8/14/2007 - Zune Ballmer

I'm taking another swipe at Microsoft's Steve Ballmer with today's video. Mostly because I've had it up to here with how buggy Microsoft Outlook is and the fact that I have to have it installed and configured on all our work computers. You'd think that a product used by millions of corporate users (and by Microsoft employees themselves, I would hope) would be smarter, easier to configure, and be somewhat stable. But NO! It's a great piece of bloatware that most people are forced to use just because it's a Microsoft product. Did you know that it takes less than 30 seconds to configure a Blackberry to work with an Exchange server while it takes ten times as long to configure Outlook? And that's if nothing goes wrong during the process!

Anyway, you know those Apple iPod ads with the silhouettes rocking to the ubiquitous MP3 player? Well, what would an ad like that look like with a Microsoft Zune instead of the iPod? Something like this: