http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Stewie: I just put the new version of Open SuSe on it.
Briah: Oh... you customizing your desktop with widgets on KDE 4.0?
Brian: Using Cedega and Open Office to use your windows applications?
Stewie: Actually, I'm using GIMP to make a giant burning windows 7 Logo.




]]>Oct 26th 2009 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Michael: I am making a completely irrelevant comment in reponse to the first comment because I have an unrealistic sense of worth and think everybody wants to see what I have to write.
Brian: Douche!]]>Oct 26th 2009 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
of course, this being Family Guy, the references are probably not exactly glowing reviews.]]>Oct 26th 2009 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
Hmm, no news here... except that its not consumers, Apple, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Caldera, Novell, Symantec, Sybase, Burst, RealNetworks, Netscape, Opera, TomTom, Cygnus, Free Open Source Software?]]>Oct 26th 2009 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 29th 2009 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
And to be honest, if MS was sponsoring this show to the extent that I understand, the FG people should have been working more closely with them to ensure the final product wasn't something that MS had to ultimately walk away from. ]]>Oct 26th 2009 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
Why would the artists and writers alter their program to suit a sponsor? If Microsoft thought that they clearly aren't tuned into popular culture]]>Oct 26th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
Yes, MS should have known a bit more of the shtick that Family Guy is known for, but the FG people should know that they were in fact producing an episode that was a sudo-infomercial, and thus cant just fly off like it's just any other stock FG episode.

If the FG writers wanted to just do their own thing, then they should have never agreed to a episode partnership.

Whomever was the guy from Microsoft that was the head man for this, should have been keeping the company more informed about how this thing was turning out. You cant just have an episode written in the dark just to have the suits walk out on the screening.]]>Oct 26th 2009 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
Simple logic. If you are going to sponsor a cult TV show with a very well established type of adult humour, at least watch the damn thing BEFORE you start bragging about it.

The whole idea of sponsoring a show is to get your company name linked with the show. Not to make an advert with the show's characters.

If Microsoft's advertising team is so uninformed that they wanted 7 to be associated with what some see as childish offensive comedy, that is their look out.
I'm guessing that they got as list of ratings for the time slot, and picked the one they thought might be willing to accept sponsorship for show placement within the advert.

Personally, I can see the possibilities for lots of Windows 7 gags mixed in with the usual plot.

Perhaps they will do an OS show where Brian becomes an Apple Genius, and uncovers child labour workshops in the basement of each store, while Cragmire gets an incredibly aggressive virus from a porn site, and gets pulled into a porn Tron world. And Meg becomes a kernel hacker to make friends. ]]>Oct 26th 2009 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
Hate speech is not covered, dingus.]]>Oct 27th 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Ouch, that one must have stung the Mac crowd hard!]]>Oct 26th 2009 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 27th 2009 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
You get to share a giant birthday cookie, courtesy of the mall.]]>Oct 28th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
Dumb marketing is dumb.]]>Oct 26th 2009 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
I ain't no fanboy - you have no idea how hard it was to make an obvious joke without sounding like a fanboy, but as you and I know, it's effing impossible...]]>Oct 26th 2009 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
Also, I predict, because of the same idiots, this comment will be invisible in a few hours.]]>Oct 26th 2009 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
"Paparazzis Thanks Twitter For Making Their Jobs Easier"]]>Oct 27th 2009 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 27th 2009 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 28th 2009 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 27th 2009 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/Oct 26th 2009 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-ditches-family-guy-special-for-being-family-guy/
For not being funny? For tirelessly using out-of-left field humor with no relevance to plot? For devolving characters to caricatures? Hear, hear, Microsoft.]]>Oct 26th 2009 6:54PM