Microsoft the Musical

A group of talented Microsoft interns has created a musical in which they describe what it’s like working for the software giant.

I’m not exactly a fan of musicals, so … whatever. But it’s well made, and the lyrics are fun. One small complaint: Dishing on Vista but not Windows 8 shows me these kids need to learn their Microsoft history a bit better. But it’s all in good fun, and not mocking in nature at all. And again, super talented.

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  • swarnock

    Premium Member
    07 September, 2019 - 10:18 am

    <p>I thought for sure Bill Gates was going to be the barista.</p>

  • MikeGalos

    07 September, 2019 - 10:38 am

    <p>To swarnock over on the Premium side who was sure BillG was going to be the barrista:</p><p>They wanted him to be but they couldn't get a filming time that worked with his schedule according to some insider discussion from some Microsoft people who helped on this. </p><p>Remember this entire production (and you can see how big a production and how large a team it took if you read the credits) had to ship the video during the Summer Intern season which was only 8 weeks from coming up with the idea to writing music, scripting, choreography, rehearsals, editing, and that left a fairly short window for filming and Bill was already committed during that window.</p>

    • safesax2002

      09 September, 2019 - 1:25 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#461722">In reply to MikeGalos:</a></em></blockquote><p>That's a big bummer. That would have been awesome.</p>

  • chesscanoe

    07 September, 2019 - 12:03 pm

    <p>Pretty daring to negatively reference the Microsoft Phone in this very well done propaganda video.</p>

  • saint4eva

    07 September, 2019 - 12:47 pm

    <p>The video is perfectly made. Incredible Microsoft interns. </p>

  • My Hell baby speaking

    07 September, 2019 - 1:37 pm

    <p>Preposterous in every direction whether you insist on egality of outcome or whether you find the dogma of the diversity church to be regressive: The flick is not in accord with Microsoft's own diversity report.</p>

    • warren

      07 September, 2019 - 7:02 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#461826">In reply to My Hell baby speaking:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Got some news for you: </p><p><br></p><p>There's 7 billion people in the world, and <em>no matter who you are or where you're from,</em> most of them don't look like you.</p><p><br></p><p>There's no need to be a fucking weirdo about it. </p>

      • mikes_infl

        09 September, 2019 - 4:01 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#462090">In reply to warren:</a></em></blockquote><p>Yep, you sure told him.</p>

  • PeteB

    07 September, 2019 - 1:49 pm

    <p>Cringe inducing</p>

    • miketheheadski

      08 September, 2019 - 7:08 am

      <blockquote><a href="#461849"><em>In reply to PeteB:</em></a><em> I disagree. Fun and funny. Good stuff.</em></blockquote><p><br></p>

      • wright_is

        Premium Member
        09 September, 2019 - 5:53 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#462231">In reply to miketheheadski:</a></em></blockquote><p>Fun, but I couldn't watch all of it, the music was too "sugar pop" for me. It started to get on my nerves, but it was very well done.</p>

  • jbinaz

    07 September, 2019 - 2:53 pm

    <p>This was just incredibly well done, especially by people whose primary jobs will most likely be doing something other than show business.</p>

  • anderb

    Premium Member
    07 September, 2019 - 5:18 pm

    <p>Well. That explains why the latest cumulative update broke my desktop.</p>

  • jules_wombat

    07 September, 2019 - 6:59 pm

    <p>Well someone enjoying themselves. l guess I am rather old and out of touch, since I rather liked Windows Phone. iOS and Android are regressive in comparison. Let's just hope for Microsoft sake, that there is some of Bill Gates and the WP design team talent amongst this group of interns.</p>

  • Jhambi

    07 September, 2019 - 11:30 pm

    <p>Cool đŸ™‚ This is what will draw the kids to Azure. It worked for the kin :</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfpAkNyHAtQ&quot; target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfpAkNyHAtQ</a></p&gt;

  • Tony Barrett

    08 September, 2019 - 7:16 am

    <p>I cannot put into words how cringe inducingly bad that was. I mean, come on, are we meant to believe a group of interns did that? I can tell you, that has some higher levels of production, MS were involved, and certainly the MS PR office, who would have had to have approved it. Lots of Surface product placement, and it's likely also designed to try and show how cool it is to work for MS these days – lots of young people and all that. </p><p>I don't buy it at all – it's a PR stunt, nothing more.</p>

    • bluvg

      08 September, 2019 - 8:37 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462232">In reply to ghostrider:</a></em></blockquote><p>Look at the credits. Unless you think all the effort put into it was from others inside and outside the company, that's a disservice to the interns….</p>

    • lvthunder

      Premium Member
      09 September, 2019 - 2:19 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462232">In reply to ghostrider:</a></em></blockquote><p>What you don't think the PR department has interns. I totally believe that interns can do this. Especially a company the size of Microsoft. It wouldn't surprise me if all those interns got Surface devices when they started working there. Why would you buy a Dell when your company makes Surface.</p>

  • chrishilton1

    Premium Member
    08 September, 2019 - 8:55 am

    <p>Reminds me of the recent Netflix series Another Life, where a bunch of teenagers are thrust into space to save all of humanity, full of emotions, and absolutely no experience what so ever.</p>

  • angusmatheson

    08 September, 2019 - 1:43 pm

    <p>Delightful video. What talent. And to deify Bill Gates is brilliant. It’s funny Apple is going away from the cult of Jobs, as they are trying to convince the wold they can survive without him.</p><p><br></p><p>However, the intern phenomenon is another way that rich kids are favorited over poor kids in our society. If you want a good job, you have to be able to work for free for a year. No everyone can afford to do that, so the good jobs go to the kids who can.</p>

    • wright_is

      Premium Member
      09 September, 2019 - 5:51 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462363">In reply to Angusmatheson:</a></em></blockquote><p>Internships generally have to meet minimum wage (most pay more) over here and students doing bachelor or masters need to do a few semesters in a company to attain enough credits for their course.</p><p>In fact, some do longer internships to try and build up enough of a cushion to finance their final semesters.</p><p>Some companies do try and get prospective employees to do a day or two of work for free, to see if they fit in, but that really is just a couple of days, I've never heard of it extending to a week or more.</p>

    • lvthunder

      Premium Member
      09 September, 2019 - 2:17 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#462363">In reply to Angusmatheson:</a></em></blockquote><p>Maybe it's different in Civil Engineering then software engineering, but I've never heard of an intern working for free.</p>

      • Tamichan

        Premium Member
        10 September, 2019 - 8:59 am

        <blockquote><a href="#462798"><em>In reply to lvthunder:</em></a></blockquote><p>It definitely depends on your field. In the early to mid 90's the Poli Sci field most of the internships were unpaid. Not something I could do. Toward the end of the 90's there was supposed to be a change in these internships. Now I have a couple of nephews with Poli Sci majors and those same internships are still unpaid.</p><p><br></p><p>IT seems to have always been better when it comes to paying interns a decent wage.</p>

  • bluvg

    08 September, 2019 - 8:34 pm

    <p>According to the credits, the orchestration was composed and conducted by one of the interns, and most of the orchestra (real! There are some slight intonation issues in sections, though nothing unacceptable) was also made of interns. A ton of talent, super talented indeed!</p>

  • Patrick3D

    09 September, 2019 - 9:34 am

    <p>They kinda forgot to mention Paul Allen.</p>

  • mikes_infl

    09 September, 2019 - 4:04 pm

    <p>I think I liked one of the earlier ones better.</p>

  • patmcq

    Premium Member
    09 September, 2019 - 5:07 pm

    <p>Ditto Paul… Kitschy fun!</p>

  • dcdevito

    10 September, 2019 - 7:27 am

    <p>No Longhorn reference, I am disappoint </p>

  • craisin

    10 September, 2019 - 9:38 am

    <p>Really enjoyed that. Well done people at Microsoft!</p>

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