{"id":3171,"date":"2008-08-19T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2008-08-19T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:30:12","slug":"a-third-of-new-pcs-being-downgraded-to-xp-says-metrics-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/08\/a-third-of-new-pcs-being-downgraded-to-xp-says-metrics-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"A third of new PCs being downgraded to XP, says metrics researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"images.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"97\" height=\"97\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The state of the WIndows PC platform is just plain sicker and sadder today than ever (and that&#8217;s saying quite a lot).<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s solution? Take a couple of the remaining Golden Girls, a few ditzy secretaries, some vacant soccer moms, and other assorted oblivious dopes who have never seen Windows Vista&#8217;s upside-down and backwards Mac OS X UI graphics rip-offs, show them a demo while calling it &#8220;Mojave,&#8221; then tell them it&#8217;s really &#8220;Vista,&#8221; record their breathless\/witless gasps of surprise, and then play it back for everyone else who already know that Vista is the same old crappy Windows with bolted-on, system-taxing, upside-down and backwards Mac OS X UI graphics rip-offs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See, we told you Vista is cool!&#8221; So, how&#8217;s that working for ya, Balmy?<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is responsible for The Dark Ages of Personal Computing. Thankfully, the renaissance is finally upon us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9112885\" >A third of new PCs being downgraded to XP, says metrics researcher<\/a>: \u201cA third of new PCs being downgraded to XP, says metrics researcher<br \/>\nVista may be what Microsoft sells, but XP remains popular\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of the WIndows PC platform is just plain sicker and sadder today than ever (and that&#8217;s saying quite a lot). Microsoft&#8217;s solution? Take a couple of the remaining Golden Girls, a few ditzy secretaries, some vacant soccer moms, and other assorted oblivious dopes who have never seen Windows Vista&#8217;s upside-down and backwards Mac &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/08\/a-third-of-new-pcs-being-downgraded-to-xp-says-metrics-researcher\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A third of new PCs being downgraded to XP, says metrics researcher<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-P9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3172,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}