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Microsoft fool the blogosphere

Who said Microsoft people had no sense of humour? After making the below video, bloggers were quick to point out the inherent lameness (and truth be told, it is extremely lame indeed) in everything Microsoft. Gizmodo put up a post titled “Internal Microsoft Vista Video is as Painful as Videos Get”, while Engadget chimed in with “Microsoft burns our eyes with Vista promo video.” Not to be outdone, CrunchGear added its 2 cents with “Don’t shoot the messenger: Microsoft internal promo video about Windows Vista is hard to watch.”

But who would’ve thought Microsoft had it in them to deliberately poke fun at themselves, and in turn, fool all the technorati out there? It was confirmed by a Microsoft representative that it was a spoof:

“They thought folks internally would get a kick out of not taking themselves so seriously all the time, but some people thought that’s exactly what they were being–serious. Anyway, this little piece of art came to life and has caused quite a few laughs in Microsoft’s hallways.”

Ha ha indeed.