{"id":22673,"date":"2008-04-18T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/04\/18\/special-advance-screening-of-five-seconds-of-true-lies\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T10:00:01","slug":"special-advance-screening-of-five-seconds-of-true-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080418-01\/?p=22673","title":{"rendered":"Special advance screening of five seconds of True Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/04\/19\/2182810.aspx\"> <i>Perhaps the movies made too literal a translation<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/exec\/ssinofsky\/default.mspx\"> Steve Sinofsky<\/a> reminded me that everybody at Microsoft got a special advance screening of the movie <i>True Lies<\/i>, or at least five seconds&#8217; worth.\n The computer that Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s character infiltrates runs the Arabic version of Windows&nbsp;3.1, and the Arabic version of Word&nbsp;6 appeared on screen as well. Steve was in charge of the Office division at the time and managed to get permission to show a clip from a rough cut of the movie at the 1994 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/09\/21\/764634.aspx\"> company meeting<\/a>. He explains, &#8220;I had to run to the airport and pick up a beta tape, show it at the meeting, and then return it via air-courier.&#8221;\n It was like some sort of spy movie.<\/p>\n<p> Oh, wait. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Perhaps the movies made too literal a translation, Steve Sinofsky reminded me that everybody at Microsoft got a special advance screening of the movie True Lies, or at least five seconds&#8217; worth. The computer that Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s character infiltrates runs the Arabic version of Windows&nbsp;3.1, and the Arabic version of Word&nbsp;6 appeared [&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":[103],"class_list":["post-22673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In response to Perhaps the movies made too literal a translation, Steve Sinofsky reminded me that everybody at Microsoft got a special advance screening of the movie True Lies, or at least five seconds&#8217; worth. The computer that Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s character infiltrates runs the Arabic version of Windows&nbsp;3.1, and the Arabic version of Word&nbsp;6 appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22673","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=22673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22673\/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=22673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}