{"id":26733,"date":"2007-05-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/05\/23\/microspeak-the-forcing-function\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T10:00:00","slug":"microspeak-the-forcing-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070523-00\/?p=26733","title":{"rendered":"Microspeak: The forcing function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> At Microsoft, you&#8217;ll hear the phrase &#8220;forcing function&#8221; and it won&#8217;t be in reference to <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/rfpk\/training\/tutorials\/modeling\/part8\/10.html\"> differential equations<\/a> or to <a href=\"http:\/\/psnet.ahrq.gov\/glossary.aspx#F\"> user interface design<\/a>. Rather, it means a set of circumstances that forces a decision to be made or which forces an action to be taken that previously had no hard deadline. <\/p>\n<p> Example: &#8220;The impending Y2K threat served as a forcing function for many companies to upgrade their hardware.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Microsoft, you&#8217;ll hear the phrase &#8220;forcing function&#8221; and it won&#8217;t be in reference to differential equations or to user interface design. Rather, it means a set of circumstances that forces a decision to be made or which forces an action to be taken that previously had no hard deadline. Example: &#8220;The impending Y2K threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[105,26],"class_list":["post-26733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>At Microsoft, you&#8217;ll hear the phrase &#8220;forcing function&#8221; and it won&#8217;t be in reference to differential equations or to user interface design. Rather, it means a set of circumstances that forces a decision to be made or which forces an action to be taken that previously had no hard deadline. Example: &#8220;The impending Y2K threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}