Only thing this was missing was someone putting a chokehold on someone else while whispering "don't fight it!"

Needs more crashing.

Novel, but just another dying gasp.

The pc-based office franchise will be essentially dead within five years.

Use what you have.
Stay in touch with cloud-based app progress.

Good thing the movie was on YouTube.

The "official" movie site requires me to install Silverlight, which being Microsoft software, would doubtless turn my MacBook into a helpless thrall-bot of Kim Jong Il in his never-ending quest to bring down whitehouse.gov.

I also could have installed it on one of my Ubuntu boxen, but then Richard Stallman would kill me with his open-source ninja powers.

I see you are trying to revitalize an increasingly obsolete business model. Would you like help?

I thought it was catchy, but too long. What's wrong with Office?

Cool movie. Terrible ad. At no point during the clip did I start to care about Office, or fucking Clippy.

@legwork: I have found no software, online or off, that retains the strength and functionality of the Microsoft Office Suite.

Granted, OpenOffice does hold its own, as far as serving as an alternative to those of us who do not wish to pay for Microsoft Office. But you certainly can't argue that OO is nearly as powerful or as feature-ful.

As far as cloud computing is concerned, GoogleDoc is the only real contender I've seen to shake the waters. And it's even less functional than OO. I seriously doubt PC-based office suites will ever be dead (barring the eventual evolution of a computer beyond what we think of it as today), let alone within the next 5 years.

I'm sad to admit this but one of the main reasons I still use Office 2003 is becasue I got to keep "Links", the animated help wizard cat. Not even kidding.

@I Love New Jersey: Zing!

@legwork: i'm guessing you don't deal much with spreadsheets.

so, clippy is dead? or is he going to be reborn? i'm confused. i shut him up back in 2000 & still have nightmares every time i use a paper clip. please, please don't bring him back.

@Alexander Saites: I agree. I don't want my ability to work tied to my ability to access the Internet. Furthermore, I've dealt with very large interlinked spreadsheets that I would not like to see auto-update over a coffeehouse wireless connection. Cloud computing will undoubetly get a following, but it will never upend PC based software.

It always amazes me how technology moves in circles. The record player worked by spinning a large disc and reading the grooves with a needle, then we moved to magnetic tape media, then CD's where a disc is spun and the grooves read by a laser. Floppy disks lead to CD-R's, then to SD cards-back to dick form. Now we see the old "dumb terminal" models-where everything was on a server-being repeated in cloud computing.

Watch for GM's 2011 models-quadrapeds that you straddle like a scooter.

@henrygates: Where do I start?

@Wuhao: Calling it a little prematurely, aren't you?

@legwork: So...have you dealt with ANY governmental agency? ANY of them? Most, if not all, are buried in the quagmire that is Microsoft. US gov't contracts alone with Microsoft could probably keep it afloat.

@Coles_Law: Please don't put phalluses in my computer.

@legwork: because, after all, no corporate or personal documents can be hacked and downloaded anywhere in the world, and the internet works 100% of the time everywhere in the world.

@Wuhao:

@RogerTheAlien: Unfortunate typo for me. However, it does explain why my camera wouldn't save pictures.

@Thaddeus:

I love the kitty. I hated Clippy.

Cute ad. I liked at around 1:40 where they shone the flashlights into each others' eyes. I laughed and rewound it a couple of times.

I'm very tired.

I'm sorry that was just one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Can't wait to get the new office, does it comes with the full length movie? Maybe an Ultimate bonus? I'd get the ultimate pack for this. Maybe...

Anyone remember that Bill Gates is no longer Chairman at Microsoft? Gates' last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008.

Learn the new name to pummel ... Steve Ballmer.

If you're gonna carp, get the facts straight.

@bobert: I guess you have never tried Apple's iTunes or Apple's QuickTime on Microsoft Windows. Sigh....

Besides that it was quite cute. Sure beats the tired "Mac vs. PC" commercials.

@YOXIM: You mean you actually gave it some thought to getting carnal with Clippy? Ewwww....

Stupid at software, and stupid at movie marketing too. And Ballmer is a big fat bald loudmouth idiot. I can't wait for Google to do the funky Michael Jackson dance on his grave.

@YOXIM: I would only watch the full movie if they PROMISED to take the Word developers and do some deep torture on their faces and eyeballs they so richly deserve. WORST SOFTWARE EVER PERIOD. You were EVIL to design it that way and YOU KNOW IT.

The grave symbology is indeed perfect for all of Office, not just fucking clippy. Between Google Docs, Open Office and all the other free varieties attacking on all sides, the days of bloated greedy stupid development charging 500% more than the damn mofo thing is worth are numbered at best.

After pissing everyone and their dog off by needlessly, pointlessly and cruelly moving everything around where people can't find anything with "ribbons" in 2007, I can ONLY IMAGINE how they are going to punish us in 2010. Nuking documents on the screen? Having documents change to code cryptically on you when you are almost done and haven't saved them? Can't wait!

Seriously people, just laugh and refuse to buy it.

@legwork: Cloud computing... are you serious? Not only is it a fad, but it is single handedly the biggest security risk.

@WhoAsked You: Gods yes, 'ribbons' is hell. I only found out because I bought some new computers (finally replaced the 1ghz athlon i'd been working with) and they came with office trials. I've been an OOo user for a few years now (their PDF exporter gives the best results, equal to my wife doing it at work on her mac system with the full CS3 suite (she works at a publishing house))

What started me was back in 2000, I had to do a windows reinstall, and needed to deal with a bunch of word and excel docs for an event. My office 97 CD was scratched to hell (and i needed to edit, so viewer was no good). Event was in 3 days. Ran to the PC store, MS office was 385GBP, 495 for the pro. Then I noticed Star Office, 39.99, and same features. (staroffice is/was the version of openoffice that contained the bits of code they can't 'give away', mostly in the database part, iirc).

Not only the windows version on that disc, but Mac, linux and BSD as well (apparently). Not looked back since.

@BuddyGuyMontag: brilliant!

@bobert: I really appreciate you using the term "boxen." It brightened my day.

@legwork:

Yeah, because almost every business in this country doesn't use Outlook, Word, and Excel on a daily basis.

@legwork: For offices cloud computing is going to be a headache as updates are not controlled by the IT Department but by the developer of the software.

Most IT departments will stick with Office for years to come.

@Wuhao: Almost everyone I know uses Microsoft Office. How is it obsolete?

Microsoft and Bruckheimer; two the the finest names in explosions and crashes.

@WhoAsked You: Windows and Office are still the best and most intuitive software in their respective fields.

Most people use Microsoft because they're no hassle and just work and there are people like you saying that it sucks. Without logic or reason.

@WhoAsked You: "500% more than the damn mofo thing is worth" So the software should be free? How do you pay the developers? Not everyone can create an advertising empire like Google can.

@bobert: Actually, Silverlight works pretty well on my MacBook (I have it installed because I need it to watch my Netflix Instant Play).

It's definitely not any worse than Flash... which is a mess on the Mac.

@MostlyHarmless: I don't know, where do you start? Office has always worked fine for me.

@mac-phisto: Pssst......clippy might be gone, but they quietly replaced him with Microsoft Bob.

@dave_coder: Sorry but you are out of your freaking mind.

Windows is a nightmare to administer in an business environment. Office is bloatware at its finest.

@WhoAsked You: Agree 110%, this only proves that they are running out of ideas and ways to get people to buy office. The movie was cute and funny in some places, but it says nothing about Office 2010 (features, interface, improvements?), and to me that says a lot.

@Coles_Law: If it makes you feel any better, I got quite a laugh out of the typo and RogerTheAlien's comment.

@Thaddeus: The main reason that I don't use Office 2003 is that the corporate IT guys refuse to upgrade me from office XP/2000 :(

Seriously, we're running 9 year old software here. While it absolutely does everything I need it to do (light word processing and light spreadsheets) we are continually running across the everyone-sends-files-in-incompatible-formats problem, though (again) IT doesn't believe that's an actual problem.