{"id":1127,"date":"2003-04-18T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2003-04-19T06:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/18\/but-what-about-the-little-guy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:51:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:51:23","slug":"but-what-about-the-little-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/18\/but-what-about-the-little-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"But what about the little guy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14807,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/radio.weblogs.com\\\/0001011\\\/2003\\\/04\\\/18.html#a2796&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14808,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/radio.weblogs.com\\\/0103807\\\/2003\\\/04\\\/16.html#a1576&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2003\/04\/18.html#a2796\" title=\"Oh, oh. Scott has YAAMR...\">Robert Scoble<\/a> pointed to <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0103807\/2003\/04\/16.html#a1576\" title=\"I Know How to Fix My System But ...\">Scott Johnson&#8217;s YAAMR post<\/a>. Two hours after Scott made his post, he had an offer in his comments from a tester at Microsoft to pass on information about his crash to the appropriate team at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>First thought: that&#8217;s cool.<\/p>\n<p>Second thought: too bad things like this aren&#8217;t likely to happen for the rest of the poor shmoes battling Windows (like, oh, say&#8230;&#91;ahem&#93;&#8230;<a href=\"\/longletter\/archives\/2003\/04\/07\/i_dont_like_mondays.php\" title=\"I don't like Mondays\">me, for instance<\/a>). Offering high-profile bloggers help after they&#8217;re linked to by another high-profile blogger is certainly a nice thing to do, and nothing in itself to sneeze at, but all of Scott&#8217;s complaints with Windows are perfectly valid, and are the kinds of frustrations that many people have to deal with on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>The fundamental problem itself is still unsolved &#8212; Windows is often a royal pain in the ass to deal with. Most of us have to deal with it on our own, though, and common experiences like Scott&#8217;s are going to keep happening, and Microsoft is going to continue to be perceived by many people as a lumbering, unstoppable behemoth of a company that can&#8217;t actually write decent software, but doesn&#8217;t seem to care because they&#8217;ve got such a lockhold on the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I just don&#8217;t see that happening anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundamental problem itself is still unsolved &mdash; Windows is often a royal pain in the ass to deal with. Most of us have to deal with it on our own, though, and common experiences like Scott&#8217;s are going to keep happening, and Microsoft is going to continue to be perceived by many people as a lumbering, unstoppable behemoth of a company that can&#8217;t actually write decent software, but doesn&#8217;t seem to care because they&#8217;ve got such a lockhold on the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}