{"id":12040,"date":"2012-01-21T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T10:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12040"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T10:50:26","slug":"showstopper-looks-like-good-read-a-history-of-windows-nt-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12040","title":{"rendered":"Showstopper Looks Like  Good Read, a History of Windows NT Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to TWiT Windows Weekly on the drive this morning and Mary Jo Foley declared a book to be the best book about Microsoft company history around.&#160; I was intrigued. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generation-Microsoft\/dp\/0759285780%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0759285780\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51F42ko-gyL.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generation-Microsoft\/dp\/0759285780%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAIJ5WNI7ZSH7W4OXA%26tag%3Dafm0c-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0759285780\" target=\"_blank\">Showstopper<\/a> is by G. Pascal Zachary.&#160; It tells the story of how a team developed Windows NT, the original version of what would become Windows XP\/Vista\/7\/8.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just bought it and sent it to my iPad.&#160; I\u2019m in the middle of reading another book at the moment.&#160; This one will be next on my reading list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to TWiT Windows Weekly on the drive this morning and Mary Jo Foley declared a book to be the best book about Microsoft company history around.&#160; I was intrigued. Showstopper is by G. Pascal Zachary.&#160; It tells the story of how a team developed Windows NT, the original version of what would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Showstopper Looks Like  Good Read, a History of Windows NT Development&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}