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Re:Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the a... by trevithick on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:52PM (#45296432)
Also a tangent, but Microsoft was the OG for corporate cringe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ

Re:Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the a... by fzzzy on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:56PM (#45296451)
Developers developers developers developers!
Re:Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the a... by all2 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:08PM (#45296514)
One of the best mashups on youtube came from this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE

Enjoy. :)

Re:Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the a... by dreamcompiler on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:53PM (#45297157)
Oh my god.

How strong does a company's reality distortion field have to be for people to think your friends are going to want to come over to play with a new version of Windows?

I mean, why not "Let's all have wine and cheese and do root canals on each other!"?

Re:Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the a... by Ancapistani on Friday September 19, 2025 @09:45PM (#45309239)
It was a different time.

I honestly was excited about Windows 95. Win98 was underwhelming, and WinME was a joke that I never bothered to install on my own machines. Win2K brought back some of the excitement, but not much.

Then Vista came out, and it was a total flop at first. Win7 fixed most of those mistakes, but the damage was done. Vista basically killed any chance Microsoft had at building excitement for an OS.

FWIW, I think the last macOS version that I was really looking forward to was High Sierra.

Re:Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the a... by Anamon on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @07:12AM (#45358753)
Yeah, younger folks don't remember that new operating systems used to be a thing of excitement -- what cool new features will we get? -- and not, like today, a thing of distress -- what did they break this time, and which new ways have they found to piss me off

I remember my dad driving us to the local Windows 95 pre-launch event by Microsoft. I was 10 and had learned the ridiculous and useless skills of DOS memory configuration and bootdisk juggling to get all of the games to run. Win95 was so cool! I remember spending hours on the multimedia catalog and demos on the CD-ROM and marvelling at the possibilities.

Re:Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the a... by monocasa on Friday September 19, 2025 @12:21AM (#45297918)
Everyone forgets about this cringe from Microsoft, but it is oddly endearing to me too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zww2ivWdLas

Re:Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the a... by roryirvine on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:22AM (#45300350)
It goes back waaay further than that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLuC4yZk7us