Insane Windows 386 ad!!!

[finferflu]

I'm afriad to watch.

Can someone summarise the ad in 5 words or less?

No, it's a must see, and besides, you have to undergo the same suffering we all have been through!
The effect is hilarious on people

EDIT: It's actually too bad you can't read the Italian comments, they're so funny, even though they're not much different from those here. One of the reasons why I posted this here was because I wanted to crack myself up reading your comments

[stalker145]

Please, take a look at this, and draw your own conclusions, I was so embarrassed I felt like stopping it. After the 7th minute is really really insane.

Sorry if the link it's in Italian, but that's where I found it.

http://pollycoke.wordpress.com/2007/...roppo-tardi-d/

I can't believe things like that actually came into being...

Oh, you heartless, evil individual I must now find an old floppy disk and slash my wrists with it. I simply can not live knowing that I allowed myself to watch such a horrible example of advertising...

[Philk]

Maybe I'm just an old fogey, but the ad did remind me of how much an improvement Windows was over DOS! I was one of those working in an agency that insisted on MS. I had too many different things to do to use DOS. Even at its worst, Windows was at least a chance to have several things "going" at once [well, at least up to be switched between].

I am also one of those who worked from home on many of my things in those days. I remember when a 36kb modem connection seemed real uptown!

I've been using Ubuntu for over a year now, and hardly ever take advantage of the dual boot that I still haven't given up - partially because my wife still uses Windows on her networked machine.

My tolerance level is obviously higher than most of you. I will admit I was doing things on my other computer at the same time, but I did keep one eye (and about 1/20th of my alertness) on the ad. I don't think I ever saw that at the time, but then I don't watch much television and avoided sales pitches like the plague!

[FuturePilot]

oh....god....I really wish I hadn't.....

Haha me too. I want those 10 minuets of my life back!

[Stew2]

Wow! Mission Impossible was obviously very popular when that ad was made. Just loved those "big as your head" glasses that were so popular then... wonder if she had storm windows for those things... get it... "storm windows" yuk yuk! Hard to believe I'm not even drinking... , kind of wish I was now though...

Regards,
Stew2

[TravisNewman]

Finally watched this, and I chose not to read any comments until I did.

First I thought, this is terrible... but then she started rapping, and I swear I think I lost brain cells.

[jariku]

I thought the whole thing was all kinds of awesome, but then again, I have a thing for trash culture.

I loved the floppy disks and the 120 minute cassette and everything that was way high tech! Too bad I never got to use that version of Windows, since my first PC was an IBM PS/1 286 with Windows 3.1.

[use a name]

Eheh...

Anyone want my popcorn?

[3rdalbum]

If it's Windows 386, does that make it better than the Xbox 360?

[FoolsGold]

Who knew you could rap (badly) about Windows?