{"id":187,"date":"2008-06-26T23:33:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T06:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nisus.com\/blogs\/?p=187"},"modified":"2020-02-26T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T10:44:08","slug":"what-an-absolute-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/what-an-absolute-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What an absolute mess.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try not to link to things that have been linked everywhere, but this one is just too good to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>In case you have not seen this, the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/\">Seattle PI&#8217;s<\/a> Todd Bishop posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com\/microsoft\/archives\/141821.asp#extended\">full text of an email<\/a> that Bill Gates wrote to Jim Allchin (then VP of the MS Platform Group, which was responsible for XP and Vista, and servers I believe) and others.<\/p>\n<p>Seems Bill had a lot of trouble downloading MS Moviemaker from the Microsoft.com site and let loose on the folks responsible. Man, I would hate to be on the receiving end of this rant.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the money quote: &#8220;What an absolute mess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OS X has a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfixit.com\">issues<\/a>, but after reading this, I am glad I primarily use Macs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try not to link to things that have been linked everywhere, but this one is just too good to pass up. In case you have not seen this, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}