{"id":18,"date":"2004-06-06T23:58:53","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T04:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2004-06-06T23:58:53","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T04:58:53","slug":"microsofts-sacred-cash-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/06\/microsofts-sacred-cash-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Sacred Cash Cow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/features\/0422\/040602_news_microsoft.php\">Jeff Reifman writes<\/a> on Microsoft, innovation, and Windows.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nShow of hands: who&#8217;s fed up with Windows?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>I began using Microsoft products 23 years ago, at age 11, and I worked for Microsoft from 1991 to 1999 as a technology manager. For many years, I was a Microsoft loyalist. While aware of Microsoft?s shortcomings, I always believed that the Soft did its best to improve products over time, as it did with Windows XP. But recently, I?ve had a crisis of faith. Perhaps I?ve rebooted Windows one too many times.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His experiences with Windows are perhaps a little on the extreme side. I mean, I certainly have seen all of them, but not all at the same time. However, he does have a well-developed argument. Microsoft ought to pay attention.<\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/features\/0422\/040602_news_microsoft.php\">full article<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Reifman writes on Microsoft, innovation, and Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekstuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FA-i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}