MS Jingle Bell bus rattles past Reg Towers
Having decided that Family Guy wasn't exactly the right way to punt Windows 7, Microsoft has decided to get down wiv da kidz by sponsoring the The Jingle Bell Ball - a musical extravaganza this weekend featuring luminaries such as Lady Gaga, Janet Jackson, Miley Cyrus and the Backstreet Boys. To prove just how happening and now …
Its just driving round London as a mobile billboard, adding to traffic, adding pollution, using fuel etc?
In other words just a graphical presentation that just detracts frrom the performance of the system?
Now I think of it: how very appropriate!
Much like core components of their OS, it appears that their latest promotional stunt is a good few years behind the curve.
My coat is the one with the Windows 3.11 For Workgroups Users Guide in it.
Steven R
[PS: Yes, I genuinely do have that book - tragic, innit?]
It's got no doors or windows! Are you sure that isn't something off The Prisoner? I'm going to have nightmares about what horrors are perpetrated behind the blank portals of the hell-bus...
The even more scary thing, is that I expect this guy to step out of it at any moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_1QyOQDx6w
Sudden urge to paint a penguin on the side of the buss
I'm assuming that your rocket launcher was malfunctioning at the time? Or are you saving it for the event itself?
OMG, that is just so cool. I want a legitimate copy of Windows™ 7. I want the Genuine Advantage.
I can win an "Intimate Gig" with the Sugababes!!!
http://www.winwithwindows7.com/my_gig.html
Giggedy, Giggedy Goo!
Now where's the cold shower icon?
I'll get me dirty mac.
Janet Jackson !? Very "happening and with it". Or should that be "far out"?
Almost as last century as the vintage Routemaster.
What's that? A concert by Sugababes, Backstreet Boys, Lady Gaga and Janet Jackson, you say? Yeah, I guess I can see what that's got to do with an operating system... well, actually, maybe I can't.
Didn't the Rookies from Redmo.... er, Reading think about their target audience when signing all those cheques? Let's give them a few pointers.....
Crap pop stars' target audience == pre-pubescant girls who live at home with their parents and who spend all their time in their bedroom reading MyFaceSpace blogs about their idols (Sugababes, Backstreet Boys, Lady Gaga and Janet Jackson).
Crap operating system's target audience == fat, balding, middle-aged men who live at home with their parents and who spend all their time in their bedroom reading MyFaceSpace blogs about their idols (Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie).
Maybe they've got more in common with each other than I originally thought.
"Are you very tech savvy - do you use Facebook, Twitter and that?"
Erm, WTF?
... for the pirated version to show up and see what Microsoft will do about it. Since with the Genuine thing you get screwed maximally, I can only wonder what would be depicted on the fake bus. Maybe a 600 pound gorilla with a jar of Vas ..... oh never mind, you get the picture.
Gareth needs to read Popjustice. It is amazing. And not for pre-pubescent girls at all.
I love how real-ale and uppity people get about pop music, though.
I definitely won't have anything to do with a company that does that sort of thing to a wonderful Routemaster.
It's great to hear you're supporting Windows 7, but can you tell me...
Why do upgrades from Vista hang at 62%?
Why don't it always recognising DVD drive?
Why does it change custom icons?
I'm in no hurry, take your time...
I had a problem with W7 not recognising my DVD drive and it was down to the GEARS ASPI drivers that were bundled with an itunes installation. Removed this from my system and all was well.
Obviously I have no idea if this applies to your system but if you do have itunes installed try removing the GEARS drivers and see if it helps.
Go here for 'how to' and stuff
http://www.gearsoftware.com/wiki/index.php?title=DRIVERS:_Windows_-_Updating%2C_removing%2C_64_bit_versions%2C_etc#Removing_GEAR_Drivers
Well, at least you've proved you're not a member of the Sugababes, but you might need a new irony detector... ;-)
So all those Windows 7 adverts shown during every new Family Guy episode, featuring the Family Guy characters, are all in my imagination?
..obscured by an ugly old bus. Can we see a picture of that instead?
I'll be in London from the 30th. It'll be gone by then. Right?
Right?
Then again I saw one of those 'Back The Bid' trains (on Reading station) a year after the bid had been pocketed.
...Else that would have been a clapped out old volkswagon camper, driven by a bunch of aging hippies and green smoke wafting out of every leaking window and panel. And, true to life, none of the passengers could agree on where exactly they should be going, or even how to get there.
At least the buggers are trying, which is all I'm going to say. They've got a product to sell, and they're giving it a go. When I see an Apple Smartcar or the Linux Camper, then I might be tempted to grill the occupants about why I should switch, but the chances are, that'll never happen.
Oh, and to LJ Vino... yeah, we had to wait until the new livery was decided by FGW central command until that got replaced. You should know by now, nothing EVER arrives on time on the railways ;O)
and like the Win7 ad campaign, it's several years out of date.
Shoved into an cramped metal box, blindfolded and unable to see where you're going, just having to put complete trust in whoever's driving the bus, let them do whatever they want and pray it won't veer wildly out of control and crash.
How is this not the *perfect* metaphor for the windows o/s user experience?
Actually, that sounds much more like the previous US administration/Current Labour government to me.
I guess the Apple metaphor would be that you get to ride in the back of a very large stretch hummer, but with no control over the destination and only 3 channels on the TV.
We're waiting for the linux one, but that has yet to leave the driveway and get onto the road... ;O)
Sounds like a better metaphor for Apple to me... You can't do what you want - only what people think you should do, you're locked into a nasty white box, and you look like a complete git while doing it.
Couldn't that have got any good bands?
Meh those aren't the sugababes. Not the ORIGINAL ones. Everyone has their own Doctor Who, this is no different. Now if they brought the original ones back to demonstrate backwards compatibility I might be tempted.
Or maybe Paris could join the Sugababes, that would also be acceptable.
