As previously posted back on February 26th about the hilarious video about what the packaging of the iPod would look like if Microsoft marketed the product comes a welcome update to that story.
Microsoft Confirms it Originated iPod Box Parody Video
From Scoble:
Yes, we can laugh at ourselves. The marketing team did it to challenge the box designers for our products to do better. We need more of this stuff. Microsoft is a consensus culture and consensus (which means everyone has to sign off on things) does avoid trouble, but it also makes for uninspired products and marketing. That is our internal challenge to figure out, that’s for sure!
I say, fantastic! That was really well done and it’s good to know that Microsoft can still have a part of itself that is capable of poking fun and having a good laugh at its own expense. The thing that makes the video so good is that its entire true but that was kind of the point all along. Anyway, it was cool to see that this classic video in fact originated from Redmond but the really funny part will be to watch the marketing of their upcoming products and see if they actually paid attention to the message in the video.
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