Microsoft in Bing jingle kiddie vid outrage Microsoft may well find itself sharing the dock* in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic on a crimes against humanity rap after unleashing a "terrifying" video punting its Bing search thing: What we have here are "400 6th graders from Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, PA" interpreting Bing Goes the Internet by Jonathan …
...looks like he was trying to do something creative with his time....over 200 songs in an equal number of days? Impressive, if only for the longevity and perseverance.
But the school children? That's just sad. I'm afraid there's a chunk of the next generation who should be entirely discounted now. Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y/Why, and now Gen Bing?
Hopefully my daughter is young enough to be counted amongst the generation-after-next....
I think I just vomited a little here.
What's with MS and bad ads, dammit... The song itself is OK, chorus that sticks to the head (yuck) and all that, for a marketing thing. The MS marketing team just needed to throw in some puppies in there to make it complete.
(have to say though that there's a funny ad, involving puppies (rental puppies, more specifically), for some alcoholic beverage showing on TV here in the US these days, so it can be done.)
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All of these children, these poor children, have been swayed by the populace of Windows users and the puppet masters that control them; they know no better, have not been taught that maybe there are other alternatives? This school advertises "Bing" becomes Microsoft pays them, no other. I sit in sorrow for these children, who sing in ignorance, paying no reverence to that of knowledge and understanding. I spit on the grave of the educators of those children's sincerity and love of knowledge and openness.
Blach!
Borg, borg ... borg goes the internet!
Borg, borg ... borg goes the internet!
Borg, borg ... borg goes the internet!
Borg, borg ... borg goes the internet!
Borg, borg ... borg goes the internet!
Borg, borg ... borg goes the internet!
Borg, borg ... borg goes the internet!
Ad infinitum.
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In the hallway scene, the litter all over the floor??
On a bright note, at least they seem fairly uncoordinated, so hopefully they haven't spent too much valuable classroom time on their dance to Dear Leader - woops I mean Bing. On the other hand, some of those kids in back look fairly miserable. I think mental cruelty charges could be warranted.
Eurk, this is exactly why I hate the commercialisation of schools in the UK (aka Academies). Every kid is wearing an Office or Bing t-shirt - that suggests it's been pre-planned in concert with MS to some degree, rather then a spontaneous student idea - what sort of kickback did the school get for doing that?
The kids won't care (Office will be dead by the time they get into the workplace proper, or at least an ageing relic of some older computing paradigm - like saying "BBC Micro" to me now), but that's quite horrible to witness the branding of any company plastered over a school like that. Kids already do that to themselves enough by wanting to paint pictures of their Nike's or do every dance lesson to a top-10 single.
Once worked in a school/Academy that was sponsored by about ten companies - overnight the website had more ads and links and sponsor "news" than anything to do with the school itself (one company even sponsored a chicken coop, complete with chickens, inside the school grounds).
Damn, I argued against setting Google as the default start page in Firefox, but this is just crass.
Microsoft knows how to play the advertisement game.Take something bad, and take it to the extreme. Get exposure with it. Follow up on it. Get exposure again.
Good marketing campaign. cost them almost nothing for maximum exposure. Even El-Reg falls for it (twice).
There is no such thing as bad publicity!
days working out howto get flash working on a Linux X_64 OS running a 64 bit version of firefox
A true story of grit and determination and having to endure 1000's of geeks sneering
"hahaha search the forum luser" only to have a 1000 messages like that turn up in my quest for the right line of text that will enable me to watch flash on my linux box.
Then I watched the first vid........... and thought "Why the f*** did I bother?"
<<<booking himself in for some therapy
Have we just got used to it? Is "Google" also a bloody silly name for an internet search site?
Yahoo always was. I guess we got used to Google, although its a pity they didn't call it Giggle. Imagine: "I don't know, I'll have to Giggle for it...".
Bing (unless followed by Crosby) is just puerile.
Like My Documents and My Little Pony.
Oh, sorry, I suppose the last one wasn't microsoft.
Americans really want to instill the exo-Yank citizenry of Earth with the confidence that the wonders of free wheeling capitalism do not lead to amoral witlessness, guaranteed to eventually consume your own young -- allowing the manipulation of children as part of someone's vision of global strategy hardly aids your cause, guys and gals of the quinquagesimally-starred flag.
C'mon, where's the moral outrage? Do you think they'd dare try this in Europe?
Come on, TheRegister website is funded by advertising.
And why would kids, or anyone else, be brain washed by performing in an ad?
It is watching the ad that is the risk.
I trust the students or school were adequately compensated for their participation.
The school computers looked a little dated - hell, they were still using CRTs! As for the routine - judging by the lyrics on the board, they'd probably had one lesson (if that) to both rehearse and film it. Including the scene in the corridor outside the classroom. By the time you've heard that infuriating song once, you should be intimately familiar with the chorus.
I bet it was a deal to grab themselves some decent hardware (and Win 7) at a discount...
I'm disappointed though that it appears that none of them have had the shrewd economic sense to flog the free T-shirts on E-Bay yet...
(I would try and find a Google-themed song for balance, but YouTube is down for maintenance atm...)
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