{"id":396,"date":"2007-10-23T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T16:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2007-10-23T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T16:46:16","slug":"another-reason-not-to-use-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Another reason not to use Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong>APCmag.com<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation.<\/p>\n<p>Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into &#8220;reduced functionality&#8221; mode, where you can&#8217;t do anything but use the web browser for half an hour.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll then need to reapply to <strong>Microsoft <\/strong>to get a new activation code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apcmag.com\/vista_activation\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sticking with XP.\u00a0 Sometimes I wonder how a company with so many intelligent employees can make such stupid mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From APCmag.com: Something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation. Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into &#8220;reduced functionality&#8221; mode, where you can&#8217;t do anything but use the web browser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}