{"id":96885,"date":"2017-08-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=96885"},"modified":"2020-08-24T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T20:06:52","slug":"20170824-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20170824-00\/?p=96885","title":{"rendered":"Yes, that was a horrifically awkward video, but it wasn&#8217;t the Windows 95 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you search YouTube for &#8220;Windows 95 launch&#8221;, you&#8217;ll find many copies of this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lAkuJXGldrM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is commonly identified as having been recorded at the Windows 95 launch, but it wasn&#8217;t. The Windows 95 launch featured Jay Leno and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y0CRWAz09r8#t=2m55s\"> the stage looked like this<\/a>. If nothing else, you can see that Bill is wearing a different shirt.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, it&#8217;s a bunch of people dancing like dorks, but it wasn&#8217;t the Windows 95 launch. My guess is that it was some sort of sales event.<\/p>\n<p>One of my friends remarked, &#8220;Sure, the dancing is horrible, but I don&#8217;t think the dabbing generation is in any position to criticize another person&#8217;s dancing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Windows 95 released to manufacturing on August 24, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll return to the Alpha AXP tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some sort of sales event, probably.<\/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-96885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some sort of sales event, probably.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96885","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=96885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96885\/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=96885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}