{"id":750488,"date":"2013-05-09T11:35:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=499154"},"modified":"2013-05-09T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:35:35","slug":"microsoft-yanks-bizarre-training-camp-ads-that-compare-windows-8-to-watermelons-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750488","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft yanks bizarre \u2018training camp\u2019 ads that compare Windows 8 to watermelons [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/microsoft-windows-8-training-camp-ads\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/windows-8-logo-blue-2012.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows 8 Training Camp Ads\" title=\"Windows 8 Training Camp Ads\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>The good news for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a>: It seems to realize that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/15\/microsofts-surface-marketing-criticism-379675\/\">Gap-style dance routines are no longer the best way to sell computers<\/a>. The bad news: Its new marketing direction involves watermelon kung-fu. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/new-windows-8-tv-ads-are-weird-dont-show-windows-8\"><em>Neowin<\/em> reports<\/a> that Microsoft's official YouTube page this week posted and then quickly removed three new advertisements for something called \"Windows 8 Training Camp\" that all failed to actually show <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a> at any point during the ads. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/microsoft-windows-8-training-camp-ads\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/stnI1V4_j6M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news for Microsoft: It seems to realize that Gap-style dance routines are no longer the best way to sell computers. The bad news: Its new marketing direction involves watermelon kung-fu. Neowin reports that Microsoft&#8217;s official YouTube page this week posted and then quickly removed three new advertisements for something called &#8220;Windows 8 Training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821,12071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39eE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}