{"id":397,"date":"2008-10-28T07:01:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2019-08-13T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:25:06","slug":"dell-on-ungreased-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/dell-on-ungreased-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell on ungreased wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when you think businesses had no clue left to lose….<\/p>\n

Dell is now selling new computers with Windows XP– _if_ you pay a $99 *downgrade* fee.<\/p>\n

Hey, Microsoft– How can it be a *downgrade* if it costs *more*? If people are _paying_ this fee, doesn’t that mean it’s actually an *upgrade*– that Vista isn’t as good as XP<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Hey, Dell– If “downgrades” are $99, why can’t I buy a system, *upgrade* from Vista to Linux, and get $99 *back*?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just when you think businesses had no clue left to lose…. Dell is now selling new computers with Windows XP– _if_ you pay a $99 *downgrade* fee. Hey, Microsoft– How can it be a *downgrade* if it costs *more*? If people are _paying_ this fee, doesn’t that mean it’s actually an *upgrade*– that Vista isn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}