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

By: neel

neel — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:34:39 +0000

please kill me. i just suffered the whole thing.

By: Edmond Dantès

Edmond Dantès — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:36:47 +0000

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.

By: Fritze

Fritze — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:28:34 +0000

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

By: WanKhairil

WanKhairil — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:00:09 +0000

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.

By: orangetiki

orangetiki — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:03:52 +0000

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

By: Miguel

Miguel — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:22:30 +0000

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… :/

By: jokerfile

jokerfile — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:53:37 +0000

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.

By: Uncle Patso

Uncle Patso — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:24:13 +0000

Huh?

Is this seriously supposed to sell anything to anyone?

Also:

Huh?

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

By: Aleksander Morozoff, Ukraine

Aleksander Morozoff, Ukraine — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:08:50 +0000

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

No, Microsoft even will not think about.

By: rzwo

rzwo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:45:22 +0000

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

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:26:50 +0000

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.

By: neko

neko — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:32:50 +0000

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.

By: QB

QB — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:26:57 +0000

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.

By: somecalmetim

somecalmetim — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:18:06 +0000

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.

By: hhopper

hhopper — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:12:49 +0000

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.