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YouTube Find: Microsoft's 6 minute guide to hosting a Windows 7 Launch Party
by Nik Fletcher Sep 26th 2009 at 12:00PM
We know you're all itching to Videos like this, however, are prime for remixes and Panic Software's Cabel Sasser has put together an utterly hilarious, shortened and not-entirely-safe-for-children version of the video that still has some of us here at Download Squad in fits of laughter. If you sit though the Microsoft video (I've made it no further than 3 minutes in), you'll need this hilarious relief....
Videos, along with our very own party game to help improve your own Windows 7 party, after the break!
The Windows 7 Party Buzzword Drinking Game [to be played responsibly, of course]
Microsoft's Original Video:
Cabel Sasser's Remix:
- Mentioning 'jumplists' - Take a drink
- 'Better than Vista' - Everyone takes a drink
- Mentioning any product whose name contains the word 'Live': Everyone takes a drink.
- Mentioning any product name containing more than 2 words: finish your drink.
- Mentioning any product name containing more than 4 words: finish your drink, and neck another.
- 'My Mac does that already' - Everyone finishes their drink, and you neck another.
- Windows crashes: the party's over. But if there's any surplus alcohol left, we'd hate to see it go to waste....
Microsoft's Original Video:
Cabel Sasser's Remix:
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
revolution said 1:55PM on 9-26-2009
How original.
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Chris said 2:09PM on 9-26-2009
If apple did this, which it wouldn't, but if it did, the video would be 1 minute long. "install snow leopard, wait an hour, have some chips, and you're up and running!"
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PS_4 said 1:15AM on 9-27-2009
0:51. That's how far I got into the video before I couldn't take its lameness any longer. Phail with a capital P.
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Brian said 10:56AM on 9-27-2009
Microsoft's ad is really weak but the remix was even weaker...
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jayanta barat said 4:34AM on 10-02-2009
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jayanta barat said 4:44AM on 10-02-2009
when come to marketxpphone
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