{"id":930,"date":"2009-09-25T14:47:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2009-09-25T14:47:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:47:59","slug":"what-in-dear-god-is-microsoft-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"What In Dear God Is Microsoft Thinking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft have surpassed themselves, as only Microsoft can. I never thought my nomination of their <a title=\"Microsoft Songsmith\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/2009\/01\/16\/my-nomination-for-worst-video-of-2009\/\">Songsmith<\/a> advert for worst video of 2009 could be beaten&#8230; unbelievably, they&#8217;ve proven me wrong!<\/p>\n<p>The Windows 7 Launch House Party? At first I thought this was a parody, but no, it&#8217;s actually real! Just make sure your diary is full between 22-27 October, otherwise you could end up at a house party, with your IT department!?!?<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ]<\/p>\n<p>To see for yourself, check out the <a title=\"Windows 7 House Party\" href=\"http:\/\/www.houseparty.com\/offers\/windows7usa\/hosthelpvideos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: For a brilliant response by Charlie Brooker of the Guardian and to find out why the Microsoft video is the most shitasmic cultural artefact in history&#8230; plus to find out what the hell a shitasmisa cultural artefact is anyway, <a title=\" Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/sep\/28\/charlie-brooker-microsoft-mac-windows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft have surpassed themselves, as only Microsoft can. I never thought my nomination of their Songsmith advert for worst video of 2009 could be beaten&#8230; unbelievably, they&#8217;ve proven me wrong! The Windows 7 Launch House Party? At first I thought this was a parody, but no, it&#8217;s actually real! Just make sure your diary is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,36],"tags":[338,130,66,340,342,31],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brands-marketing","category-fun","tag-house-party","tag-microsoft","tag-online-video","tag-shitasmisa-cultural-artefact","tag-windows-7","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}