{"id":196393,"date":"2008-05-01T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/01\/bummer-of-a-birth-mark-hal-microsoft-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T23:24:00","slug":"bummer-of-a-birth-mark-hal-microsoft-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/01\/bummer-of-a-birth-mark-hal-microsoft-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bummer of a Birth Mark, Hal: Microsoft Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bummer for Steve Ballmer not only has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-13860_3-9931343-56.html?tag=nl.e703\">the XP SP3 update been delayed because it breaks an obscure piece of Microsoft software<\/a>, but it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-13860_3-9931528-56.html?tag=nl.e703\">also delayed Vista SP1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080428-dell-lenovo-to-offer-windows-xp-beyond-june-30-cutoff.html\">Dell, HP, and Lenovo will be offering a free &#8220;downgrade&#8221; to XP<\/a> on their systems.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember a product that was more of a disaster than Vista.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, in addition to issues with Norway, it now appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/05\/01\/bsi_ooxml_vote_high_court\/\">high court in the UK has decided to review the British Standard Institution&#8217;s decision to vote for OOXML as an ISO standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bummer for Steve Ballmer not only has the XP SP3 update been delayed because it breaks an obscure piece of Microsoft software, but it also delayed Vista SP1. What&#8217;s more, Dell, HP, and Lenovo will be offering a free &#8220;downgrade&#8221; to XP on their systems. I can&#8217;t remember a product that was more of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,989],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}