{"id":88,"date":"2009-06-22T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T08:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/fud-the-microsoft-way\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:16:26","slug":"fud-the-microsoft-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/fud-the-microsoft-way\/","title":{"rendered":"FUD, the Microsoft way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Microsoft,<\/p>\n<p>we all know that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt\">&#8220;Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt&#8221;-strategy<\/a> worked quite well against Linux and other threats to your Monopoly business. By why do you apply the same tactic towards a Windows user that simply wants to open a zip-file?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image87\" src=\"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/microsoft-fud.png\" alt=\"microsoft-fud\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Translation: &#8220;This page contains an unspecified potential security risk. Do you want to continue?&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think a user should do with that information?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Microsoft, we all know that the &#8220;Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt&#8221;-strategy worked quite well against Linux and other threats to your Monopoly business. By why do you apply the same tactic towards a Windows user that simply wants to open a zip-file? (Translation: &#8220;This page contains an unspecified potential security risk. Do you want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cert","category-pet-peeves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}