{"id":251,"date":"2001-11-05T18:33:57","date_gmt":"2001-11-05T23:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=251"},"modified":"2001-11-05T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2001-11-05T23:33:57","slug":"xpletive-deleted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/11\/05\/xpletive-deleted\/","title":{"rendered":"XPletive deleted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>XP.  What&#8217;s in it for me?  I can think of many reasons NOT to move to XP, but no reasons in favour.<\/p>\n<p><b>pros:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>groovy new skin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>cons:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    <i>Passport Integration<\/i><br \/>\n    <small>Really, can any one honestly tell me there is any reason I should even consider installing XP after reading about these <a href=\"http:\/\/alive.znep.com\/~marcs\/passport\/\">Passport Exploits<\/a>?<\/small>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <i>Messenger Integration<\/i><br \/>\n    <small>don&#8217;t need it (I prefer to use Yahoo IM)<\/small>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <i>Forced Registration<\/i><br \/>\n    <small>don&#8217;t want it<\/small>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <i>Licence Expiry \/ Lockout<\/i><br \/>\n    <small>if I decide to stop paying, can I continue using it?<\/small>\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    <i>Increased Dependence on MS Web Services<\/i><br \/>\n    <small>what happens when they start charging 25 cents for every .NET diary lookup call?<\/small>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XP. What&#8217;s in it for me? I can think of many reasons NOT to move to XP, but no reasons in favour. pros: groovy new skin cons: Passport Integration Really, can any one honestly tell me there is any reason I should even consider installing XP after reading about these Passport Exploits? Messenger Integration don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}