Is this video funny or just sad?

[Matt_H]

Yet another weird one from Microsoft's film department. But the argument they're making is 100% valid: Cloud apps are not safe for business use. If Google's service goes down, my business goes down. That's unacceptable.

The hypocrisy is that Microsoft is encouraging users to move to cloud versions of Office, which would be subject to the same risks and dangers as Google apps. Clearly whoever commissioned this movie isn't communicating properly with their cloud services team.

[Matt_H]

It is no secret that the internal divisions within Microsoft are operated independently... Each product has to compete for internal budgets on their own merits. I seem to remember that The big three are Windows, office and XBox... I have little doubt that the online services division is treated like a red headed stepchild compared to the cash cow that is office!

But it seems to be the Office team that's pushing customers to move to the cloud - Office 365. That's the strange/amusing/scary part - it's the same division that seems to be in conflict with itself.

At any rate, whenever some cloud service goes down and people start complaining, I always want to post this image. With Zynga announcing closure of most of their "apps" (read: imminent bankruptcy) in recent days and people complaining about all the stuff they bought with real money going to digital oblivion, it seems especially appropriate.