{"id":3544,"date":"2009-10-26T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T23:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2009-10-26T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T23:45:42","slug":"microsoft-canceled-windows-7-family-guy-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/10\/26\/microsoft-canceled-windows-7-family-guy-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Canceled Windows 7 Family Guy Special."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10383502-56.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNET News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20091026\/microsoft-bails-out-of-family-guy-windows-7-episode-after-actually-watching-family-guy\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Things Digital<\/a> and many others; Microsoft has cancelled the Windows 7 Family Guy Special (Infomercial).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In a statement, a Microsoft representative said the show&#8211;a variety show to be done by Alex Borstein and Seth MacFarlane&#8211;was not &#8220;a fit with the Windows brand.&#8221; Microsoft had hoped to use the show to tout its just-released Windows 7 operating system.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, what is Microsoft worrying about?<\/p>\n<p>So far, the Windows 7 Family Guy snipets have been universally deemed as unfunny by viewers. All the available clips are nothing but re-dubbed Family Guy scenes with horrible lip-sync. There are nothing funny in the dialogues.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Microsoft just found out that Seth McFarlane is a hardcore Mac user.<\/p>\n<p>Actually Microsoft said that they finally saw an episode of Family Guy and were horrified with the off-the-wall jokes in the series. Seriously, no one in Microsoft ever heard or watched Family Guy? I don&#8217;t believe that. Seth took no prisoners. I wonder if he get to keep the money he took.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNET News, All Things Digital and many others; Microsoft has cancelled the Windows 7 Family Guy Special (Infomercial). In a statement, a Microsoft representative said the show&#8211;a variety show to be done by Alex Borstein and Seth MacFarlane&#8211;was not &#8220;a fit with the Windows brand.&#8221; Microsoft had hoped to use the show to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2009\/10\/26\/microsoft-canceled-windows-7-family-guy-special\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Canceled Windows 7 Family Guy Special.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[288,403,404,723,1030,1087,1455,2009,934,2094,2511,2669,936,3048,3131,3216],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-alex-borstein","tag-applications","tag-apps","tag-comedy","tag-entertainment","tag-family-guy","tag-humor","tag-media","tag-microsoft","tag-movies","tag-resources","tag-seth-mcfarlane","tag-tech","tag-tv","tag-vista","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-Va","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}