{"id":1331,"date":"2008-09-18T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2008-09-18T08:40:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T12:40:34","slug":"microsoft-admits-what-went-wrong-with-vista-and-how-they-fixed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/09\/18\/microsoft-admits-what-went-wrong-with-vista-and-how-they-fixed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Admits What Went Wrong with Vista, and How They Fixed It"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first read this headline<\/a>, I turned and looked to see if any flying pigs were going by my window. But no! It’s real! And, surprisingly, it’s honest<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Executed properly, UAC could have been a savior for people wont to install every application they find. Unfortunately, the UAC prompts quickly become so annoying that most users either disable them (the power-user option) or mindlessly click Allow (the mom option).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which, y’know, is what I’ve been saying all along. But don’t take my word for it – read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first read this headline, I turned and looked to see if any flying pigs were going by my window. But no! It’s real! And, surprisingly, it’s honest. Executed properly, UAC could have been a savior for people wont to install every application they find. Unfortunately, the UAC prompts quickly become so annoying that… Continue reading Microsoft Admits What Went Wrong with Vista, and How They Fixed It<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[62,97,168],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-microsoft","tag-software","tag-vista","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-lt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2951,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2010\/02\/23\/living-with-windows-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":1331,"position":0},"title":"Living with Windows 7","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Keith's review of Windows 7 after living with it for almost a month.","rel":"","context":"In "My Opinion"","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1873,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/03\/17\/i-upgraded-to-vista-but-for-all-the-wrong-reasons\/","url_meta":{"origin":1331,"position":1},"title":"I Upgraded to Vista – But for all the Wrong Reasons","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Even though I swore I wouldn\u2019t upgrade to Vista, just recently I bit the bullet and did it anyway. 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