Watch Microsoft's First Windows 8 Commercial Here

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By Jane McEntegart
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Microsoft just kicked off its Windows 8 TV campaign with its first ad for the new OS.

After months of waiting, Microsoft's Windows 8 is almost here. Microsoft has scheduled the launch for October 26 and plans to launch its Surface tablets at the same time. While Microsoft is keeping pretty quiet about the Surface, it's taking a different approach with Windows 8. There's already been several preview releases of the software, and several hardware partners have already made announcements regarding upcoming Windows 8 devices.

Microsoft upped the ante, releasing the first Windows 8 commercial. Check it out below:

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32 Comments Comment from the forums
  • EDVINASM
    Also for those who haven't seen the Surface ad:
    http://youtu.be/8mSckyoAMHg
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  • wysir
    This is so sad and poor at the same time. Poor product, from what I know. Sad commercial for trying to blend it in with a subliminal message and 'happy' moments.
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  • EDVINASM
    wysirThis is so sad and poor at the same time. Poor product, from what I know. Sad commercial for trying to blend it in with a subliminal message and 'happy' moments.
    Agree. When you look at the Surface commercial looks much more professional and polished. This one looks dull and home made. Was this made on some free Windows Movie Editor? :-)
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  • killerclick
    Fingers crossed for Windows 8 (and Surface and WP8) crashing and burning. They shouldn't have messed with the desktop.
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  • Realization just hit me that we are really going to be stuck with Shitty metro on our desktop, and a little sick came up!
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  • toms my babys daddy
    I wonder what spam company they paid to thumbs up their yt video 3000 times. lol
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  • maximus81
    I love how all the computers are touch screens. Lets see how great this pile is when you use a mouse and keyboard.
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  • catswold
    @maximus81, yeah, and no doubt people will be crowding into computer stores to drop twice as much on a touch-screen monitor . . . LOL!!!

    Let's see, umm, yeah--I'm going to go back to a 22" touch screen monitor that costs twice as much as the 27" LED monitor I'm using now . . . not likely.
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  • hrhuffnpuff
    Wow, all I can say is wow.... Holy hell, for $1.5 billion I was expecting Jenna Jamison (semi-nude), or a worthless baseball player like ARod to show there face in the commercial. Alas, nope. Jenna Jamison alone would make pre-pubescent males go pick up a copy. Now all I can see is a picture of Ozzy Osbourne in that famous photo of him taken a dump....with a Win 8 retail box under his derriere.
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  • Firion87
    hmmm seems to perfectly describe the crapple-touch generation. Lots of colors, playing games that should be free browser games within FLASH, without any clear structure on hardware that is to expensive for anybody (what was the basic idea of a PC???) and all day long laughing because they are to sad to cry. I'll stick to my oldfashioned non-smartphone, classic desktop playing crysis (1-2h at night) and getting out meeting real people....bye
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