Microsoft yanks bizarre ‘training camp’ ads that compare Windows 8 to watermelons [video]

The good news for Microsoft: It seems to realize that Gap-style dance routines are no longer the best way to sell computers. The bad news: Its new marketing direction involves watermelon kung-fu. Neowin reports that Microsoft’s official YouTube page this week posted and then quickly removed three new advertisements for something called “Windows 8 Training Camp” that all failed to actually show Windows 8 at any point during the ads. While the ads are amusing to some extent — the spot where two men play a round of ping-pong with paddles attached to their rear ends while they use their hands to play Mozart’s “Rondo alla Turca” on the piano is particularly clever — it’s debatable whether they’ll give viewers



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