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Microsoft Store, 1 from Brian Bowman on Vimeo.

Microsoft Store, 2 from Brian Bowman on Vimeo.

Microsoft Store, 3 from Brian Bowman on Vimeo.

A film produced for the 360 degree video wall that wraps the interior of the Microsoft Store.

Production: Digital Kitchen
Agency: The Martin Agency
Client: Microsoft

Creative Directors: Brian Bowman, Tom Barham
Executive Creative Director: Matt Mulder
Head of Creative: Mark Bashore
Executive Producer: Abbe Daniel
Creative Leads: Colin Day, Kenji Yamashita
Senior Producers: Paul Schneider, Carrine Fisher
Producer: Murphy Paul
Live Action Director: Brian Bowman
“Entertainment” Director of Photography: Rod Lamborn

* These credits list senior roles only. The entire team was nearly 80 people comprised of dedicated artists, designers, animators and producers; each of whom greatly contributed to the completion and success of this project.

I suggest turning down your volume a bit before watching this!

Source James Senior

A 5 minute version of the video is available after the jump

I just successfully imported my RSS feed from Windows Live Spaces Sunco suggested it was possible and its very easy to do;

1. Save RSS feed from Windows Live Spaces to my desktop


2. Login to Wordpress Admin panel > Tools > Import


3. Import RSS Feed & Done

Microsoft have released another advert from the “Laptop Hunter” series, for some reason it was uploaded to their YouTube & Soapbox pages before Windows.com website as pointed out by Steve Clayton.

The Ad follows Lisa & her son Jackson with a $1500 limit  who need a laptop with speed, loads of hard drive space and a “good gaming computer” as he puts it. As like the previous adverts from the series it briefly mentions Macs, this time Lisa says they are “popular with his age”, “way more money dude” and “these are pretty”.

Like several others have pointed out it is odd that Microsoft has yet to still mention Windows in any of the Ads, but at least they are better then the childish Apple Mac adverts.



On a similar note the “Rookies” series ad’s now have British individuals which is great.

AchieveMax Blog are writing a series of articles about little-know facts of well know leaders, the latest in the series talks about Bill Gates.

1. William Henry Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, USA.


2. His father William was a corporate lawyer, and his mother Mary was a schoolteacher.


3. By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200.


4. Gates scored 1590 on his SAT standardized test. The top score for the test is 1600.


5. Gates told his university teachers he would be a millionaire by age 30. He became a billionaire at age 31.


6. While at Harvard, Gates co-wrote Altair BASIC, which became Microsoft’s (then called Micro-Soft) first product.


7. He met his wife, Melinda French, in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan while she was a worker for the company. They would go on to get married on New Years Day in 1994.


8. In 2002, Bill Gates was considered more idolized than Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung in a poll of teenagers in Hong Kong and China. The survey was conducted by the City University of Hong Kong.


9. In 2005, Gates was honoured with the title Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II of England.


10. As of the March 2007 issue of Forbes magazine, Bill Gates has been listed as Number 1 on “Forbes’ Richest People” list for 13 years in a row. His current net worth is about $56 billion.


11. Gates has recently announced that he will be reducing his involvement at Microsoft and will be devoting more time to his charity work.


12. He is currently having a building named after him at Carnegie Mellon University, called the Gates Building of Computer Science.


13. Gates is the current owner of the Codex Leicester — a 72-page collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific writings. The writings are a mixture of observations on water properties, astronomy, and rocks and fossils. Gates puts the Codex on public display once a year in a different city around the world.


14. Bill Gates earns $250 every SECOND; that’s about $20 million a DAY and $7.8 billion a YEAR!


15. If he drops a thousand-dollar bill, he needn’t even bother to pick it up because in the four seconds it would take him to pick it up, he would’ve already earned it back.

This is absolutely fantastic…“One day, your computer will be a big-ass table.” It is a parody video of the recently announced Surface Computer by Microsoft.

Microsoft today have opened the previously invite-only beta MSN Soapbox to the public. So head over to Soapbox on MSN to check it out.

Worth checking this out!