The World’s Worst Infomercial EVER.
Thank You, Microsoft

By Wednesday January 14, 2009

I cannot manage to get through this whole thing. It’s that bad.

Found by Rick Salsman.



78 Comments
  1. Satman says:
    1/14/2009 at 5:32 pm

    OMG Microsoft BoB meets karaoke and shower singers… this is some nasty stuff

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  2. QB says:
    1/14/2009 at 5:48 pm

    First the iPhone Ocarina, now this. Excuse me, must find scotch.

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  3. Mister Mustard says:
    1/14/2009 at 6:11 pm

    #58 – ‘dro

    >>what was yanked was that beloved “change”
    >>of yours.

    My beloved change was yanked? ‘Dro! Wtf, dude? You’re gibbering like a gol dang chimp, boy!

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  4. hhopper says:
    1/14/2009 at 6:12 pm

    You guys rant all you want. This software will be purchased by millions of wannabes out there. Just look at how many show up for American Idol auditions and can’t hold a tune in a paper bag. Mark my words… MS will make a lot of money from this.

    Here’s another example from Songsmith.

    In the right hands, it has possibilities.

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  5. somecalmetim says:
    1/14/2009 at 6:18 pm

    This commercial is awful.

    I am pretty sure MS Songsmith is the 3rd horseman of the apocalypse and we should all be very scared…but…it is going to make a sh*tload of money from the parents of young girls before the end.

    …and besides it’s Microsoft so it’s pretty easy to use.

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  6. QB says:
    1/14/2009 at 6:26 pm

    OK had a Bowmore. Brain cells cleared.

    I’m feeling really sorry for some poor guy in MS Research who has spent the last 20 years of his life coding, going to school, going to grad school, and countless hours researching and designing this – which may be a pretty cool program.

    Then some marketing gurk with a degree in catology produces this gerbil vomit.

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  7. neko says:
    1/14/2009 at 10:32 pm

    this might be under ripley’s belive it or not.
    but i think i saw this ad on tv my area must have been the test market. i couldn’t watch 10secs of it and didn’t know what it was for in tell i saw this.

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  8. Jim says:
    1/14/2009 at 11:26 pm

    Oh I can see possibilities — throw in bits of dialog from various tv shows and movies and see what it does with them. Especially someone with perfect diction and cadence, maybe a few Shakespearean actors.

    The marketing folks need to be shot with heavy mortars, but if it was redone and marketed properly it will probably do very well for kids and the occasional “song writer”.

    If I was writing a song it would be useful to run the lyrics through and try different settings to see if I can come up with a better way of singing it — which is pretty much what songwriters, composers and singers do, ya know.

    Just not on a computer run by an idiot.

    In this flaming towel world of theirs, I’d be the other pitch-man with the pained expression. Plus I’d be telling that client they are insane and really should take a long vacation.

    Of course they’d be out of business within six months anyway, so it’s a moot point.

    I feel a musical coming on.

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  9. rzwo says:
    1/15/2009 at 12:45 am

    OMG! Where’s the DRM to protect me from this crap!

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  10. Aleksander Morozoff, Ukraine says:
    1/15/2009 at 1:08 am

    >Only Microsoft can save the “Glow in the Dark Towel” campaign.

    No, Microsoft even will not think about.

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  11. Uncle Patso says:
    1/15/2009 at 2:24 am

    Huh?

    Is this seriously supposed to sell anything to anyone?

    Also:

    Huh?

    #39, it’s still there in _my_ browser…

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  12. jokerfile says:
    1/15/2009 at 5:53 am

    MMM want to copy Apple Garageband’s learn a song function, but can’t get hold of the stars,well microsoft knows how to copy quite well. Even the laptop in this infomertial is a Macbook badly Decorated!!! jees man.

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  13. Miguel says:
    1/15/2009 at 7:22 am

    Dudes, look at the ‘Science is Cool’ video!

    http://tinyurl.com/6tz69c

    Really, it’s cute :)

    OK, just woke up and it’s way past 3 PM… :/

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  14. orangetiki says:
    1/15/2009 at 11:03 am

    Why do I have the feeling that this is Microsoft’s version of Garage Band?

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  15. WanKhairil says:
    1/15/2009 at 2:00 pm

    I thought this was some kind of joke, but when the URL actually loaded from MS’ website, I cringed, and I’m pretty sure my brain actually got confused and sent out a “fight or flight” reaction. Such a scary moment. Aiiiihhhh…. Microsoft, stop it.

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  16. Fritze says:
    1/15/2009 at 8:28 pm

    I think I just threw up a bit in my mouth, yarrrg!!!

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  17. Edmond Dantès says:
    1/16/2009 at 10:36 am

    Come on people, this is a Microsoft Research project. It is a very positive sign that Microsoft now allows their PhDs to play around without marketing interference.

    It is a joke at the nature of most of pop music which is already computer generated and the fools in the audience swallow it whole. But bear in mind that there are very sophisticated ideas behind songsmith. It is a show case of these concepts and never meant as product.

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  18. neel says:
    1/25/2009 at 6:34 pm

    please kill me. i just suffered the whole thing.

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