The creators and star of the hilarious BBC series “The Office” made two humorous training videos for Microsoft in 2003, under the condition that they would never be made public. But they have been leaked to the Internet, and already Microsoft got YouTube.com to take them down. Lucky for us, GoogleVideo still has them up.

  • Why, besides sheer hilarity, are we posting this? Well, just when you thought Microsoft was through taking itself so seriously … BAM! It sends out the legal attack dogs.
  • Times (UK) article on the controversy
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