you want me to do WHAT?

I don't like Microsoft.

I won't go so far as to call it hatred, but they annoy the mess out of me with their marketing campaigns and just flat-out weird ideas that are *this* close to being cool, but always miss the mark.

The latest WTH-are-they-thinking idea is to hold "House Parties" to pimp the launch of Windows 7.  They have a website to give you tips, another site from which to download party favors, and a video overview:

Seriously?  Ugh.  First of all, they are totally TRYING TOO HARD.  I'm not sure if they're producing these videos in-house or are actually paying a firm to come up with this crap, but in its attempt to look under-produced it's only coming off as totally hokey and over-produced. 

I mean, would YOU honestly throw a party to show off a new operating system, print out signs, and "Download and print this fun activity" (true/false quizzes that promise to) "keep the party going!"

I'm pretty hardcore geeky and even this is out of my realm of cool.  Or fun.  Or even socially acceptable.

Microsoft, you have the lion's share of the market.  Stop embarrassing yourself.

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[Chuck]

You'd do it for Apple and you know it. :-)