{"id":3100,"date":"2004-07-12T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-12T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/micorsoft-is-adopting-me\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T02:14:00","slug":"micorsoft-is-adopting-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/3100","title":{"rendered":"Micorsoft is adopting me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love SharpReader, the RSS Reader. It allows me to keep up to date with a whole lot of stuff. And do it fairly effectively. Imagine my surprise when I see a strange new article on CNET, a news source that I normally only look at if it is a link of <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">SlashDot.Org<\/a>. Anyway there are an item there about new Microsoft ISV offerings. One of them was a new license structure for including microsoft products with my products. Ho, Hum. <\/p>\n<p>The next was a program by microsoft to adopt one of us poor ISV&#8217;s. Now, this is amazing. A large company like Microsoft caring about me. Yeah. Sure. And Bill Gates is inviting me for sunday lunch. Sure enough&#8230; So I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/isv\/isvbuddy\/default.aspx\">MSDN<\/a> and registered. I was not expecting much. And a few minutes later came back an email saying that a person in microsoft (who I will not name at the moment, but who does Blog) has chosen me as an adoptee. <\/p>\n<p>Sure, then I needed to provide some more details, but it is a start. I am impressed. I have yet to hear from this person in real life, but I would not expect anything but good things now that I have got this far. The reports are that there are so far 800 people who are prepared to be buddies in Microsoft already. Cool. Although I suspect that the demand will out-strip the supply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love SharpReader, the RSS Reader. It allows me to keep up to date with a whole lot of stuff. And do it fairly effectively. Imagine my surprise when I see a strange new article on CNET, a news source &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/3100\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Micorsoft is adopting me&#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5cfmK-O0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}