{"id":312187,"date":"2019-07-03T08:07:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T06:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=312187"},"modified":"2019-07-03T08:07:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T06:07:31","slug":"microsoft-teases-windows-1-0-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/312187-microsoft-teases-windows-1-0-operating-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft teases Windows 1.0 operating system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has confused its social media followers by releasing teasers for Windows 1.0 &#8211; its first operating system which it launched in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant deleted all its photos from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/windows\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Instagram account<\/strong><\/a> and simply uploaded a clip that shows all its Windows OS logos in reverse order.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has continued in this vein, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BzbY3sfh51_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>publishing a photo<\/strong><\/a> to its social media platforms with Microsoft software from 1985 and captioning it: &#8220;With Excel, Chart, and even Flight Simulator, there\u2019s no telling where Microsoft and the power of Windows will take you this summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Windows&#8217; social media platforms have also been replying to tweets about its new social media campaign with a variety of 80s-related content, including GIFs from 80s television programmes and jargon that was popular during the decade.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, it is uncertain whether this confusing social media campaign will tie in with Microsoft&#8217;s modern software product offerings, or if it is purely a joke designed to increase its social media reach.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/312153-tesla-sets-deliveries-record.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tesla sets deliveries record<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has confused its social media followers by seemingly releasing teasers for Windows 1.0 &#8211; its first operating system which it launched in the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":133764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[123,807,59807],"class_list":["post-312187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-1-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312189,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312187\/revisions\/312189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}