{"id":111,"date":"2005-08-08T13:50:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T12:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2005-08-08T13:50:48","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T12:50:48","slug":"next-version-of-windows-in-pre-release-virus-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Next version of Windows in pre-release virus shocker*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*may not involve actual shock.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quite impressed. Before Microsoft have even released their ages-in-the-making new version of Windows, previously known as the entendre-creating &#8216;Longhorn&#8217; but now officially dubbed &#8216;Vista&#8217;, there have already been viruses demonstrating security such vulnerabilities that Microsoft has had to remove an entire tool from the software. Ouch. That must have hurt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/08\/04\/vista_virus\/\">http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/08\/04\/vista_virus\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What sort of name is Vista anyway? Vista is suggestive of a grand expansive view to the horizon, with majestic possibilities available to you. Then you put a Window in the way of it and you can only see a tiny portion of the view and maybe you can see more if you press your nose up to the Window, but then you just leave a smudgey mark that takes ages to get rid of, and your Window never quite works as well again.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, maybe Windows Vista is the right name after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*may not involve actual shock. I&#8217;m quite impressed. Before Microsoft have even released their ages-in-the-making new version of Windows, previously known as the entendre-creating &#8216;Longhorn&#8217; but now officially dubbed &#8216;Vista&#8217;, there have already been viruses demonstrating security such vulnerabilities that Microsoft has had to remove an entire tool from the software. Ouch. That must have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next version of Windows in pre-release virus shocker*<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-things","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-1N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}