Microsoft and Fox cooked up a sponsorship of Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show. Seth and Alex of Family Guy fame. Not exactly your "this sitcom rated for corporations" kind of duo right? I guess South Park wasn't available? Well I guess after seeing a rehearsal of the cutting edge comedy they dropped the sponsorship like virus infected Vista PC and ran back to Seattle.

Microsoft isn't cool enough to pull that off anyways. Especially after seeing horrid stuff like the "Windows 7 Party" video. Microsoft couldn't have pulled off sponsoring reruns of "The Golden Girls" (R.I.P. Bea!). Balmer is not "Steve Jobs" cool. Balmer is a goofball who reminds me of a junior high school gym teacher. I'm sure he's a perfectly find person. He just doesn't seem like a leader or a visionsary type of guy to me. Gates didn't seem to be much of a leader to me either, but he sure had the visionary/schemer thing down. The execution of his visions made lots of money, but never inspired the rabbid loyalty or fandom of the users of his technology.