{"id":609,"date":"2009-01-19T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T10:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2009-01-20T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T21:21:15","slug":"why-do-you-use-microsoft-is-it-for-its-great-viruses-or-its-monopolistic-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/why-do-you-use-microsoft-is-it-for-its-great-viruses-or-its-monopolistic-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do you use Microsoft? Is it for its great viruses or its monopolistic product?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It continues to amaze me that people continue to rely on Microsoft for such a large and important part of their work and leisure experience.  At a time when people and businesses want to save money they should be installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distrowatch.com\">Linux software<\/a> which is free, stable and secure.<\/p>\n<p>Today the tech headlines noted that a Windows worm, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7832652.stm\">described here<\/a>, is destroying PCs at a rapid rate (if you have Windoze, load the patch and use anti-virus) and Microsucks is being  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7834792.stm\">investigated again for monopolising the software market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(More on that worm here: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7832652.stm\">Clock ticking on worm attack code<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It continues to amaze me that people continue to rely on Microsoft for such a large and important part of their work and leisure experience. At a time when people and businesses want to save money they should be installing Linux software which is free, stable and secure. Today the tech headlines noted that a &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/why-do-you-use-microsoft-is-it-for-its-great-viruses-or-its-monopolistic-product\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why do you use Microsoft? Is it for its great viruses or its monopolistic product?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-9P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}