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Video: Steve Ballmer pitches Windows 1.0

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How into the wayback machine and check out Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s Vintage 60-second pitch for Windows 1.0, complete with “hip” and “fresh” references to such timeless memes as Ferraris and Miami Vice. You know, between this and the MS-DOS 5.0 rap video, I’m beginning to give credence to those “Bill Gates sold his sold to Chthulu” explanations for Microsoft’s stranglehold on the PC market.

Hat tip to my buddy Lizard for this…(ahem)…find.

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I have a copy of Windows 1.0 fred.stemp@... | 11/14/07
Me too . . . Sudsy100 | 11/16/07
Me Too 2 tvanalst@... | 11/18/07
I have the box and manuals for 1.03b... Too_Busy_To_Be_Here | 11/16/07
New! From Ronco... seanferd | 11/17/07
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have found... radicalspud | 11/19/07
I left my copy Nicholas.Newman@... | 11/26/07
RE: Video: Steve Ballmer pitches Windows 1.0 Neil Higgins | 11/14/07
I hate Steve Ballmer, but that was weird. kitico@... | 11/16/07
Great Ballmer look-a-like itmanager@... | 11/16/07
Nope! That IS the real Steve Ballmer TechExec2 | 11/16/07
Other famous Steve Ballmer videos TechExec2 | 11/16/07
I'm shocked that he didn't start prancing around and screaming like an ape Big Ole Jack | 11/16/07
Someone please call wild animal control...he needs to be tranquilized Big Ole Jack | 11/16/07
...and now we know david.salisbury99@... | 11/20/07
RE: Video: Steve Ballmer pitches Windows 1.0 arvliet@... | 11/16/07
I can picture him in in a leisure suit dressed up as Leisure Suit Larry Big Ole Jack | 11/16/07
RE: Video: Steve Ballmer pitches Windows 1.0 tonyfriendly@... | 11/16/07
RE: Video: Steve Ballmer pitches Windows 1.0 pmbrent@... | 11/16/07
For those who want a copy of Windows 1.0 ... charincol | 11/16/07
You must be new to this site because we don't condone piracy Big Ole Jack | 11/16/07
Not always piracy crookesf@... | 11/22/07
RE: Video: Steve Ballmer pitches Windows 1.0 russte@... | 11/18/07
typos and bad grammer marquis | 11/25/07
RE: Video: Steve Ballmer pitches Windows 1.0 tvanalst@... | 11/18/07
RE: Video: Steve Ballmer pitches Windows 1.0 jms@... | 12/02/07

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