{"id":287,"date":"2001-12-21T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2001-12-21T20:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=287"},"modified":"2019-11-26T08:49:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:49:21","slug":"im-shocked-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/21\/im-shocked-really\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m shocked. Really."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7123,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.microsoft.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260306021459\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.microsoft.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:12:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 15:49:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 15:15:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 03:37:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 13:42:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 00:02:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 00:02:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16666,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/business\\\/51559_msftflaw21.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050426165819\\\/http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com:80\\\/business\\\/51559_msftflaw21.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 12:53:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 04:04:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 04:04:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16667,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=%22Windows+NT+5.0+is+an+evolutionary%2C+not+revolutionary%2C+release+of%22&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20020813214541\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.google.com:80\\\/search?hl=en&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 12:53:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 12:53:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Generally, I&#8217;m not much of one to take pleasure in others&#8217; misfortunes. However, I do have to admit that it does my little Mac-lovin&#8217; heart proud to be walking around Seattle, WA &#8212; just down the road from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\" title=\"Microsoft\">pit of despair<\/a> itself &#8212; and to see every newspaper stand in town featuring a headline in large, bold type, across the entire width of the front page proclaiming &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/business\/51559_msftflaw21.shtml\" title=\"Seattle P-I: XP vulnerable to hacker attacks\">XP VULNERABLE TO HACKER ATTACKS<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Windows? XP? With bugs? Naah. You&#8217;re kidding. No way. I never would have guessed.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind, this comes from a company that, when they were advertising the then-upcoming release of Windows 2000, their sales brochure triumphantly proclaimed that Win2k &#8220;includes tens of thousands of bug fixes from Windows NT 4.0!!!&#8221; (Note: For those that may think I&#8217;m mis-remembering or flat-out making this quote up, many more citations can be found with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=%22Windows+NT+5.0+is+an+evolutionary%2C+not+revolutionary%2C+release+of%22\" title=\"Google search for 'Windows NT 5.0 is an evolutionary, not revolutionary, release of'\">quick Google search<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me? Your marketing scheme for your new high-end ultra-reliable ultra-secure server operating system is to freely admit that your previous high-end ultra-reliable ultra-secure server operating system shipped not just with bugs&#8230;not just with a few bugs&#8230;but with <em>tens of thousands<\/em> of bugs?<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excuse me? Your marketing scheme for your new high-end ultra-reliable ultra-secure server operating system is to freely admit that your previous high-end ultra-reliable ultra-secure server operating system shipped not just with bugs?<\/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":[65],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}