{"id":5421,"date":"2005-01-06T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T15:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2005-01-06T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T15:51:11","slug":"microsoft-releases-free-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2005\/01\/06\/microsoft-releases-free-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases &#8220;free&#8221; tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooooh! I spy a new revenue stream for MS!<br \/>\nSo, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4151457.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News - Microsoft releases free anti-virus and anti-adware tools for Windows\">this<\/a> is, on the one hand, a good thing, as it should lead to a reduction in infected Windows PCs globally. Tick v.g.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, isn&#8217;t this anti-competitive, particularly when viewed from the point of view of the anti-virus and anti-adware software companies? I think I&#8217;ll hold fire before downloading and installing and see what the perceived wisdom is &#8211; after all, my machine is currently virus and adware free due to the non-MS software that I run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooooh! I spy a new revenue stream for MS! So, this is, on the one hand, a good thing, as it should lead to a reduction in infected Windows PCs globally. Tick v.g. On the other hand, isn&#8217;t this anti-competitive, particularly when viewed from the point of view of the anti-virus and anti-adware software companies? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}