrases from the new commercial:

"You grew up, so did we."

"Reconnect with the new Internet Explorer"

Now, because I'm a nostalgic guy and I don't forget old friends, I did give this new IE a chance (with high skepticism) to see if they really changed.

Result = fucking waste of time. That shit is slow as shit, and crashed on me after opening 5 tabs. (Note that I have 27 tabs open right now on Chrome and it runs like a breeze)

Why is it that companies like Microsoft and Yahoo, who clearly were at the top of their game at one point, clearly can't see what they're doing wrong?

Definition of Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein
 


Steve Ballmer. lol.

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Great advert in fairness.

The question "Why big companies fail to innovate" is one you can investigate if you really want an answer, although if it was that easy to pinpoint the point of failure, no big company would ever lose "it."
 
First computing experience PCDOS.
First browser (forget the name) was on System V Unix via a dialup slip connection in the early 90s.
First browser graphical browser NCSA Mosaic.
I was born in 82.
Suck it microsoft.
 
That modem made me smile.

Fucking pogs. I still have a collection of hockey ones. I had some serious slammers. I remember they eventually banned that shit in school :(
 
m0rtal said:
Fucking pogs. I still have a collection of hockey ones. I had some serious slammers. I remember they eventually banned that shit in school :(
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I had flash backs of loosing all my pogs because of this video.

Thanks Microsoft.

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Man, that is some grade A nostalgia. I remember all of those. Still not going to use internet explorer and I do believe there was a browser called Netscape before Microsoft.
 
pretty awesome commercial. Born in the late 80's, I remember all that. I was the kid with the bowl cut back then haha
 
I love Microsoft. Getting the surface pro soon. Its basically a powerful tablet/ultrabook with high PPI.

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conjamuk said:
I love Microsoft. Getting the surface pro soon. Its basically a powerful tablet/ultrabook with high PPI.

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have you seen:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMUQM2RTj4w]Microsoft Surface Pro review - YouTube[/ame]
 
Love how classically shitty and vague this commercial is about what's being sold, really reflects the brand's image. MS is dead. Grew up on them and switched to 100% Apple products a few years ago, quality of life literally quadrupled.

Haven't had to waste time/energy fixing a computer in ages and I was literally troubleshooting blue screens since I was about 8 or 9 years old, no joke. Switching from MS to Apple is like switching from SEO to PPC. Feels so good.
 
avatar33 said:
Why is it that companies like Microsoft and Yahoo, who clearly were at the top of their game at one point, clearly can't see what they're doing wrong?
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Probably because they got lucky to begin with and were in the right place at the right time - which is something you can't duplicate.

If you created success on your own you can do it again and again, much like a kid who sets up a lucky profitable campaign on his first go then goes broke and can't figure out how to do it again.
 
first browser = lynx running on redhat 2.0 - born in 79

I have never used IE as a primary browser in my life, and have been using Windows products since Windows 95
 
Compuserve, Netscape Navigator.... ahh the memories.

Having to wait 5 mins for a picture to load on a 56k modem, i dont miss the slow speeds but there was something cool about hearing the dial-up modem connecting.
 
Microsoft would have been bigger, but they kinda got neutered in the 90's with the anti-trust lawsuits.

My first computer:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kT207Jmhq4"]TRS-80 Commercial - YouTube[/ame]

5.25" floppy drives cost almost as much as the system itself, so we peasants saved all our datas to:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITfKILfsItA"]Computer tape played through audio recorder! - YouTube[/ame]
 
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