{"id":95,"date":"2015-03-02T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technidad.wordpress.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2015-03-02T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:05:09","slug":"forcing-a-windows-hegemony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/03\/02\/forcing-a-windows-hegemony\/","title":{"rendered":"Forcing a Windows Hegemony."},"content":{"rendered":"

After many years of autonomy when it comes to specing and purchasing my work computer, things have started to change. There seems to be a concerted effort to move to a homogeneous (Windows) environment. Here’s how it’s being done:<\/p>\n

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  1. A deal has been negotiated with Dell to “standardize” on one configuration. A condition of this agreement calls for 80% of all purchased machines to be this standard configuration.<\/li>\n
  2. Allow non-standard configurations, but limit them to the price of the standard configuration.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What this effectively means is that new Mac purchases are limited to the price that was negotiated for a bottom or middle of the line Dell.
    \nAll I keep thinking is that BYOD can’t come soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After many years of autonomy when it comes to specing and purchasing my work computer, things have started to change. There seems to be a concerted effort to move to a homogeneous (Windows) environment. Here’s how it’s being done: A deal has been negotiated with Dell to “standardize” on one configuration. A condition of this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caplater.ddns.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}