{"id":3600,"date":"2012-08-06T18:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T22:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2012-08-06T18:05:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T22:05:44","slug":"has-microsoft-gone-berserk-with-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3600","title":{"rendered":"Has Microsoft gone berserk with Windows 8?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Microsoft is absolutely, positively determined to make it hard for long-time users of Windows to continue using their computers productively.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, they actually went the extra mile to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9230024\/Microsoft_blocks_Windows_8_Start_button_boot_to_desktop_hacks\">disable hacks<\/a> that allowed Windows 8 to boot directly to the classic desktop and reinstated the Start menu.<\/p>\n<p>What on Earth is going on in Redmond? What are you guys smoking?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3600' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Microsoft is absolutely, positively determined to make it hard for long-time users of Windows to continue using their computers productively. For instance, they actually went the extra mile to disable hacks that allowed Windows 8 to boot directly to the classic desktop and reinstated the Start menu. What on Earth is going <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3600' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-programming","category-11-id","category-36-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}