2008年6月22日星期日

微软视频: 你的数字生活方式("Girl From Mars")

This video has been shown at internal Microsoft events a few times. It always draws a great response from the audience, followed by internal email aliases flooded for days with requests for a link or high bandwidth version. I finally found it on MSN Soapbox and YouTube (thanks to whoever posted it there). It shows a whole bunch of Microsoft consumer technologies working together in this average guy's "digital lifestyle". Most Microsoft products featured in this video, including Windows Mobile, Zune, XBOX 360, and Windows Media Center fall under the Entertainment & Devices (E&D) division, arguably the best division to work at within Microsoft (biased personal opinion).

该视频最初只是在微软内部大事记中出现过几次, 并在观众中取得不俗反响, 之后内部邮件中持续数日要求获得该视频的链接或高带宽版本. 最终我在MSN Soapbox 和 YouTube上发现了它 (感谢那个发布它的人). 该视频展示了在微软消费媒体产品共同协作下,一个寻常人"的数字生活方式". 包括Windows Mobile, Zune, XBOX 360等均在该视频中出现, 充分展示了Microsoft Windows Media Center 这一"媒体娱乐设备最佳解决方案". (基于个人观点)

The soundtrack in this video is very catchy too, and I've seen just as many requests from people asking about the song and band. The song is called "Girl From Mars", and it is covered by a band named Magneta Lane. I'm not sure but they might have done some private/promotional work for Microsoft because I can't find the track associated with Magneta Lane anywhere else. The original song was released in 1995 by a band named Ash from their album named "1977". Watch the original Ash version on YouTube or check out the Wikipedia entry if you like the song.

该视频中的原声带非常脍炙人口, 之前已经有许多人询问关于这支音乐的名字以及乐队. 这首歌叫 "Girl From Mars", 由一支名叫Magneta Lane.的乐队所录制, 他们很有可能从事专属微软的推广工作, 因为除此之外, 我没有找到任何和Magneta Lane 有关的音乐, 当然我并不确定. 这首歌的原版由一支叫做Ash的乐队在1995年发布在一张名为"1977"的专辑中. 如果喜欢这首歌的话, 不妨去 YouTube 或者Wikipedia entry, 去查看它的Ash版本.


(update) p.s. I don't know where the green jacket is from. Banana Republic maybe?

-Mel Sampat

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