neopostmodern, 26 days ago

@ernie Did you find/get the video in the end?

ernie, 26 days ago

@neopostmodern Sadly, no. Ray Ozzie has it but he didn’t get back to me.

If anyone else wants to give him a nudge, I’d welcome it

404mediaco, 2 months ago

@ernie let’s put a bounty out for this vid

ernie, 2 months ago

@404mediaco Between you and me we can get the computing legend with better things to do to deliver the goods

https://writing.exchange/@ernie/112241976961694505

ironicsans, 2 months ago

@ernie Try Steve Young. He made a whole documentary about corporate musicals. https://www.steveyoungworld.com/

ernie, 2 months ago

@ironicsans I'll give him a shot, thanks!

ernie, 2 months ago

If there was video of this, it was once here:

https://vimeopro.com/rozzie/wfw

bitsgalore, 2 months ago

@ernie FWIW I had a quick look in @internetarchive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170211021700/https://vimeopro.com/rozzie/wfw

Then by inspecting the source I found the actual video used to be hosted here on Vimeo:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170215223342/https://player.vimeo.com/video/69926880

But sadly the actual video is not included in the snapshot.

bitsgalore, 2 months ago

@ernie Oh wait, missed that the vimeopro domain is/was also part of Vimeo, so my last Toot probably isn't very useful after all.

ernie, 2 months ago

@bitsgalore no worries. I also sent a message to @rozzie who appears to be the uploader

ernie, 2 months ago

@osnews once posted it, with this description:

“I’m not even going to try to characterise or summarise this event, because it’s so incredibly Microsoftian and ’90s, the English language simply doesn’t contain enough words to paint an accurate picture.”

https://www.osnews.com/story/29655/the-windows-for-workgroups-launch-event/

@thomholwerda please tell me you saved this video somewhere

ernie, 2 months ago

Found an article on @washingtonpost: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1992/11/02/now-windows-the-musical/e3225174-576a-4a65-abad-9cf462d8ff9b/

The “play” opened on Broadway and is described as such:

ernie, 2 months ago

Also an AP story with an additional photo of Bill Gates in rehearsals: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jackson-sun-microsoft-does-broadway/144869748/

ernie, 2 months ago

Gates’ assessment of his performance: “That was so bad, I thought Ballmer was going to retch.”

https://archive.org/details/howwebwaswonmic00andr/page/92/mode/2up