{"id":1031,"date":"2007-01-16T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T09:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/16\/windows-386-is-on-the-attack\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T09:59:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T09:59:01","slug":"windows-386-is-on-the-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/16\/windows-386-is-on-the-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 386 Is on the Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via a mailing list, I got sent this link to a really mind-boggling <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=4915875929930836239#7m00s\">Microsoft marketing video<\/a> from the 80&#8217;s. It really defies description, but the original poster made a good attempt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> Microsoft sent this tape to retailers to explain the benefits of Windows 386. Boring until the 7 minute mark when the production is taken over by crack-smoking monkeys.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The link goes directly to the seven minute mark, or I&#8217;ll embed the full video below the fold (mostly because I want to see how that works). It&#8217;s nice to see that Microsoft have been PR aces for close to twenty years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<embed style=\"width:400px; height:326px;\" id=\"VideoPlayback\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docId=4915875929930836239&#038;hl=en\" flashvars=\"\"> <\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a mailing list, I got sent this link to a really mind-boggling Microsoft marketing video from the 80&#8217;s. It really defies description, but the original poster made a good attempt: Microsoft sent this tape to retailers to explain the benefits of Windows 386. Boring until the 7 minute mark when the production is taken&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/16\/windows-386-is-on-the-attack\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows 386 Is on the Attack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}