{"id":367,"date":"2005-08-25T08:37:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T12:37:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:45","slug":"the_windows_roller_coaster_10_years_of_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/08\/25\/the_windows_roller_coaster_10_years_of_h\/","title":{"rendered":"The Windows Roller Coaster: 10 Years of Highs and Lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1895,1852012,00.asp\">eWeek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Step aside, Six Flags. Move over, Magic Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>For sheer, gut-wrenching highs and lows, even the world&#8217;s tallest, fastest, most technologically advanced fly-by-wire roller coaster can&#8217;t compare with the last 10 years of highs and lows at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re a shareholder, an employee, a customer or a competitor, you&#8217;ve experienced the thrill of victory and the agony of BSODs.<\/p>\n<p>In the year and a half leading up to the debut of Windows 95, I wrote more than 100,000 words about the upcoming operating system, mostly for the late, lamented PC Computing.<\/p>\n<p>I was at the launch party on Aug. 24, 1995, and I&#8217;ve been covering succeeding versions of Windows (and the controversies surrounding them) continuously since then. It&#8217;s been quite a ride. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From eWeek: Step aside, Six Flags. Move over, Magic Mountain. For sheer, gut-wrenching highs and lows, even the world&#8217;s tallest, fastest, most technologically advanced fly-by-wire roller coaster can&#8217;t compare with the last 10 years of highs and lows at Microsoft. Whether you&#8217;re a shareholder, an employee, a customer or a competitor, you&#8217;ve experienced the thrill &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}