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Smoked by Windows Phone? Is anyone else reminded of the funeral procession Microsoft held for iPhone a few years ago?

http://www.intomobile.com/2010/09/10/microsoft-windows-phone...

Not just the funeral procession, but also the recent Google-salesman ad, and just about every attempt at marketing MS has done in the last few years.

I really have to wonder, how is it that Microsoft is seemingly so completely disconnected from reality? In what crazy world did the Seinfeld ads look amazing and awesome? Where the iPhone funeral procession would look like anything other than premature celebration? Where the anti-Google ad looked anything other than sleazy and underhanded?

Though I have a theory. MS's marketing stunts have been known to be unnecessarily hostile to the competition, overly self-congratulatory, seemingly unaware of why people choose the competitor, has overtones of arrogance... remind you of a CEO? :)

I thought this ad was pretty good and makes fun of the old versions of IE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4...

Well, except that the protagonist is an obsessive ideologue nerd who would rather hate a Web browser than be happy. If that's supposed to be an apology then it's the ultimate "I'm sorry you feel that way".

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