Where is the Microsoft marketing team getting their great drugs?

Over the past little while we have been seeing some really different advertising coming out of the Monster at Redmond. Sure a lot of people didn’t like the Seinfeld and Bill ads (I thought they were marginally funny) and some thought the Laptop Hunter adds were a good departure for the company. Meanwhile the reaction to the recent Internet Explorer ads was again mixed with some thinking they were hilarious (myself included) and others thinking they were just stupid.

I’ll leave it up to you to decide which sides the typical Microsoft vs. Apple people teamed up with but the series of ads they are doing for Office 2010 carry on the warped and funny aspect of all their recent product advertisements. Like where else would you find the hero crying to the sky at the headstone for Clippy or see full scale action special effects usually found in actions movies.

I only hope that they continue this funky ad campaign style when it comes to Windows 7 hitting the market.

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