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Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft

Posted by samzenpus on from the was-that-wrong? dept.

theodp writes "GeekWire reports on the techno-dance routine that preceded Microsoft's Windows Azure presentation at the Norwegian Developers Conference this week, which featured a group of women jumping around on stage to a song that included several drug references and the line: 'The words MICRO and SOFT don't apply to my penis.' In a strange effort to be inclusive, a monitor displaying the lyrics added, 'or vagina.' The official Windows Azure YouTube channel has posted an apology for 'a skit that involved inappropriate and offensive elements and vulgar language,' and said it's actively looking into the matter. Hey, could've been worse — at least @ASUS wasn't live-tweeting the event!"

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  1. Jezus Fucking Puritans. by MRe_nl · · Score: 5, Informative

    But that dance routine WAS a disaster.
    Also, that's not Techno.

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  2. Non-Native Insight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, we speak English just fine here [in Norway], even though it's a second language for most. English is after all a close cousin of the Scandinavian languages, Dutch and German. It's closer to "native" than you would think.

    I'm sorry to say we have no excuse for this silly little song, other than that we have a different culture and couldn't care less about offending "sensitive" foreigners :)

    I haven't heard the song itself, but you might want to consider the fact that we also like to intentionally create songs that make a mockery of both our languages. It's called parody. Things are not always what they appear to be ;)

  3. Awkward... by khendron · · Score: 4, Informative

    I haven't seen something like that since the time my company accidentally hired strippers for our Vegas-themed Christmas party.

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  4. XP theme song by Dr.+Manhattan · · Score: 3, Informative
    There was a pretty good parody version of that Windows 95 song by Bob Rivers.

    For Windows XP they picked Madonna's "Ray of Light". I came up with better lyrics than the stock ones.

    Gotta admit, though, after maybe 5 years XP became nearly tolerable. For playing games, at least.

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  5. Re:WTF woudl Apple Do? by jafiwam · · Score: 3, Informative

    Some departments allow police to be uniformed, off duty, and getting paid to do private security in their spare time. Likewise, some municipalities allow events to pay them to have officers loiter there. So it wasn't necessarily tax dollars.