{"id":862,"date":"2008-07-05T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2008-07-05T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T20:47:00","slug":"paul-thurrott-turns-into-a-13-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2008\/07\/05\/paul-thurrott-turns-into-a-13-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Thurrott Turns into A 13-Year-Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/twit.tv\/ww66\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Weekly 66,<\/a> Paul Thurrott turns into a whiny 13-year-old. Thurrott feels that he is the one to defend Microsoft against some mainstream journalists. The argument is valid, but essentially Thurrott debunked himself for not being a Microsoft (original) Defender (not to be confused with Microsoft Windows Defender, the anti-spyware software. Thanks clintthewookie for the corrections.).<\/p>\n<p>Close to the 18 minute mark of the podcast (note to Leo Laporte: &#8220;netcast&#8221; term is lame), Thurrott mentions that with 1 terabyte hard drive and 4GB RAM, it is essentially OK to have &#8220;bloated software&#8221; just because the resources is there. Gee, that sounds like Thurrott echoing Bill Gates.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit after, Thurrott was saying: &#8220;The version of Mac OS X that was available when Windows 95 shipped&#8230;..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leo Laporte did not even catch it waht ever the reason was.<\/p>\n<p>Series of Tubes to Paul Thurrott: There was no Mac OS X back in 1995. Not even in 1998. Don&#8217;t you remember your MacBook Core Solo?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/ww66_excerpts.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Weekly 66 (excerpts)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Windows Weekly 66, Paul Thurrott turns into a whiny 13-year-old. Thurrott feels that he is the one to defend Microsoft against some mainstream journalists. The argument is valid, but essentially Thurrott debunked himself for not being a Microsoft (original) Defender (not to be confused with Microsoft Windows Defender, the anti-spyware software. Thanks clintthewookie for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2008\/07\/05\/paul-thurrott-turns-into-a-13-year-old\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paul Thurrott Turns into A 13-Year-Old&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4,6],"tags":[1849,1931,2009,934,2511,936,3052,3131,3216],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-rants","tag-leo-laporte","tag-mac-os-x","tag-media","tag-microsoft","tag-resources","tag-tech","tag-twit","tag-vista","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}