{"id":215,"date":"2000-06-05T09:56:44","date_gmt":"2000-06-05T17:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/?p=215"},"modified":"2020-08-18T09:57:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:57:24","slug":"breaking-up-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/2000\/06\/05\/breaking-up-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Up Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0finally resigns itself to being broken up, I recommend that they form the following two companies:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windows.com\/\">Windows.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.office.com\/\">Office.com<\/a>. They already own the windows.com domain name, and I imagine that they could obtain the office.com one for an insignificant sum of money. Thanks to their brilliant marketing machine, most users of Office and Windows don&#8217;t actually know that they are Microsoft products anyway. (Overheard on the phone to an office administrator: &#8220;You mean Windows NT is a Microsoft product? I didn&#8217;t know that!&#8221; I swear this actually happened.) I would like to browse\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/business.office.com\/\">business.office.com<\/a>\u00a0for Word, Excel, etc, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/developer.office.com\/\">developer.office.com<\/a>\u00a0for the MSDN \/ Visual Studio products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0finally resigns itself to being broken up, I recommend that they form the following two companies:\u00a0Windows.com\u00a0and\u00a0Office.com. They already own the windows.com domain name, and I imagine that they could obtain the office.com one for an insignificant sum of money. Thanks to their brilliant marketing machine, most users of Office and Windows don&#8217;t actually know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-commentary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}