{"id":79,"date":"2006-03-29T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/cf\/?p=79"},"modified":"2006-03-29T02:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T02:34:00","slug":"microsoftian-dilbertianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/microsoftian-dilbertianism.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoftian Dilbertianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why hello there. Sorry I haven&#8217;t been around much lately. It&#8217;s been a slow several months in drewbert&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, who am I kidding, they&#8217;re all slow. Hence the title of my little corner of the the web.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, here&#8217;s a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macgeekery.com\">MacGeekery<\/a> article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macgeekery.com\/column\/eloquent_apathy\/sounding_the_microsoft_death_knell_for_a_change\">state of things at Microsoft<\/a>. It&#8217;s not particularly pretty.<\/p>\n<p>As a Mac fan, I might be cheering at the slower-than-molasses development pace of Windows Vista, but the article makes a good point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apple exists to challenge Microsoft. Microsoft exists to give Apple something to compete against. It&#8217;s a battle of innovation vs. marketing and we&#8217;re slowly winning that battle but if there&#8217;s no one left to fight then I&#8217;d give Apple ten years before it gets as bad as Microsoft is today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why hello there. Sorry I haven&#8217;t been around much lately. It&#8217;s been a slow several months in drewbert&#8217;s life. Hell, who am I kidding, they&#8217;re all slow. Hence the title of my little corner of the the web. Anyhow, here&#8217;s a good MacGeekery article about the state of things at Microsoft. It&#8217;s not particularly pretty. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circumspectfiesta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}