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nontroppo:
How, but seriously, how on a 1000 earths, does Microsoft come out with the most staggeringly awful, cheesy & cringe-worthy publicity. This must seriously be a clever parody of MS:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E

“Microsoft, huh? So it’s pretty easy to use?”
"And what a happy home we'll have, with every word in rhymeeeeeeeeee......"

Lisa, the annoying little girl, runs Vista on her Macbook Pro (covered in girly stickers so you don't think it's a mac). I normally hate YouTube for the moronic depressingly idiotic comments, but these comments are spot on:

"Be right back...stabbing my eardrums."

"Music is dead."

Yes, it really is real (maybe even fun, if it wasn't for the searing pain in my brain from watching that wretch-inducing advert):

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/

I'm off to get sink into copious glasses of absinthe; surely it's the only way to erase this pain from my mind...

urlwolf:
It's almost as if Microsoft found a way to reverse-engineering 'cool', then proceeded to make the program that would minimize it.

Ehtyar:
Who the hell is Microsoft's agency? Surely it's done in-house, no agency could weather that kind of international embarrassment. Vile!!

Ehtyar.

mouser:
Poor microsoft can't get a break.. Video may be cheesy but the idea is nice.

I don't know the research behind it, and I know this isn't the first such program to do this kind of thing, but it does look like they put a lot of effort into making it easy to use, and i can certainly see this being extremely useful for very low budget amateur song tinkerers.  It seems like it would be especially useful to people making novelty/satire songs for videos on the web.  And it's free.  Very cool.



Songsmith screenshots and free download:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/screenshots.html

vitalyb:
Hey, cheesy or not, it got the tool more publicity than most anything.
Anyone actually tried it?

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