{"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":"<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":[],"categories":[2038],"tags":[65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"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}]}}