{"id":74,"date":"2001-02-14T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-15T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=74"},"modified":"2019-11-21T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:48:47","slug":"a-little-too-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/02\/14\/a-little-too-obvious\/","title":{"rendered":"A little too obvious?"},"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;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Okay, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\" title=\"Microsoft\">Micro$oft<\/a> unveiled the beta of the next iteration of Windows &#8212; Windows XP &#8212; at an event yesterday. Funny thing is, this time Micro$oft&#8217;s brainwashing wasn&#8217;t enough to hide the fact even from their own minions that, as usual, they seem to be following in the footsteps of Apple.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This is so sad. They&#8217;re just lamely trying to copy Steve Jobs&#8217; Apple presentation &#8212; right down to the guy having a black shirt and black pants&#8230;. It&#8217;s almost like Windows ME 2. Or as Apple might call it, Windows Me Too.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; anonymous Windows tester, while watching the webcast of the unveiling of Windows XP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so sad. They&#8217;re just lamely trying to copy Steve Jobs&#8217; Apple presentation &#8212; right down to the guy having a black shirt and black pants&#8230;. It&#8217;s almost like Windows ME 2. Or as Apple might call it, Windows Me Too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[114,16,117],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-microsoft","tag-quotes","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}