Thanks Zoue for this news tip on the now, infamous Vista SP1 [internal] promo video.
Turns out Microsoft"s unfathomably horrendous Vista SP1 promo video that turned up a couple of days ago was just one great big spoof -- a spoof Redmond apparently had no qualms spending a good bit of dough on rather than just re-dubbing some old video from yesteryear. Nevertheless, a company representative said to be "familiar with the reason behind the production" noted that "they thought folks internally would get a kick out of not taking themselves so seriously all the time, but some people thought that"s exactly what they were being -- serious."
He continues on to say that this "little piece of art" had "caused quite a few laughs in Microsoft"s hallways." Um, yeah -- and here in the outside world we aren"t laughing any quieter just knowing this masterpiece of comedy was indeed intended as a joke.