Mirthful Microsoft
March 15th, 2006Scobleizer – Microsoft Geek Blogger » I gotta take more days off
Speaking of fun stuff, yeah, Microsoft did the iPod box design parody video. Yes, we can laugh at ourselves. The marketing team did it to challenge the box designers for our products to do better. We need more of this stuff. Microsoft is a consensus culture and consensus (which means everyone has to sign off on things) does avoid trouble, but it also makes for uninspired products and marketing. That is our internal challenge to figure out, that’s for sure!
Microsoft can laugh at itself now? That’s not the Microsoft we all know and loathe. The iPod packaging parody was one of the funnier things I’ve come across lately. Pleased to hear that it was an internal production. What an excellent way for frustrated creatives to make a point to the company at large, by being creative.
In case you missed it, here’s the iPod box parody video.
Add this to the recent Microsoft blogger invervention to fix Hugh’s Wifi. A Microsoft blogger Kieth Combs caught his rants and troubleshot his hardware. Turned out to be hardware issue, not a Microsoft issue.
Microsoft is uniquely poised to leverage the blogosphere for customer service. They’ve been snapping up talent these many years, and now their setting these folks loose.
It’s customer service mayhem.
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