Microsoft has apparently released some advertising for their new Office flagship collection (Office 2010). The movie can be seen on YouTube here.
I find it upsetting that they can spend lavishly promoting nothing — note that there are zero product shots in this ad. It is pure blockbuster hype.
Arial!? Don’t get me started on Arial. Perhaps MSFT could have spent a little money improving the Windows font engines and licensing some non-horrid fonts from a reasonable foundry. I still think Arial is a poorman’s Helvetica and will never be a substitute.
Checkout Helvetica vs. Arial if you haven’t already seen this.
Surprisingly, there are still quite a few pages on this topic indexed at Google.