The Dallas Cowboys are a perfect sports analogy to Microsoft. They’re both led by supremely arrogant billionaires who have cornered the market on casual users of their respective products. To wit: nothing says “I know nothing about computers” quite like a guy running Windows Vista Home Edition, and nothing says “I know nothing about football” quite like a guy in, say, North Dakota sporting a Cowboys jersey.
FAILlionaires* Bill Gates and Jerry Jones inadvertently teamed up Saturday to cause havoc at Cowboys Stadium, and it had nothing to do with Sam Bradford’s shoulder sending Oklahoma’s national championship hopes down in flames. Get your nerd flag out and ready to fly.
Yes, that picture above is the ribbon video board from Cowboys Stadium during the OU/BYU debacle on Saturday. From TUAW.COM:
Reader Jeff tells us that they had a breakdown on the scoreboard screens: first, the screens went blank, then displayed some odd ASCII gibberish, then announced to the assembled crowd that things weren’t going so well in Microsoft land. Jeff was there with his trusty iPhone to capture the moment for us, and we present it to you on this day when you’re not working, either.
Seriously? Who uses Microsoft to handle video editing, anyway? This football season can only get better from here on out, on and off the field. We’ve got more tales of technical woes from this first weekend of football action on the way tomorrow, including the sad story of our girl Samantha Steele’s first professional college football broadcast.
*FAIL, in this instance, is a relative term. We would trade all our blogging “success” for, like, 0.5% of either man’s “failure.”
8:11 pm on September 7th, 2009
And nothing says, “I have neither the talent, or desire to construct a decent blog article”, than an article like this. We get it, you like apple, and not microsoft. Weak. Yawn.
9:28 pm on September 7th, 2009
and nothing says, “I’m a d-bag who sits in his mom’s basement waiting to comment on other’s success…oh, and the Cowboys are awesome!!” like the above breakdown by Mike in Fargo. D-bag.
10:11 pm on September 7th, 2009
“Faillionaires”! Love it! I actually prefer Microsoft myself and think Bill Gates is a pretty impressive guy. But we really do need to keep an eye on him. He’s got “James Bond Super Villain” walking around money… ya know? (I also edit videos professionally in Windows.)
11:19 pm on September 7th, 2009
Bill Gates is going to be The Riddler in the next Dark Knight. True.
11:38 pm on September 7th, 2009
This is nothing compared to when Windows crashed during a trade show presentation given by none other than Bill Gates himself.
11:45 pm on September 7th, 2009
Vista had problems early on, but the service packs fixed that. I’ve been running it for years with virtually no hiccups. On the other hand, if you’re an apple fan I wouldn’t upgrade to Snow Leopard. There have been countless reports of problems with the OS. I even read a poll on a apple fan boy site that said only 25% of users DIDN”T encounter problems.
12:09 am on September 8th, 2009
As opposed to the NON-arrogant billionaire who runs Apple…? I’m not getting into a Microsoft vs Apple debate because I don’t give a sh*t, but Bill Gates gives tens of millions of dollars a year to charity, so how is he arrogant?
And if he was….he’s a f***ing billionaire. He can afford to be. Just like the rest of them. Has there ever been a blogger who’s not pissed off at the world and doesn’t use their little rag to complain and mock and make fun of everyone else? Rule #1 for being a blogger: be a complete bitter loser……and go from there.
12:31 am on September 8th, 2009
Q: What’s worse than being a bitter blogger?
A: Being a bitter commenter!
Thanks for reading, J-Dawg!
6:33 pm on September 28th, 2009
This is only a true testimony to how unstable Microsoft can get. If you have used any Apple product or own a Macintosh, you would agree that Apple is the more reliable and stable operating system. Although, I will admit that this will be a never ending battle between the two systems.