{"id":3309,"date":"2005-04-20T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2021-06-06T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T14:28:02","slug":"start-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/04\/20\/start-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Something"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/techbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Microsoft has announced a 15-month plan to advertise Windows XP, in advance of the release of Windows \u201cLonghorn\u201d reportedly at the end of 2006. The announcement coincides with the April 29 release of Apple&#8217;s OS update \u201cTiger\u201d, as if to obscure the fact Mac users will soon be able to take advantage of features Microsoft can only discuss in the abstract for a year. \u2026But I digress. My main reason for mentioning this is to point out how their \u201cStart Something\u201d campaign is already off to a rocky start, in that the first image released to the press was created &#8212; yes, you guessed it &#8212; on a Mac!<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/images\/press\/2005\/WinXPcurious_lg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the link to the image<\/a>. (7.4 MBs)<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/macdailynews.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/5518\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the link to Mac Daily News&#8217;s article<\/a>.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And below is my own bit of evidence.<div class='yrm-content yrm-content-1 yrm-content-hide  ' id='yrm-Ma8pG' data-id='1' data-show-status='false' data-after-action='' style=\"visibility: hidden;height: 0;\">\n\t\t\t<div id='yrm-inner-content-yrm-Ma8pG' class='yrm-inner-content-wrapper yrm-cntent-1'><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/startsomething.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/startsomething-sm.jpg?resize=590%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" style=\"border: 3px solid #000;\"><\/a><br><small>NOTE: \u201cAdobe Photoshop CS Macintosh\u201d<br>(Click on image for a larger view.)<br>The kid looks absolutely <i>thrilled<\/i> by XP, doesn&#8217;t he.<\/small><\/center><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><div class='yrm-btn-wrapper yrm-btn-wrapper-1 yrm-more-button-wrapper  '\n\t\tdata-custom-more-class-name='' data-custom-less-class-name=''><span title='' data-less-title='' data-more-title='' class='yrm-toggle-expand  yrm-toggle-expand-1 ' data-rel='yrm-Ma8pG' data-more='More &gt;&gt;' data-less='&lt;&lt; Less'><span class='yrm-text-wrapper yrm-text-wrapper-custom-dimensions'><span class=\"yrm-button-text-1 yrm-button-text-span\">More >><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Microsoft has announced a 15-month plan to advertise Windows XP, in advance of the release of Windows \u201cLonghorn\u201d reportedly at the end of 2006. The announcement coincides with the April 29 release of Apple&#8217;s OS update \u201cTiger\u201d, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2005\/04\/20\/start-something\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}