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Another one of those Vista commercials that doesn’t really show why you should buy Vista, it just shows how happy people are when using it.

Windows Vista - Clearification.com - 419 views

A very strange animated clip, described as ” Viral marketing video for Windows Vista”.

Windows Vista Germany Launch - 423 views

A clip of the action surrounding the release of Vista in Germany.

The Wow Starts Now - WinHEC 07 - 662 views

A terrible video from WinHEC 2007 showing events surrounding the Vista release. To much motion, makes your eyes want to cross…

The Certified for Windows Vista coach - 770 views

Here’s a slightly humorous clip from WinHEC 2007 about a coach getting Vista devices coordinated so he can print a card for his grandma.

Eleksen SideShow bag for Windows Vista - 636 views

A vendor shows a computer bag with a SideShow screen on the outside so you can see your e-mail or song list or ? without opening the bag.

Windows Rally demonstration video - 775 views

The Windows Experience Blog talks about Windows Rally, “a set of technologies that ship as part of the standards for being a Certified for Windows Vista device”. Here’s a video from a presentation at WinHEC 2007 of the Windows Rally technologies. They make everything look so easy!

Video: WinHEC 2007 - Windows Rally Demo

Install free games on Windows Vista Business - 1,355 views

If you are running Vista Business you didn’t get any games installed by default. Here’s a video that shows how to install those games after the fact.

Using the Xbox 360 Controller in Windows Vista - 1,041 views

The Windows Experience Blog talks about the Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, and has a demo video showing how it can be used to control the games that come with Vista.

Windows Vista Tips and Tricks - 1,564 views

A decent five minute video showing a number of Vista’s features. Wasn’t crazy about the background music, but the mute button quickly solved that issue.

Apple Get a Mac Ad: Party is Over - 496 views

Apple just keeps pushing out the Get a Mac ads. This one is the ‘Vista Release Party’, but PC is bummed because he needs hardware upgrades to work with Vista.

Get a Mac: “Knocking” - 477 views

An as-of-yet unreleased Apple commercial bashing Vista for needing drivers. Are they suggesting that Macs don’t use drivers? They sound so heavenly, perhaps I should be using a Mac! Hmm, perhaps it’s just that not many manufacturers make drivers for the Mac. With not as many options available to the Mac, it obviously doesn’t need [...]

Windows Vista speech recognition - the whole story - 735 views

There are plenty of clips showing Vista’s speech recognition feature failing, and one of the most popular is “MSFT Financial Analyst Meeting 2006: Steve Ballmer”. It appears that most of the clips from this event were edited prior to distribution and while they include the speech recognition acting crazy, they don’t include what happened right [...]

Apples ‘Choose a Vista’ Commercial - 467 views

Apple is still throwing jabs at Microsoft with it’s Mac vs PC ads. This one has PC using a spinning wheel with the six different versions of Vista as a way of deciding which to buy. Of course the Mac only offers one version that has ‘everything you need’, while Vista Ultimate is described as [...]

Sounds: XP vs Vista - 722 views

A simple video that plays a sound from XP, then the equivalent sound from Vista.

How does Vista run on your machine? - 437 views

A Vista user demonstrates the responsiveness of Vista on his AMD QuadFX computer in response to another video that had shown it as being very slow.

TweakVista.com demo of Yod’m 3D - 530 views

If Flip3D isn’t cool enough for you, how about having four desktops, and accessing them through a spinning cube?

Windows Vista. Too many versions + too much confusion? - 380 views

A C|Net video that covers some of the differences between the versions, including some of the features that might not work if you computer isn’t strong enough.

Using Vista’s Speech to Control Robot - 432 views

Someone demonstrating the use of Vista’s voice recognition to control a remote control robot. Not sure if this one is real or not as their is lots of background noise (sounds like a party going on) yet almost every command is picked up properly.

Successful Vista Speech Recognition? - 345 views

After all the unsuccessful speech recognition videos, here is one that is supposedly successful. I say supposedly because the audio is a little hard to understand, and the screen is a little hard to see.

The Regan family pushes the button to launch Windows Vista at CES - 246 views

A lame rap about the Vista launch followed by the kids in one of the Vista beta testing families pressing the ‘launch’ button that sets all kinds of noise…

Living with Vista press coverage @ CES - 434 views