{"id":30,"date":"2007-01-30T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T02:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2007-01-30T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T02:41:15","slug":"is-microsoft-vista-sexy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Is Microsoft Vista &quot;Sexy&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you know me, you know that I hate the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sexy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when used to refer to anything other than people, clothing, or actions. My wife is sexy, a Bikini can be sexy, A dance can be sexy\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But a car? an iPod? a Phone? a COMPUTER PROGRAM?!? Let me tell you something, kiddo: If I don&#8217;t pop a woody, honey, it ain&#8217;t sexy. And if you&#8217;re pitching a tent over the next Release Candidate, you got some serious issues.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop the world&#8217;s various marketing departments. from trying to use sex to sell anything! stuff! I mean, just look at this ad from Microsoft:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/WindowsLiveWriter\/IsMicrosoftVistaSexy_130D4\/ad1%5B6%5D.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"564\" height=\"110\" alt=\"You know you want me....\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/WindowsLiveWriter\/IsMicrosoftVistaSexy_130D4\/ad1_thumb%5B4%5D.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, but she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Professional! Look, she has a COLLAR!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If the suggestive look on her face doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give it away, then maybe the NOT-SO-SUBLIMINAL OPEN-COLLAR GRAPHIC framing the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Get Windows Vista Now!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d might convince you! Why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they just come right out and say it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/WindowsLiveWriter\/IsMicrosoftVistaSexy_130D4\/ad2%5B3%5D.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"187\" alt=\"Oh Yes, I MUST HAVE YOU!!!!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/WindowsLiveWriter\/IsMicrosoftVistaSexy_130D4\/ad2_thumb%5B1%5D.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: <em>Later that evening our CD of a Beta version disappeared&#8230; We don&#8217;t know where Tung gets off.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know me, you know that I hate the term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sexy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when used to refer to anything other than people, clothing, or actions. My wife is sexy, a Bikini can be sexy, A dance can be sexy\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But a car? an iPod? a Phone? a COMPUTER PROGRAM?!? Let me tell you something, kiddo: If&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/?p=30\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Microsoft Vista &quot;Sexy&quot;?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}