More Windows XP Silliness

We are not sure why but yesterday we received this press release about a Windows XP kickoff on Sunday entitled "Bill Gates Gets Rhythm" featuring yet another Microsoftian "innovation":

    "When Bill Gates takes the stage Sunday evening, he'll add a new dimension to his Windows XP presentation -- music and DVD video.

    Direct from Down Under, balladeers Bonacci and Wood will entertain the audience with their refreshing songs and style.

    The warm-up concert will also be filmed. While Gates explains the changes in today's marketplace and the wonders of XP, Australia's Opulent Multimedia Group will be busy producing not one, but two, professional-quality DVD-R discs of the concert. At the end of his speech, one of the two DVDs will be played for the audience as proof of Windows XP's strong multimedia content creation capabilities.

    The DVD Production Team:

      * Pinnacle Systems' powerful new full-featured DC2000 real-time video processing, editing and MPEG2 encoding system
      * Panasonic's DVD-RAM/R drive will be used to write to two DVD Forum-approved DVD-R discs that will play on virtually any DVD player
      * A talented, creative Australian team headed by Anthony Chidiac

    Want to hear how it was done? Attend the RDVDC Press Conference Monday -- the 12th at 2 p.m. in the LV Hilton, Ballroom D

    Want Your Own Copy of the Concert? Copies -- produced on play-anywhere DVD-R -- will be given to members of the press at the RDVDC press conference and at the RDVD Pavilion Booth #L5555.

    When it comes to Windows XP...Bill's got rhythmn [sic] !!!"

Authoring DVD's, of course, has been available on the Power Mac for most of this year with Apple's SuperDrive and outstanding free iDVD software using the "tired, old" classic Mac OS--DVD Production Team not included and not needed! [Yes, it's a legitimate press release from a well-known communications outfit that we chose not to embarrass.]

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