Ballmer barks in early Windows ad...

Jonny Evans

May 28, 2008

Industry Intel

Another in our series of re-runs, in homage to Ballmer’s appearance at the D: All Things Digital event last night - here’s an old commercial for Windows. Enjoy...(Thanks to '9 to 5 Newb' for the link).

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Comments (16)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 7:13am

Did that guy ever have hair?

BacMook (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 7:40am

Did Microsoft ever understand concept of Humour?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 7:44am

At least he's consistent...

Ashoka8350 (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 8:19am

An idiot yesterday is still an idiot today and will be an idiot tomorrow.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 8:57am

I hear that Ballmer was born bald

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 9:24am

what a plonker!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 9:43am

Gives hope to used car salesmen everywhere...

Karl (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 9:48am

Is this a fabricated joke for some event? Did this ad ever really run?? I'm speechless. In any case, how can any serious "tech" company let this one go...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 10:23am

Not a joke. It's legit.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 10:08am

Sweetness is personified in this video. Awesome.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 10:11am

This is quite old... Gotta love the "REVERSI!! It's got REVERSI!!" bit.

IIRC it was for Windows 2.

Try this older one.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuiwrbavRgc

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 12:26pm

I'm basically speechless following the song from Part 2 of that. Wow.

Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 8:58pm

Does having REVERSI make it the Ultimate edition?