Oh, where to begin.

Let’s start with the clock. It looks like there’s an analog and digital clock nice and big there, just in case your system clock just wasn’t good enough. The feature breakdown says “your system’s date and time are instantly displayed” for everyone who has a problem with time delayed clocks here in the 21st century.

And how about that ad? Yeah, it’s bigger than the video.

The video preview, that is, because, ostensibly, the entire point of this heap of failure is let you watch previews of your favorite shows and chat about those previews without ever leaving your desktop. Previews. In that tiny-ass video window.

And Microsoft LIVE and NBC Services are integrated right into the toolbar!? Well, where do I sign up. (I know for a fact that simply combining the incompetence of both NBC and Microsoft doesn’t necessarily have to end in sorrow, but it does take some work to keep from automatically sucking. Maybe NBC Communicator proves my point.)

Amazingly, the joke of a company that built this just closed on over $2M in funding. 

Who’s idea was this? Who funded this? Who approved this? Why does that person continue to have a job?

I’m holding out hope that this is a 30 Rock joke.