{"id":1576,"date":"2009-10-23T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2009-10-23T14:55:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T18:55:36","slug":"worst-promotion-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/worst-promotion-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst. Promotion. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the culinary crime that Microsoft is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/174214\/microsofts_windows_7_whopper_campaign_the_worst_promotion_ever.html?tk=nl_dnx_t_crawl\" target=\"_blank\">committing in Japan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Microsoft is celebrating the release of Windows 7 in Japan with a Burger King promotion for the Windows 7 Whopper: Seven patties stacked on top of one another in one sandwich. Given that Microsoft has been criticized for releasing top-heavy, bloated operating systems, this could be one of its worst promotional ideas ever.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Windows_7_Whopper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Windows_7_Whopper.jpg\" alt=\"Windows_7_Whopper\" title=\"Windows_7_Whopper\" width=\"180\" height=\"254\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Windows_7_Whopper.jpg 180w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Windows_7_Whopper-106x150.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Windows 7 Whopper weighs in with about 1,000 calories, and likely packs enough cholesterol to require immediate surgery for anyone foolhardy enough to try eating one. It&#8217;s a full five inches thick, and costs the equivalent of $8.50.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the culinary crime that Microsoft is committing in Japan: Microsoft is celebrating the release of Windows 7 in Japan with a Burger King promotion for the Windows 7 Whopper: Seven patties stacked on top of one another in one sandwich. Given that Microsoft has been criticized for releasing top-heavy, bloated operating systems, this could [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[97,156,94,357],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-technology","tag-advertising","tag-fail","tag-microsoft","tag-windows7"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}