{"id":191018,"date":"2009-10-04T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/04\/lamest-product-launch-ever\/"},"modified":"2009-10-04T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T03:44:00","slug":"lamest-product-launch-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/04\/lamest-product-launch-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamest Product Launch Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows 7<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> House Parties, and their launch video.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/09\/28\/2136255\/Mainstream-Press-Cringes-At-Win7-Launch-Parties?from=rss\">Slashdot<\/a>, &#8220;If Microsoft had been put in charge of marketing sex, the human race would have ended long ago, because no one would be caught dead doing something that uncool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as bad as that <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/your-ears-will-bleed-and-so-will-your.html\">Tommy Seebach video<\/a>, in that I think that the probability of rectal bleeding being induced is much less than his disco cover of Apache, but great googly moogly, this is lame.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1cX4t5-YpHQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1cX4t5-YpHQ&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>On the other hand, Randall Munroe is amusing, as always&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/528\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img59.imageshack.us\/img59\/732\/windows75343682.png\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows 7\u00ae House Parties, and their launch video. As noted by Slashdot, &#8220;If Microsoft had been put in charge of marketing sex, the human race would have ended long ago, because no one would be caught dead doing something that uncool.&#8221; It&#8217;s not as bad as that Tommy Seebach video, in that I think &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1064,989,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-media","category-software","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}