{"id":472,"date":"2009-03-30T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T11:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2009-03-30T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T11:14:30","slug":"actually_i_just_figured_it_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Actually, I just figured it out&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a couple of different people have made a point and I have finally determined what&#8217;s wrong with that ad:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not selling anything Microsoft.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s selling an HP (and <a href=\"http:\/\/click1.newsletters.siliconvalley.com\/myqmvlqll_qsmynztrtqp_yhmdzpzm.html\">a pretty crap-ass HP<\/a> at that apparently).  No mention of Vista, or WIndows 7, or even XP.  Sure, it runs Windows, but it could just as easily run Linux, and with a little scuffling, maybe even Mac OS X (though I doubt anyone involved with the purchase could hack that).<br \/>\nThing is, though, so will a Mac run Windows, right on the metal &#8211; and I believe a boxed copy of Windows makes more money for Microsoft than the licensing fee for a single OEM copy on a new machine.<br \/>\nI think the point from the last post is the same.  Microsoft doesn&#8217;t have anything that goes along with the current hotness in personal computing &#8211; more to the point, nothing in the current hotness <em>depends<\/em> on Microsoft.  And while their market share still dwarfs that of other OS makers (Apple or otherwise), their <em>mindshare<\/em> is shot to hell.<br \/>\nAnd oh yes, I am well aware that the redhead is actually an actress.  So what?  Did you actually think John Hodgman was a personal computer?  Grow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a couple of different people have made a point and I have finally determined what&#8217;s wrong with that ad: It&#8217;s not selling anything Microsoft. It&#8217;s selling an HP (and a pretty crap-ass HP at that apparently). No mention of Vista, or WIndows 7, or even XP. Sure, it runs Windows, but it could just as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Actually, I just figured it out&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}