[RegulatorCountry]

Well, it wasn’t due to a lack of money spent on advertising the thing. The campaign has been widely panned as “creepy.”

http://vodpod.com/watch/3419318-microsoft-kin-launch-ad-campaign

Here are a couple YouTube vids, the first one is especially weird:

http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DCakBlWTwJK0

http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DAHD5m4tiJ4o

[Marie]

OK. That was awkward...

[ottbmare]

Wow. That’s really disturbing. I wonder how much MS paid their ad agency to come up with this? Hope the account manager loses his job.