{"id":86,"date":"2008-10-28T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddosborne.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/28\/aim-high-microsoft"},"modified":"2008-10-28T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T21:21:00","slug":"aim-high-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/programming\/2008\/10\/28\/aim-high-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Aim High Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toddosborne.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/windows7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/toddosborne.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/windows7.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I remember a long time ago, when I was employed at Microsoft, we used to joke about what the Windows 95 slogan would be. We debated calling it &#8220;The Excess Hard Drive Capacity Reduction Utility&#8221; and several other things before deciding on &#8220;Windows 95, It Sucks Less&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So I was amused to see this headline today on MSNBC&#8217;s web site, referring to Windows 7, the ultimate successor to Windows Vista. It&#8217;s nice to see Microsoft shooting for the moon. It appears that their biggest goal is to make it less annoying to use than Vista. That is a nice goal, don&#8217;t get me wrong, but is that really the greatest thing to look forward too? That it will piss you off a little bit less than Vista? Will you pay over $200 to be annoyed less?<\/p>\n<p>How about this Microsoft. When Windows 7 comes out, you send me a free copy, with a nice little note attached apologizing to me for Vista annoying the shit out of me for 4 years. Really, just make Windows 7 Suck Less and all will be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember a long time ago, when I was employed at Microsoft, we used to joke about what the Windows 95 slogan would be. We debated calling it &#8220;The Excess Hard Drive Capacity Reduction Utility&#8221; and several other things before deciding on &#8220;Windows 95, It Sucks Less&#8221;. So I was amused to see this headline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddosborne.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}