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Bill Gates & Steve Balmer Windows '98 ad...
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The video was produced for and shown at a Company Meeting, where spoofs of popular television advertisements were a staple. While it’s true that the cheesy Steve Ballmer Windows video had bad music, bad hair, and bad acting, it’s also true that all that cheese was intentional.

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The commercial, also known as the "Crazy Steve" video, was a parody of late-night television advertisements and was influenced by the popular Crazy Eddie commercials. The video was shot in one of the Microsoft old-campus buildings.

For those who don't know, this commercial references the Will Ferrell 1998 classic movie "A Night at the Roxbury"

There once was a day we were all really excited about the launch of Windows 98 Can you imagine?

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Simpler times

They look so happy! The world would be a better place if they had stayed that way,

this was peak microsoft, back when they actually tried to be fun instead of just pushing out boring corporate updates every month

In 1975: Gates starts Microsoft! By the age of 20 Gates and school friend Paul Allen were already running Microsoft ! or rather Micro-Soft.

