{"id":399,"date":"2006-02-08T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/08\/windows-vista-will-be-released-december-1st\/"},"modified":"2006-03-18T22:17:38","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T22:17:38","slug":"windows-vista-will-be-released-december-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/08\/windows-vista-will-be-released-december-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Vista will be released December 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey check this Windows Vista competition out, it&#8217;s a competition were you can try and guess the launch date of windows vista, I&#8217;ve included below a post from Thomas in which he posts his thoughts about the release date.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Or November 30th. How do I know? Well, Microsoft EMEA has put up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/emea\/msdn\/betaexperience\/launchcontest\/\">website<\/a> where you can guess the launch date for Windows Vista. After you submit a date, it plays a hint video. There&#8217;s actually a bunch of videos, some of which are quite funny. Anyway, here comes the interesting part: If you take a look at the page source, the videos are hosted on a Microsoft server in Switzerland. And depending on your guess, they are being loaded either from a subdirectory \/early\/ or another one named \/late\/.<\/p>\n<p>By simple iteration I quickly found that early ends Nov 30th while late starts Dec 1st. So either one of these will be the launch date. If this all is not a dirty little trick from the webmaster, of course\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Image Hosted by ImageShack.us\" alt=\"Image Hosted by ImageShack.us\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/02\/guesslaunchdate.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teezeh.info\/2006\/02\/07\/windows-vista-will-be-released-december-1st\">teezeh dot info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey check this Windows Vista competition out, it&#8217;s a competition were you can try and guess the launch date of windows vista, I&#8217;ve included below a post from Thomas in which he posts his thoughts about the release date. Or November 30th. How do I know? Well, Microsoft EMEA has put up a website where you can guess the launch<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/08\/windows-vista-will-be-released-december-1st\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Vista will be released December 1st&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}