{"id":12803,"date":"2010-09-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/09\/21\/fact-check-the-first-major-microsoft-product-launched-via-webcast\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T07:00:00","slug":"fact-check-the-first-major-microsoft-product-launched-via-webcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100921-00\/?p=12803","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: The first major Microsoft product launched via Webcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, while hosting the Webcast launch of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (what a mouthful; no wonder they renamed it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/lync\/default.aspx\"> Lync<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/microsoft\/archives\/161088.asp\"> Stephen Elop claimed that this was the first time Microsoft had launched a major product via Webcast<\/a>.\n Elop&#8217;s crack team of marketing researchers apparently forgot about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/stbnewsbytes\/archive\/2008\/11\/11\/microsoft-to-launch-small-business-server-2008-and-essential-business-server-2008-tomorrow-via-live-webcast.aspx\"> the Webcast launch<\/a>, just three months earlier, of Windows Small Business Server 2008.\n Maybe somebody can find an even earlier Webcast launch of a major Microsoft product.<\/p>\n<p> (Perhaps Elop is claiming that Small Business Server is not a major product, but by that standard, neither is Office Communications Server, which is arguably even more of a niche product than SBS.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, while hosting the Webcast launch of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (what a mouthful; no wonder they renamed it Lync), Stephen Elop claimed that this was the first time Microsoft had launched a major product via Webcast. Elop&#8217;s crack team of marketing researchers apparently forgot about the Webcast launch, just three months earlier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-12803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In 2009, while hosting the Webcast launch of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (what a mouthful; no wonder they renamed it Lync), Stephen Elop claimed that this was the first time Microsoft had launched a major product via Webcast. Elop&#8217;s crack team of marketing researchers apparently forgot about the Webcast launch, just three months earlier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}