{"id":584,"date":"2007-01-30T16:40:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T21:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2007-01-30T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T21:40:46","slug":"windows-vista-released-to-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Windows Vista released to Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Microsoft released the new version of their Windows Operating System, Windows Vista. I went with my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/roflgoat.wordpress\">Matt<\/a> to pick up Ultimate Edition (he bought it, I don&#8217;t have that kind of money). I&#8217;m documenting it, and let&#8217;s just say it&#8217;s been an hour or so since we came back, and we haven&#8217;t gotten the installer started yet. Hmm. I wonder what that says about Vista? Just kidding. I&#8217;ll post the pictures when it&#8217;s fully installed.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Almost 2.5 hours now, still no luck. We&#8217;re on the phone with the support person from Microsoft now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Update 2: She sounds impressed that he built his own computer<\/p>\n<p>Update 3: &#8220;You have to run the upgrade version by booting from the disc.&#8221; &#8220;I did.&#8221; *really long silence*<\/p>\n<p>Update 4: Woot, It&#8217;s all installed now \ud83d\ude42 He was running XP 32bit on a 64bit processor, and thus he was trying to upgrade to vista 64bit. Turns out that if you&#8217;re running XP 32, you have to upgrade to Vista 32, Vista 64 won&#8217;t work. Strange, but hey-it&#8217;s installed now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Microsoft released the new version of their Windows Operating System, Windows Vista. I went with my friend Matt to pick up Ultimate Edition (he bought it, I don&#8217;t have that kind of money). I&#8217;m documenting it, and let&#8217;s just say it&#8217;s been an hour or so since we came back, and we haven&#8217;t gotten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,23],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computers","tag-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}