Microsoft's 'silent' web ad

By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes for Hardware 2.0 | May 17, 2011 -- 11:16 GMT (04:16 PDT) | Topic: Microsoft

Microsoft has released a new web ad ... with a twist.

It's a sixteen second ad featuring a woman and her notebook (which looks like a Samsung Series 9). On the screen of the laptop flashes the message 'Time to unfriend your boring old computer. And meet your new PC.' Oh, and the twist - there's no dialog.

Seriously, no dialog at all. Just a weird jingle in the background (like an old silent movie).

Does this make you want to 'unfriend boring old computer'? It made me want to learn to lip read.

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