{"id":1695,"date":"2012-03-01T10:29:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2012-03-01T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T18:49:19","slug":"windows-8-is-microsoft-kidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2012\/03\/01\/windows-8-is-microsoft-kidding\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8: Is Microsoft Kidding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this is apparently the new Windows 8 Metro start screen (for mobile devices, but also for the computer desktop).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1696\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snap-2012-03-01-at-08.12.45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1696\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1696\" title=\"Snap 2012-03-01 at 08.12.45\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snap-2012-03-01-at-08.12.45-400x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snap-2012-03-01-at-08.12.45-400x224.png 400w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Snap-2012-03-01-at-08.12.45.png 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apart from the dull and dated 1990s look and the clashing colors, how is one supposed to read the tiny lettering on the control surfaces?<\/p>\n<p>Did Microsoft outsource their design to India? Are they kidding?\u00a0They want to compete against Apple&#8217;s iOS 5 and Android with <em>this<\/em>??<\/p>\n<p>I almost feel bad for them. I was hoping that Microsoft would come up with something serious, because I believe Apple must have competition to thrive. (Android hardly counts, because Apple users won&#8217;t even consider touching it with a pole).<\/p>\n<p>If this is all Microsoft is still able to cook up, I am afraid they are done.<\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3449\">A Space Poster With Mysterious Origins<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3428\">Did Rocket Pioneer Robert Goddard Ever Work On Mount Wilson?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3208\">Size Comparison<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3178\">Don&#8217;t Believe It When You See It<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3071\">Apple Music Classical<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is apparently the new Windows 8 Metro start screen (for mobile devices, but also for the computer desktop). Apart from the dull and dated 1990s look and the clashing colors, how is one supposed to read the tiny lettering on the control surfaces? Did Microsoft outsource their design to India? Are they kidding?\u00a0They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}