{"id":66,"date":"2014-03-22T13:02:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T20:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2014-03-22T17:10:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T00:10:31","slug":"dear-microsoft-heres-a-great-way-to-annoy-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Dear Microsoft &#8211; here&#8217;s a great way to annoy people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launch a pretty good cloud storage product and let people get used to using it. Run it that way for a couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Then you go and change the product name. Why? To annoy people?<\/p>\n<p>Or here&#8217;s another idea: You&#8217;ve got an operating system that lots of people are using. So here&#8217;s what you do: drop support for it.<\/p>\n<p>Or wait, even better: You&#8217;ve got an operating system that people love and know how to use. So with the next release you change everything so that people&#8217;s productivity goes down and their frustration level goes up. And the PC manufacturers will all hate you worse than before. Yeah, that&#8217;s the way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Or here&#8217;s another idea: buy a smaller company with a great product that lots of people like, then totally crapify the product and then dump it.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s what you can do to really irritate people.<\/p>\n<p>Hello? Is anyone listening?<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch a pretty good cloud storage product and let people get used to using it. Run it that way for a couple of years. Then you go and change the product name. Why? To annoy people? Or here&#8217;s another idea: You&#8217;ve got an operating system that lots of people are using. So here&#8217;s what you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/?p=66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear Microsoft &#8211; here&#8217;s a great way to annoy people<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourcomguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}