Windows 386 Promo Video (last half)
(Or why Microsoft will always play second fiddle to Apple in the “cool” department, explained in 6:41).
(Curse you Bitsmack for playing this on your podcast, and for getting me to think about it again even after I swore never to think about it again).
Oh, the pain . . . the pain.
You know that bizarre feeling of embarassment you have when you watch another person making a fool of themselves? Even a person you don’t like? You have to really go quite some distance out on the old bizarro limb to generate that kind of response, but this video did it. I kept pausing it, turning away, then, like a rubbernecker at a multi-vehicle pile-up, I would let it resume. Eventually, I watched the whole thing.
Now I feel dirty. Sullied, even.
*shudder*