| Sunday, January 14, 2007 |
16:45 - Windows/386 is on the attack!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239&q=windows+386&hl=en
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Microsoft was once a vibrant, hungry start-up company innovating left and right... right? The current Vista-era rot is a recent thing... right?
... Right.
I was told to skip to the 7-minute mark in this promotional video used to sell Windows/386 against OS/2 back in the late 80s. But I watched the whole thing, because I wasn't going to miss a moment of it. This stuff's gold even in the boring segment.
I especially loved the part where the guy asks, "What is that, OS/2? We aren't finished evaluating it yet!" And she replies that no, it's Windows/386, whose chief selling point is that it looks just like OS/2. And apparently it doesn't need to be evaluated too or anything.
What kind of marketing effort must it have been that had to implicitly acknowledge that OS/2 did absolutely everything better than Microsoft's own product did, including run Windows apps?
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Brian Tiemann
