{"id":256,"date":"2006-12-29T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=256"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:35:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:35:29","slug":"microsoft-vista-praise-could-go-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Vista Praise Could Go Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Microsoft<\/span> is  giving away brand-new <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Acer Ferrari<\/span>  laptops as Christmas gifts to some bloggers out there. These people have apparently been praising the upcoming <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Microsoft Vista<\/span> operating system in particularly clever (and objective, I&#8217;m sure) ways, and so now get their rewards.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t had the chance to drool over an <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Acer Ferrari<\/span> yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.acer.com\/acereuro\/page4.do?sp=page3&amp;dau22.oid=18364&amp;UserCtxParam=0&amp;GroupCtxParam=0&amp;dctx1=25&amp;CountryISOCtxParam=US&amp;LanguageISOCtxParam=en&amp;ctx3=-1&amp;amp;ctx4=United+States&amp;crc=2670708976\">have a look<\/a> and tell me that you don&#8217;t want one.<\/p>\n<p>Look, Mr Gates, I know I wrote a little something about the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vista<\/span> EULA some time ago, and I know I&#8217;ve been blogging about Linux every now and then, but is it really too late for atonement? Perhaps I could write some positive words about the XML-based new layout format you hope to backstab, I mean, replace, PDF with, or maybe I could join the MS choir about the benefits of the Office XML format? Or I could just write a blog about the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Microsoft-Novell<\/span> agreement where you hope to short-circuit the open source market?<\/p>\n<p>Call me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Microsoft is giving away brand-new Acer Ferrari laptops as Christmas gifts to some bloggers out there. These people have apparently been praising the upcoming Microsoft Vista operating system in particularly clever (and objective, I&#8217;m sure) ways, and so now get their rewards. If you haven&#8217;t had the chance to drool over an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[184,166,168],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}