{"id":12199,"date":"2006-10-22T20:30:24","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/10\/microsoft-mimesweeper.html"},"modified":"2006-10-22T20:30:24","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T20:30:24","slug":"microsoft_mimesweeper-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/22\/microsoft_mimesweeper-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft &#034;Mimesweeper&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft UX dude Dave Vronay has a great sense of humor about his company&#8217;s occasional struggles to make Windows elegant and usable. In his mock-apologetic list of <a href=\"http:\/\/shellrevealed.com\/blogs\/shellblog\/archive\/2006\/10\/09\/Features-that-didn_2700_t-make-the-cut.aspx\">features that didn&#8217;t make the cut for Vista<\/a>, he mentions &quot;Mimesweeper,&quot; a more politically sensitive version of the venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minesweeper_(game)\">Minesweeper<\/a> game.   &quot;Just like wandering around Paris, the goal is to figure out where all of the mimes are without actually encountering one.&quot;&#160; Sadly, he reports, the game came to naught, as did the, ah, <em>highly discoverable<\/em> &quot;Safe Delete&quot; feature.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/pogue.blogs.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/20\/blogging-from-microsoft\/\">Via<\/a>]&#160; [For more tech parody see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/07\/goofing_on_trendies.html\">previous<\/a>.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft UX dude Dave Vronay has a great sense of humor about his company&#8217;s occasional struggles to make Windows elegant and usable. In his mock-apologetic list of features that didn&#8217;t make the cut for Vista, he mentions &quot;Mimesweeper,&quot; a more politically sensitive version of the venerable Minesweeper game. &quot;Just like wandering around Paris, the goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}