I just thought of how Microsoft has managed to generate good buzz lately, releasing Windows 7 RC 1 free for everyone (for a year) and so on, but then someone at marketing just had to release something like the video above.

The ad features Wes, a “certified financial planner”, telling you how stupid the huge storage capacity on iPods is when it’ll cost you a whopping $30,000 to fill it with music bought from iTunes. So what’s the smarter alternative, oh unbiased financial planner? Well, it’s a Microsoft Zune with the $14.99/mo Zune Pass. $15 is way cheaper than $30,000. Even for Steve Ballmer.

Youtube via cult of mac, wired

This is pretty interesting, Google Japan created the video above to show how clean and simple the browser’s interface is. Google (US) received enough positive feedback for it to decide to run it as TV ads, something they usually don’t do very often – I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Google ad on TV in Sweden and from what I gather there’s not much of it in the states either? Please correct me if I’m wrong though.

Anyway.. Let’s see if this stop-motion clip of wooden Arkanoid-ish play will help them gain in on the other browsers – I’m not sure that I’d install it by just seeing something like this myself though. For those who want more there’s a whole bunch of other Google Chrome-promoting short movies on the Google Chrome Youtube channel.

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