Summary: Microsoft continues exploiting children to market products that have nothing to do with children

MICROSOFT was slammed last month for using innocent children to sell its products. In separate posts, we have also shown how Microsoft uses sentimental blackmail to improve sales. Examples include:

• Microsoft's Sentimental Blackmail is Back in the Mail
• Microsoft Uses Sentimental Blackmail, Kickbacks to Promote IE8, Shoves it Down People's Throats Regardless
• Sentimental Blackmail for OOXML, Thy Name is Bill Gates
• Boosting Windows Vista Sales Using AIDS

No doubt we will be writing again about Microsoft's obsession with using kids to advance its products, even kids that do not understand what they do, let alone what company with a criminal past they are helping. In the following new case, Microsoft uses kids to advance a Google challenger that lies to its users. TechCrunch publishes: "Microsoft Tortures Little Kids With Bing Jingle"

As you can see in the video below, Microsoft has forced a bunch of middle schoolers in Pennsylvania to learn and perform Mann’s Bing song. The horror. It’s hard to watch this without immediately thinking about parents who accept money to allow their child to be sponsored. Is this the future of branding?

Could it be any worse than the "Family Guy" advert-as-a-show -- an arrangement which was fortunately called off?

One person thinks that Microsoft's latest video may be "the strangest Microsoft video ever."

Microsoft spent very little money and received much publicity. However, some new footage of the Bing jingle being performed has struck me in the eyes and buried itself in my worried parts.

You see, it features many, many children from the Keith Valley Middle School in the non-Amish region of Pennsylvania singing the jingle, dancing to the jingle and wearing uniform T-shirts imported from the Left Coast.

Later on we will show how Microsoft spends $300,000,000 promoting Vista 7, even using bribery. ⬆