{"id":2033,"date":"2008-10-30T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2008-10-30T11:38:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:38:28","slug":"deep-thought-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/2033","title":{"rendered":"Deep Thought Of The Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it&#8230;interesting&#8230;how we&#8217;re suddenly seeing all these stories <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20081030-windows-7-management-features-will-make-it-admins-grin.html\">in the IT press about how <em>Wonderful<\/em> Windows Vista version 2&#8230;er&#8230;Windows version 7&#8230;will be<\/a>.&nbsp; I mean&#8230;since it&#8217;s not going to be released for another year and a half yet at least.&nbsp; They don&#8217;t even have a beta candidate yet, let alone a product that reviewers can try, and already it&#8217;s&#8230;<em>So Wonderful!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vaporware\">Vaporware<\/a>, I believe they call it&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In other cases, vaporware may be announced by companies in order to damage the development or marketability of more real products by competitors, sometimes in combination with a campaign of <a title=\"Fear, uncertainty and doubt\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt\">fear, uncertainty and doubt<\/a>; if customers believe the <a title=\"Technology hype\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Technology_hype\">hype<\/a>, they may put off purchasing the real product to wait for its vaporous rival to mature.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And who knows&#8230;they might even be able to get away with it one more time.&nbsp; Especially if Steve Jobs keeps jerking around Apple third party developers.&nbsp; On the other hand&#8230;&nbsp; DOT-NET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it&#8230;interesting&#8230;how we&#8217;re suddenly seeing all these stories in the IT press about how Wonderful Windows Vista version 2&#8230;er&#8230;Windows version 7&#8230;will be.&nbsp; I mean&#8230;since it&#8217;s not going to be released for another year and a half yet at least.&nbsp; They don&#8217;t even have a beta candidate yet, let alone a product that reviewers can try, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-computer-geeking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","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=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}