Video: Steve Ballmer sells Windows 1.0

I came across a nice video this morning: 1985, Steve Ballmer sells Windows 1.0.

Un-be-lievable! It comes with Write and Reversi and runns bla-zing-ly fast on a 286! And all that for only 99 Dollars! :)

(via Google Blogoscoped)



October 23rd, 2006

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11 Responses to “Video: Steve Ballmer sells Windows 1.0”

  1. This explains a LOT !

    1 Markus on October 23rd, 2006 at 4:14 pm

  2. This guy is just sick. I guess programs like “paint” didn’t change since this amazing release.
    Thanks for this link anyway.

    2 Martin Röhricht on October 24th, 2006 at 9:50 am

  3. Yeah, and the Clock is another diamond of the software world almost unchanged ever since ;)

    3 Fred on October 24th, 2006 at 10:17 am

  4. Oh god $99!!

    4 Bastos on October 24th, 2006 at 4:20 pm

  5. That is not an actual advert.
    Its a joke video by Ballmer for Microsoft employees.

    Microsoft is known to create such funny videos featuring Microsoft execs for distribution to its employees.
    Its usually played in big company events.

    5 forsynth on October 24th, 2006 at 5:40 pm

  6. Comercial de Windows 1.0…

    …

    6 Electrogadgets on October 25th, 2006 at 6:34 am

  7. Holy cow, (Forsynth) you mean this thing is real? I figured it was some sort of joke with a look-alike. Wow, I can actually feel the amount of hate for them diminishing a tad. (Not much, but comparatively speaking, I have a lot of reserve hate for them…the fact that it moved at all is impressive.)
    -D

    7 David Bare on October 26th, 2006 at 11:23 am

  8. What a hunky nerd

    8 Bubba on January 8th, 2007 at 7:43 pm

  9. Putain, l’angoisse !
    Qu est-ce qu’il prenait à l’époque Steve pour être aussi dingue ? Les même trucs que dans Miami Vice ? En tout cas, aujourd’hui, s’il le refaisait, que dirait-il de plus ?

    Bises de France

    9 Corre Erwan on March 31st, 2008 at 4:41 am

  10. Monkey Boy rev. 0

    10 Doug Glass on August 1st, 2008 at 6:05 am

  11. Great video! It’s like the old “Nobody Beats the Wiz” commercials! Ha ha ha!!! Good Lord – how embarrassing for Balmer this video it! But some things never change… with the way Windows is today most of the time, Windows itself should be pretty embarrassing for Ballmer and Gates and all the rest of the MSer!

    11 Dave Rauch on October 18th, 2008 at 7:26 pm