Microsoft redesigns the iPod

I heard through the grapevine about a video on YouTube.com that shows how Microsoft would redesign the iPod packaging to fit their own marketed design style.

The video was later confirmed by Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla that it is indeed legitimate.

Microsoft's packaging team created the video to "humorously highlight the challenges we have faced packaging and to educate marketers here about the pitfalls of packaging/branding," Pilla said in an e-mail interview with boingboing.com.

This video is great at showing the differences between design functions for separate business identities.

Enjoy.