Microsoft offers up "GMail Man" video parody

[funkydude]

Microsoft has been known to offer up a funny video from time to time to prove a point or just to poke fun at itself. Recently the company held its annual Global Exchange sales conference to help its sales reps sell Microsoft products. One of Microsoft's efforts to help its sales reps at the conference better represent its new cloud based Office 365 software suite is shown above; a sitcom parody that features "GMail Man".

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft...n-video-parody

[J_L]

Funny, and somewhat true.

[Hungry Man]

Pretty funny. Except... GMail collects data "anonymously."

I also don't like smear campaigns of any kind. Especially when the Bing bar does the same thing (for google searches) and then uses those search results in Bing.

This is Apple-level crap campaigning.

[vasa1]

Originally Posted by Hungry Man

Pretty funny. Except... GMail collects data "anonymously."

I also don't like smear campaigns of any kind. Especially when the Bing bar does the same thing (for google searches) and then uses those search results in Bing.

This is Apple-level crap campaigning.

Big bucks are at stake. We need to tune out the hard-sell, the FUD, the spinning of numbers, the "independent" surveys and focus on our genuine needs. The suborning of research by vested interests is nothing new.

[acr1965]

Gmail Man: "got his nose in every colon"

[funkydude]

Originally Posted by vasa1

We need to tune out

Sometimes we only need to tune into the humor and ignore the advertising!

[vasa1]

Originally Posted by funkydude

Sometimes we only need to tune into the humor and ignore the advertising!

If possible, the humour should be classy and subtle, not scatological.