<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Official site:<div><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/">http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Oh yeah... Garageband is in serious trouble. :)</div><div><br></div><div>Microsoft's marketing lately has been all over the place, but "creepy" is the one constant they've held on to - this is no weirder then the Bill Gates & Jerry Sienfeld stuff, or the 'Mojave" stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>This is not a joke or parody - it's Microsoft.</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 17, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Lois Drumheller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Disturbing? I guess the feeling I got when watching it was that it could be a joke. If MS came out with a real star, why did they use a marketing approach a la Stepford-high school musical for a marketing campaign? My reaction was, "you've got to be kidding, right?" <br><br>One thing - this ought to appeal writers of a future SNL parody if the product ever launches!<br><br>Lois Drumheller<br><br>On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:25 PM, R_Adams wrote:<br><br> <blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-size: 13pt; ">Somebody please tell me that this is a joke... if not, it is disturbing.</span><br><br><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 237, 1); "><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10141847-62.html?tag=mncol;txt">http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10141847-62.html?tag=mncol;txt</a></span><br><br><br><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 237, 1); "><a href="http://music.metafilter.com/2943/Runnin-With-The-Songsmith">http://music.metafilter.com/2943/Runnin-With-The-Songsmith</a></span><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NPMUG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NPMUG@davesevick.com">NPMUG@davesevick.com</a><br>http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug<br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>NPMUG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NPMUG@davesevick.com">NPMUG@davesevick.com</a><br>http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>