Microsoft - this is just embarrassing
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Rocky Moore posted this but it needs full exposure so everyone can stand back and understand exactly why Microsft have failed to capture our excitement: ComingZune - Microsoft's iPod killer[^] Don't try and be all crazy and out there and viral and totally cool and deep and intriguing. Because that is just so lame I can't believe it's actually there, live, on my screen. Maybe it's just me but when I look at iPod.com[^] I can see what it's about and get the feeling that it's kinda hip, plays music, and looks clean and easy to use. When I look at comingzune I feel strangely sad and depressed and never want to go back there or hear the word Zune again. Has it got something to do with being bullied? Or maybe it's for kids whose parents have gone through a divorce. Or maybe, just maybe, it's some poor flash designers flash-back about their poor rabbit Freckles who was run over by a car all those years ago and he never stopped blaming himself. Microsoft - PLEASE - make it go away. This is a new low for you.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Erm, an advert showing a dirty looking old man inviting a small child to play with his bunny That's so wrong on so many levels! :wtf:
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Yeah, it was amazing that company the size of Microsoft would put out something so lame. Wonder if they just handed it off to a new recruit to do the site.. Guess it just goes to show that drug testing in job field does not work ;)
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Their Xbox advertising campains have been just as odd - I guess somebody high up in MS PR is smoking something...
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Is that really Microsoft? A whois lookup on the domain reveals it is a GoDaddy.com registered domain for Domains by Proxy. Not exactly what I'd expect from a Microsoft domain name lookup. [edit]And I don't see the Microsoft logo anywhere! And it doesn't require Windows Genuine Rabbit Advantage to run, either![/edit] Mike -- modified at 22:44 Monday 24th July, 2006
Mike_V wrote:
Is that really Microsoft
Mike_V wrote:
Not exactly what I'd expect from a Microsoft domain name lookup.
Exactly. Look at the "terms of use" it say: "COPYRIGHT NOTICE. Copyright © 2004 Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052-6399 U.S.A. All rights reserved. " Note the 2004 ;)
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not really OT :laugh:
The flash animation was! ;)
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I don't understand this. Why does microsoft need to create another mp3 player, can't they just concentrate on making things better? Let other make 'em. Is it only greed that drives them?
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Dinuj Nath wrote:
Is it only greed that drives them?
They're in the business of making money for their stockholders, just like most companies.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Marc, you have to. Think of the rabbits. cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Marc, you have to
That's just cruel, Chris. What has Marc ever done to you to make you want to try and get him to watch it. Graham
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Dinuj Nath wrote:
Is it only greed that drives them?
MS hates when other companies dominate a market. We joke about it now, but there could be a MS Toaster in the future. :-D
Jeremy Falcon
I can see it now. It'll require an overclocked dual-core Intel CPU, a minimum of 4G of RAM, and run a special version of Vista Premium Professional Server Bread-Browning Edition™. Toasting will be accomplished by laying the bread over the CPU's heat sink.
Software Zen:
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When introducing a brand name, the most important thing is to get people talking about it. This is the third discussion in only a few days about Zune and the weird website. Seems like the campaign is working quite well. Microsoft thanks you.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
First impressions are the strongest. To me Microsoft has made a statement as to the "feel" of their product. And it feels allll bad.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Did MS's site license for Photoshop run out, forcing their art people to use Paint?
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I can see it now. It'll require an overclocked dual-core Intel CPU, a minimum of 4G of RAM, and run a special version of Vista Premium Professional Server Bread-Browning Edition™. Toasting will be accomplished by laying the bread over the CPU's heat sink.
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Rocky Moore posted this but it needs full exposure so everyone can stand back and understand exactly why Microsft have failed to capture our excitement: ComingZune - Microsoft's iPod killer[^] Don't try and be all crazy and out there and viral and totally cool and deep and intriguing. Because that is just so lame I can't believe it's actually there, live, on my screen. Maybe it's just me but when I look at iPod.com[^] I can see what it's about and get the feeling that it's kinda hip, plays music, and looks clean and easy to use. When I look at comingzune I feel strangely sad and depressed and never want to go back there or hear the word Zune again. Has it got something to do with being bullied? Or maybe it's for kids whose parents have gone through a divorce. Or maybe, just maybe, it's some poor flash designers flash-back about their poor rabbit Freckles who was run over by a car all those years ago and he never stopped blaming himself. Microsoft - PLEASE - make it go away. This is a new low for you.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
all crazy and out there and viral and totally cool and deep and intriguing
Of those they hit the crazy (as in nuts) and viral (as in infectious disease) quite well. Crazy as in fun, no and viral as in viral marketing, no. We've been sending it around the office. Quite funny hearing that creepy music playing from across a corrider and the "sounds of dead silence" from the watcher. And poor Brian, joining Microsoft soon and all. We worry for his sanity.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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Rocky Moore posted this but it needs full exposure so everyone can stand back and understand exactly why Microsft have failed to capture our excitement: ComingZune - Microsoft's iPod killer[^] Don't try and be all crazy and out there and viral and totally cool and deep and intriguing. Because that is just so lame I can't believe it's actually there, live, on my screen. Maybe it's just me but when I look at iPod.com[^] I can see what it's about and get the feeling that it's kinda hip, plays music, and looks clean and easy to use. When I look at comingzune I feel strangely sad and depressed and never want to go back there or hear the word Zune again. Has it got something to do with being bullied? Or maybe it's for kids whose parents have gone through a divorce. Or maybe, just maybe, it's some poor flash designers flash-back about their poor rabbit Freckles who was run over by a car all those years ago and he never stopped blaming himself. Microsoft - PLEASE - make it go away. This is a new low for you.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
You know, it looks like something IBM would have come up with to compete with the iPod. But then, Microsoft seems to have become IBM.:)
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
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Did MS's site license for Photoshop run out, forcing their art people to use Paint?
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Dinuj Nath wrote:
Is it only greed that drives them?
MS hates when other companies dominate a market. We joke about it now, but there could be a MS Toaster in the future. :-D
Jeremy Falcon
Microsoft should put their name on whatever product their art people are smoking!! :-D
Lost in the vast sea of .NET
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Rocky Moore posted this but it needs full exposure so everyone can stand back and understand exactly why Microsft have failed to capture our excitement: ComingZune - Microsoft's iPod killer[^] Don't try and be all crazy and out there and viral and totally cool and deep and intriguing. Because that is just so lame I can't believe it's actually there, live, on my screen. Maybe it's just me but when I look at iPod.com[^] I can see what it's about and get the feeling that it's kinda hip, plays music, and looks clean and easy to use. When I look at comingzune I feel strangely sad and depressed and never want to go back there or hear the word Zune again. Has it got something to do with being bullied? Or maybe it's for kids whose parents have gone through a divorce. Or maybe, just maybe, it's some poor flash designers flash-back about their poor rabbit Freckles who was run over by a car all those years ago and he never stopped blaming himself. Microsoft - PLEASE - make it go away. This is a new low for you.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
...about their poor rabbit Freckles who was run over by a car all those years ago...
It's 04:00 26-07-2006, I finished work 2.5 hours ago and am sitting here cruising CodeProject instead placing my alcohol order and drinking Longnecks of Coopers Sparkling Ale. This made me laugh out loud. I only knew about the site cause someone else has poated about it at the top of the Lounge.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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First impressions are the strongest. To me Microsoft has made a statement as to the "feel" of their product. And it feels allll bad.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
But they aren't marketing a product yet, just a name. This is completely inconsequential and has served it's purpose of getting a name out. In the end, it will come down to whether they have a well designed, solid player and a service with an attractive price point (if they do offer to match iTunes lists AND have a good player, I think they'll do quite well.) On the other hand, Mac desktop sales are down and they have those really annoying commercials for them....
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Rocky Moore posted this but it needs full exposure so everyone can stand back and understand exactly why Microsft have failed to capture our excitement: ComingZune - Microsoft's iPod killer[^] Don't try and be all crazy and out there and viral and totally cool and deep and intriguing. Because that is just so lame I can't believe it's actually there, live, on my screen. Maybe it's just me but when I look at iPod.com[^] I can see what it's about and get the feeling that it's kinda hip, plays music, and looks clean and easy to use. When I look at comingzune I feel strangely sad and depressed and never want to go back there or hear the word Zune again. Has it got something to do with being bullied? Or maybe it's for kids whose parents have gone through a divorce. Or maybe, just maybe, it's some poor flash designers flash-back about their poor rabbit Freckles who was run over by a car all those years ago and he never stopped blaming himself. Microsoft - PLEASE - make it go away. This is a new low for you.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
I agree on the embarrasing part - that went around my office - here is a reply I received yesterday on the whole Zune thing: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FYI In Hebrew ZUNE (as Zee-U-NE) means F@#$ Shalom Ilan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Adam Iredale Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 7:27 AM To: ******************************************** Subject: What the? A Zune? *sigh* [no joke] ZUNE? Oh come on. Fire marketing immediately. http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=1592499#xx1592499xx http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/top/microsoft-argos-final-name-the-zune-186359.php
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Rocky Moore posted this but it needs full exposure so everyone can stand back and understand exactly why Microsft have failed to capture our excitement: ComingZune - Microsoft's iPod killer[^] Don't try and be all crazy and out there and viral and totally cool and deep and intriguing. Because that is just so lame I can't believe it's actually there, live, on my screen. Maybe it's just me but when I look at iPod.com[^] I can see what it's about and get the feeling that it's kinda hip, plays music, and looks clean and easy to use. When I look at comingzune I feel strangely sad and depressed and never want to go back there or hear the word Zune again. Has it got something to do with being bullied? Or maybe it's for kids whose parents have gone through a divorce. Or maybe, just maybe, it's some poor flash designers flash-back about their poor rabbit Freckles who was run over by a car all those years ago and he never stopped blaming himself. Microsoft - PLEASE - make it go away. This is a new low for you.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Geez, that looked like a pedophile site. Are you sure it wasn't hacked or something? Or is it Microsoft's way of saying "be friends with the really ugly giant when he lets you pet its software"? :^)
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Rocky Moore posted this but it needs full exposure so everyone can stand back and understand exactly why Microsft have failed to capture our excitement: ComingZune - Microsoft's iPod killer[^] Don't try and be all crazy and out there and viral and totally cool and deep and intriguing. Because that is just so lame I can't believe it's actually there, live, on my screen. Maybe it's just me but when I look at iPod.com[^] I can see what it's about and get the feeling that it's kinda hip, plays music, and looks clean and easy to use. When I look at comingzune I feel strangely sad and depressed and never want to go back there or hear the word Zune again. Has it got something to do with being bullied? Or maybe it's for kids whose parents have gone through a divorce. Or maybe, just maybe, it's some poor flash designers flash-back about their poor rabbit Freckles who was run over by a car all those years ago and he never stopped blaming himself. Microsoft - PLEASE - make it go away. This is a new low for you.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
gonna put my neck out on the line here... but methinks this is all just one big dupe scheme [kinda hoping i'm wrong tho] designed to create conversation [amongst other subversive goals] because no one really wants to get on with real work :laugh: for example, google "Zune": not a single direct reference from Microsoft sure, there are a lot of references TO MS, but it's all one way traffic. even the more "official" looking mail and guardian blogs [and they're not alone]: "Microsoft has announced Zune via an article that you're not allowed to read because it's behind a paywall in Billboard magazine." Puhlease. the sorry stories from someone who read an article that was published secretly by somebody who overheard a conversation about a guy who knows someone who's working in microsoft [4 years ago. as a janitor] and this becomes instant fact? and then there's comingzune, zoneinfo, zuneinsider, zunescene; some dodgy and suspect registrations- not even going into the bunnies. and then search Microsoft.com for Zune [or comingzune] and mmm.. nada. Yeah, some blog references etc.. but nothing "official". It's a clever ploy indeed.. and fir shizzle, some spammer's just legally obtained N email addresses... just maybe? ;) and either way, and a very interesting social psychology paper. and then to defend it all with some catchy phrases like viral marketing and new approach etc... etc... maybe i'm just hostile to "weird" advertising: check, all advertising. but all the cross-references just don't add up... or probably my research methods fail me- somebody got any more "conclusive" evidence?? *** DISCLAIMER: for the too serious.. the following is not for real *** btw: did u hear, codeproject just announced [can't give u the url [yet] becos it's NSA confidential] that they've just released a new algorithm to compete with RSA? of course, codeproject are bound to deny this rumour by agreement with NSA. but pretty exciting, heh? too true. and you won't believe who told me... ;P *** END of not real story ***
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