Simon Willison’s Weblog

Silly MS-DOS 5 Promo Video. I can’t decide if this is better or worse than the Windows 386 rap.

# 13th September 2007, 10:10 am / funny, microsoft, msdos, windows, youtube

The Sarcastic Gamer: MS Surface. “Your next computer will be a big-ass table.”

# 21st June 2007, 11:42 am / funny, microsoft, surface

i’m Home. “Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective organisations dedicated to social causes.” Microsoft are now getting their marketing ideas from spam e-mail forwards.

# 2nd March 2007, 10:43 am / funny, im, microsoft, spam

Microsoft confirms Vista Speech Recognition remote execution flaw. “I have verified that I can create a sound file that can wake Vista speech recognition, open Windows Explorer, delete the documents folder, and then empty the trash.”

# 1st February 2007, 5:19 pm / funny, microsoft, security, speechrecognition, vista