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September 7, 2019 11:44 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pPMxmdf-CLU/150-microsoft-employees-release-a-new-music-video-microsoft-the-musical
150 Microsoft Employees Release a New Music Video: 'Microsoft: The Musical'
Microsoft's 2019 summer interns have created Microsoft: the Musical, an 8-minute video whose director describes it as "a Tony Awards-style musical theater opening number." Long-time Slashdot reader Your Average Joe shared the Verge's article about the video:150 full-time employees and interns at Microsoft have volunteered their mornings, weekends, and nights to create a Microsoft musical video. The video was shot in various buildings at Microsoft's corporate campus in Redmond, Washington and it features interns and staff members singing and dancing about how it's "all happening here." It starts off with a section about co-founder Bill Gates, before some classic lines like "all around the world our products are well known, except for when we tried to make a phone!" The musical even briefly acknowledges the company missing a beat with Vista, and features former CEO Steve Ballmer's famous "developers, developers, developers" chant. The video's description on YouTube says the music is "coming soon" to Apple's iTunes store as well as Spotify. Directed by one of Microsoft's data science interns, it opens with a narrator remembering that "There once was a lad whose eyesight was bad, but his vision was crystal clear. He looked a line that was clearly defined and declined to align by its rigid design." (Was that a reference to the antitrust case Microsoft settled in 2001?) A later lyric emphasizes that "more than plain old gadgets is the gall that makes the magic..." The narrator then introduces a woman with a book as Bill Gates, explaining to her that "These days, Bill Gates is more of an idea." I think it's appalling that there's absolutely no mention of recently-deceased Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. (Although they found room for a tongue-in-cheek reference to "Clippy's strength of will.") But among other things, this whole video project really begs the question: what else did they leave out about Microsoft?Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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