Something funny, From Microsoft (No really!)
Written on 11th December 2007
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
The following movie was created by Geert Desager who works as a trade Marketing Manager for Microsoft. The movie is beautiful and it is hard to believe that Microsoft came up with this. Even Geert seems to wonder about that openly on his blog. He writes:
“by the end of the month, I’ll be able to tell you whether I still work as a Marketing Manager at Microsoft, or whether this project finally turned itself against me”
Now watch the movie:
Considering that the movie has won its first award and is being referenced on thousands of blogs by now I’m pretty sure that he is going to be at Microsoft for a long time.
On the other hand… aah no, lets be optimistic and friendly for a chance.
I didn’t think I would ever write these words, but here we go: Thank you Microsoft!
UPDATE: Geert left a comment here to tell us that Microsoft didn’t fire his ass but handed him an award and shipped him off to Singapore. Good for him!
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By LennieZ on Dec 12, 2007
Hehe of course Microsoft haves a sense of humor :-)
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By Geert on Dec 13, 2007
Thanks for the positive comments. And indeed, it hasn’t worked against me. Quite on the contrary: I won an internal award with it and it helped me land a new job within Microsoft in Singapore ;-)
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By LennieZ on Dec 13, 2007
@Geert: They just wanted you far away from them, all the way to Singapore ;-) Im kidding very nice job!
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By trontalt on Dec 22, 2007
Of course Microsoft have a sense of humor, they made Windows Vista
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By SyntaxError on Dec 24, 2007
LMAO trontalt, nice one. Great stuff Geert!
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By fat Tony on Dec 25, 2007
So, Microsoft figured it out…what people want.
Please, please pass the word to the spammers, Television Commercial Manufacturers, Pop-Up Ads (pop-thru, pop-behind, pop-around included), and the hideous flash based web-ads (ironic choice of naming as most of them flash and bloom more than Halo 3 combined with the typical metropolitan 4th of July)
Allow customers to rate all ads not only by clicking to buy swag, but to actually say thumbs-up and thumbs down.
Make the ads content as the clip above is a not-so-covert advertisement. Then people will damn near pay to see the ad, as well as potentially buy whatever shiny new gizmo-gadget making the producer double the dosh!
Tony
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By fat Tony on Dec 25, 2007
P.S. I know what flash based means…
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By David on Dec 31, 2007
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I watched this…
You could have changed the names on the shirts to “Microsoft” (the Guy) and “Everyone Else” (the Girl)…
We have been telling Microsoft that they don’t listen to us, that we really don’t want more “bloat ware” etc…but do they listen?
Look, I worked at Microsoft for 6 years…long enough that now I run Linux, have a Linux Server, I use FireFox, Thunderbird, Open Office, and GOM (anything) to get away from them…
In 2 years I haven’t had any issues…certainly not like my grandmother, who runs Windows…I rebuild her machine regularly…
She says she is too old for Linux – to learn something new…but I swear, if I have to rebuild her machine ONE MORE TIME, I will put Linux on the box and she will just have to deal with it…at least then, I might go a year without having to rebuild the machine…
And don’t get me started on Vista (Longhorn)…AHHHHHHH!
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