{"id":1241,"date":"2008-03-23T18:50:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1241"},"modified":"2008-03-23T18:51:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T23:51:31","slug":"no-take-it-around-behind-the-barn-and-shoot-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1241","title":{"rendered":"No.  Take It Around Behind The Barn And Shoot It&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CIO Magazine asks, <a href=\"http:\/\/advice.cio.com\/laurianne_mclaughlin\/should_microsoft_throw_away_vista\">Should Microsoft Throw Away Vista<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Throw Vista away. That&#8217;s what my colleagues at our fellow IDG publication InfoWorld <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/08\/03\/17\/12NF-save-xp-100k_1.html\">have now argued<\/a> that Microsoft should do. Give it a dignified resting place, as a stepping-stone OS, and come up with a replacement that&#8217;s more sensible for enterprise IT.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Why?&nbsp; Seriously.&nbsp; Why should Bill Gates do any such thing when he owns 90 percent of installed PCs and Office Software Suites?&nbsp; You gonna go somewhere else pal?&nbsp; Where?&nbsp; If your data is in one of Bill&#8217;s software products, then Bill owns your data too buddy.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t just ask Bill to please be nice to you.&nbsp; He won&#8217;t.&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t care.&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t give a shit about you.&nbsp; You need to take your destiney into your own hands.&nbsp; Or you will never own it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIO Magazine asks, Should Microsoft Throw Away Vista? Throw Vista away. That&#8217;s what my colleagues at our fellow IDG publication InfoWorld have now argued that Microsoft should do. Give it a dignified resting place, as a stepping-stone OS, and come up with a replacement that&#8217;s more sensible for enterprise IT. Why?&nbsp; Seriously.&nbsp; Why should Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumping-my-pulpit","category-uncategorized","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}