Not TED Talks, TAD Talks...

Is it Will Ferrell? Is it a comedy sketch? No, it's an ad campaign for Microsoft's cloud computing services.

So, I'm watching some very "deep" videos on philosophy on one of your high-end web-only publications.  And a lengthy advert comes up in between.   It is a spoof on motivational speaking, sort of.  Especially on Ted Talks, but this is much more specific to high-end business computing applications.  Not TED Talks, TAD Talks.  This is totally "inside" tech - virtualization vs. cloud computing.  A campaign that Microsoft launched, I guess, against VMware and the like almost a year ago.

Now, TAD is back with a new (brief) advert/video.  This is not TED, it's TAD.  The Video from last year was filled with a lot of tech talk and double talk.  And if you are into networking, storage, enterprise, and IT, it is very funny.  If not, worth a peek just for the groovy music and sideburns, wow....

The story from the ad agency that did the work tells us that the director for Napoleon Dynamite, Jared Hess, directed these mini-movies.

Is this too much "inside baseball," or a laugh riot?  Glad to see creative folks getting engaged for the campaign, in any case!