{"id":8671,"date":"2014-01-23T09:28:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T09:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8671"},"modified":"2014-01-23T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T09:30:00","slug":"sure-as-day-follows-night-sure-as-eggs-is-eggs-sure-as-every-even-numbered-windows-release-is-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/sure-as-day-follows-night-sure-as-eggs-is-eggs-sure-as-every-even-numbered-windows-release-is-rubbish\/","title":{"rendered":"“Sure as day follows night, sure as eggs is eggs, sure as every even-numbered Windows release is rubbish”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago I pointed<\/a> out that Windows 7 would be a ‘good’ release of Windows compared to the ‘poor’ versions that the OS seems to alternate through (Windows 98, Me, XP, Vista, 7). It’s a bit like the ‘odd numbered Star Trek movies are rubbish’ rule of thumb.\u00a0What happens when you extend the pattern to the major branding today? XP good, Vista poor, 7 good, 8 poor, 9 good?<\/p>\n

Is it any wonder that Microsoft are as keen as possible to get to the next major version of Windows, even if it just a significant iteration on Windows 8? Half the battle will be won simply by the tech press saying “it’s an odd-numbered release, it’ll be fine.’<\/p>\n

Meanwhile HP’s big selling point for January is that devices ship with Windows 7 ‘back by popular demand<\/a>.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some time ago I pointed out that Windows 7 would be a ‘good’ release of Windows compared to the ‘poor’ versions that the OS seems to alternate through (Windows 98, Me, XP, Vista, 7). It’s a bit like the ‘odd numbered Star Trek movies are rubbish’ rule of thumb.\u00a0What happens when you extend the pattern to the major branding today? XP good, Vista poor, 7 good, 8 poor, 9 good? Is it any wonder that Microsoft are as keen as possible to get to the next major version of Windows, even if it just a significant iteration on Windows 8?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,4,3],"tags":[132,5004,625,5005],"class_list":["post-8671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","tag-microsoft","tag-odd-number-curse","tag-star-trek","tag-windows-9","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2fR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}