Is that Sylar from "Heroes" on the bottom, there?

Just when my expectations for Microsoft's ads couldn't sink any lower...

This is the ad for their latest version of Visual Studio.

Let's just ignore the maudlin, Kinkadean painting style for a moment and focus on trying to figure out the situation. I mean seriously ... what the fuck is supposed to be going on in this ad? Since when do white nerds and Asian girls play basketball? Why are they dressed like Best Buy employees? How is that kid able to dunk? Did yellow-shirted Jeff Daniels launch him into the air?

And I'm still trying to decifer that mystifying tagline: "Good teams score. Fast teams score often and deploy early." ...what?! Has Microsoft hired the fucking Sphnix to write their copy? What the hell is that supposed to mean? Deploy? Is this an ad for the Army? No, because at least military ads make sense.

Oh, and there's aliens. Jesus Christ, Microsoft.

via copyranter