{"id":32454,"date":"2020-11-03T13:38:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T18:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=c68de3fd0361bb982368420533662855"},"modified":"2020-11-03T13:38:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T18:38:45","slug":"windows-7-wont-die-still-second-most-popular-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32454","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 won&#8217;t die, still second most popular operating system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/windows-7-wont-die-still-second-most-popular-operating-system\/\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: ...Because it was the last honest user-focused user-controlled desktop\/workstation OS in the NT family? Vista was an unfinished tech demo of post-XP tech that unfortunately became a product, 8 was an abomination of misguided tablet-y interface experiments, and 10 is both burdened with the UI inconsistency from 8, and a service delivery mechanism more akin to a free razor handle that only works with vendor cartridges than a product. \r\n\r\nThe same reason 10.6\/Snow Leopard was arguably the pinnacle of the Apple\/NeXTStep family - it was a hyper-refined desktop OS.   After about 2010 the tech industry went all-in on coercive, mobile first, continuous ~~breakage~~ delivery SaaS rent-seeking bullshit.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24982546\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32454\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}