{"id":1309,"date":"2005-04-26T08:26:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T08:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2005-04-26T08:26:26","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T08:26:26","slug":"microsofts_next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Next Windows, Longhorn&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Bill Gates <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Gates+offers+Longhorn+appetizer\/2100-1016_3-5683686.html?tag=nl\">quote<\/a>: &#8220;Gates did promise that Microsoft&#8217;s biggest-ever marketing campaign would accompany Longhorn&#8217;s release. Microsoft recently announced plans for a precursor to that campaign, a &#8220;Start Something&#8221; blitz that will tout the abilities of current versions of Windows.&#8221; reminds me of SUN Microsystem Founder Bill Joy&#8217;s great quote: &#8220;The quality of a company&#8217;s software has an inverse relationship to the amount of money spent on marketing&#8221;.   I&#8217;ve found this to be uniformly true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Bill Gates quote: &#8220;Gates did promise that Microsoft&#8217;s biggest-ever marketing campaign would accompany Longhorn&#8217;s release. Microsoft recently announced plans for a precursor to that campaign, a &#8220;Start Something&#8221; blitz that will tout the abilities of current versions of Windows.&#8221; reminds me of SUN Microsystem Founder Bill Joy&#8217;s great quote: &#8220;The quality of a company&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}