Still better than the time Sun ran a bunch of employees through the Army assault course and broke two (three?) legs, several arms and a number of tissue injuries…
There are presentations, and then there are presentations. It’s hard to say what the team over at Microsoft Norway was thinking when they came up with the song and dance routine they debuted at the Norwegian Developers Conference earlier this week, but it’s a far cry from videos like CEO Steve Ballmer’s “Developers, developers, developers” routine.
Intended to get the crowd psyched up for the company’s presentation on Windows Azure – Microsoft’s cloud computing platform – the dance presentation and “Azure girls” start off with a fairly silly and (typically) lame routine that looks like the cross between LMFAO and Dance Moms.
And then the lyrics come in.
“I’m a software developer. I’m developin’, and I’m here to party. I’m a software developer. I’m developin’ for the rest of my life,” screams the GLaDOS-like chorus.
That’s not so bad, right? Dumb, but hardly offensive. But that’s just the chorus; verse two’s next.
“I’ve got the skills to impress, I’m a computer genius,” it starts off. “The words ‘Micro’ and ‘Soft’ don’t apply to my penis.”
To Microsoft’s credit, the presentation tries to promote gender inclusivity by throwing the phrase “(or vagina)” underneath the aforementioned lyrics when they pop up on a big TV monitor in front of the dance show. That’s really the only saving grace that can come from this one, a fact Microsoft might slowly be starting to realize based on the comments that the official “windowsazure” YouTube account is now leaving on various videos of the NDC dance.
HT @lloydwatkin
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