Windows Marketplace for Mobile, now in super-cheesy video form

Look, we're certain Microsoft's Windows Marketplace for Mobile will be a rousing success, with loads of developers set to announce apps this week at CTIA and interesting features like full-refund returns and apps certified to run on specific devices. And we'd be totally excited to point out that this teaser video shows off the interface in action, including a charmingly illiterate app review and carrier-specific stores. But honestly, here's a better question: if Microsoft is really serious about how cool is it is to be not-cool-enough, is a totally mediocre teaser with a relentlessly corporate electrorock soundtrack and hyperactive informercial narration really the best way to sell this thing? Discuss. Video after the break.

[Via 1800PocketPC; thanks Saijo]

[superhobo Posted Mar 31st 2009 4:45PM]

This isn't bad at all.

Except for the voice over.

[jgtr Posted Mar 31st 2009 5:05PM]

Ok, so the music was cheesy, and so was the narrator's voice.The actual video was decent but altogether it was pretty cheesy.The 'thousands of apps' part was pretty funny showing Facebook and Associated Press around 20 times each.

Is there going to be some kind of hardware profiler? Because some apps that would work on say a Touch Pro may not work on the limited ram of a mogul or even an HTC Touch.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 5:06PM]

Just because a logo is blue, doesn't mean its a FaceBook logo.

[phobic99 Posted Mar 31st 2009 5:10PM]

Meh the video really wasn't all that bad. I do expect Hamidxa to chime in any minute now to proclaim Windows Mobile superiority over... uhh... everything.

Everything.

[Liquidmark Posted Mar 31st 2009 5:36PM]

Let me guess, this Hamixda is the biggest windows fanboy or something?

[phobic99 Posted Mar 31st 2009 5:56PM]

Well, from reading some of his comments...

http://www.engadget.com/profile/2009480/

...I would say yes.

[simbadogg Posted Mar 31st 2009 11:33PM]

oh jeeze...give the guy a break, two dudes in a row try to call him out on something, he proves them wrong with FACTS in both cases, and that makes him a fanboy. please, if you want fanboy, think ieye, nfinity, the xyzzx dude, and the list goes on...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 7:02PM]

I really dont think Engadget should have used that title. Be more professional guys, come on.

[Pies Posted Mar 31st 2009 7:26PM]

I like it.

[joshuaj Posted Mar 31st 2009 8:44PM]

What's with the microsoft fanboys today? Surely you can all agree the vid is pretty cheesy?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 8:02PM]

Even PC Magazine, and many others are using "me too" as part of the Microsoft title. Deny it, wish it away, but the pathetic fact is MS continually copies Apple.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2344192,00.asp

[Decoy Posted Mar 31st 2009 8:10PM]

DON'T FEED THE TROLL.

[Knight Posted Mar 31st 2009 8:10PM]

Right, and Apple doesn't copy people?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/12/leopard-dock-resembles-suns-project-looking-glass/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/apples-little-problem-with-ripping-off-artists/

Face it, everyone "borrows" ideas once in a while. Microsoft and Apple are no exclusion.

[hexachrome Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:00PM]

WOW, What an original concept.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2009 9:38PM]

Look like a typical Futureshop ad. Blame the pub agency.

[AnastasiosAntonios Toulkeridis Posted Mar 31st 2009 11:50PM]

As a developer i find Apple's store more appealing. Microsoft demands a 99 dollar fee for every submitted application.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2009 3:26AM]

No they don't. And you're not a developer.

[AnastasiosAntonios Toulkeridis Posted Apr 1st 2009 7:12AM]

Mark get your facts right.
(And how could u know what i do for a living? oh wait... u r that ugly oracle from the Matrix)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2009 3:27AM]

Oh wow! A 5-star system!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2009 3:34AM]

If your gonna steal, make sure your version is an improvement over the other guys. Or at least make it your own, thats the trick really. Unfortunately, Microsoft has been very successful in achieving the exact opposite.

[therealmusashi Posted Apr 1st 2009 2:30PM]

Pretty much what we've come to expect from Microsoft. Lame.