{"id":3023,"date":"2011-09-14T20:21:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T20:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2011-09-14T20:21:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T20:21:27","slug":"xp_is_ancient_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3023","title":{"rendered":"XP Is Ancient History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though it seems like I downloaded the preview version of Windows 7 just yesterday, Microsoft is now showing off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2011\/09\/windows-8-experience\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29\">early builds of Windows 8<\/a>. It looks like it will work quite nicely as a tablet OS, but I don&#8217;t see any compelling reason for desktop users to upgrade. I&#8217;m not really interested in 8&#8217;s tile-based design; 7&#8217;s shiny interface serves me quite well. If I want tiles, I&#8217;ll play some mah-jong. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll upgrade eventually, but perhaps I&#8217;ll wait for Windows 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though it seems like I downloaded the preview version of Windows 7 just yesterday, Microsoft is now showing off early builds of Windows 8. It looks like it will work quite nicely as a tablet OS, but I don&#8217;t see any compelling reason for desktop users to upgrade. I&#8217;m not really interested in 8&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3023' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ML","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}