News flash: Microsoft discovers sense of humor

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According to iPod Observer, Microsoft has ‘fessed up and admitted its marketing staff was behind the short film that reimagined the pristine iPod box as if it were created in Redmond—where, of course, it becomes a cluttered mess. (An AdFreak reader, commenting to our earlier post about the video showing up on iFilm, had also said that it was, indeed, created by a rogue band of Microsofties.) The most interesting thing about this may be that Microsoft seems OK with people getting a laugh out of the company’s design deficiencies.

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