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Windows 7 gets the Star Wars treatment

The Death Star was my idea

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Vids The Star Wars fans among you who remember Microsoft's TV punts for Windows 7...

...might enjoy this explanation of just whose idea the Death Star was:

Well, recruiting Darth Vader for a Windows 7 promotion probably would have panned out better than a short dalliance with Family Guy:

MS dropped plans for a TV variety special "devoted to the comedy of Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show" when it decided the content "was not a fit with the Windows brand". ®

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Not a Fit

"was not a fit with the Windows brand" .... yeah, the jokes on these shows work.

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Wow, so impressed

Your comment is by far the most thoughtless and insulting shit I have ever seen, and I live across the pond from the USA.

Hey, it's seriously that thoughtless and insulting, I give you 2 FINGERs!

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However

I actually quite like it.

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