{"id":1667,"date":"2009-09-28T22:33:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T21:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2009-09-28T22:33:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T21:33:45","slug":"the-windows-7-party-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/the-windows-7-party-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windows 7 Party Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will have seen Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ\">achingly cringeworthy video<\/a> encouraging people to hold Windows 7 launch parties. It really is jaw-droppingly awful. But wait! Don&#8217;t go and watch that. I haz written a Windows 7 launch party song especially for you. 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