{"id":4433,"date":"2013-05-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/05\/07\/how-to-tell-the-poseurs-from-the-actual-windows-developers\/"},"modified":"2013-05-07T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T07:00:00","slug":"how-to-tell-the-poseurs-from-the-actual-windows-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20130507-00\/?p=4433","title":{"rendered":"How to tell the poseurs from the actual Windows developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poseurs will call Windows versions by their programmatic version numbers. For example, they will call Windows Vista &#8220;NT6&#8221; and Windows&nbsp;7 &#8220;NT6.1&#8221;. Trust me, nobody on the Windows team calls the products by their programmatic version numbers. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2011\/10\/06\/10220920.aspx#10221276\"> Whenever anybody says &#8220;NT6&#8221;<\/a> I have to go to Wikipedia and look up what they&#8217;re actually talking about. If I even care to bother, and usually I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p> Actually, since I work in the client division, I also have to go look up what Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 corespond to. People will ask question about client-related issues on server, and we have to go back and match it up. <\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s like TV insider poseurs who refer to episodes as &#8220;Season 3 Episode 9&#8221; instead of by their title or just a plot description. If you say to somebody who works on a TV show, &#8220;In season 3 episode 9, Anna <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homestarrunner.com\/sbemail3.html\"> clearly states<\/a> that she is an only child, yet in season 5 episode 12, she talks about her older sister,&#8221; they will have no clue what episode you&#8217;re talking about. <\/p>\n<p> They will also tell you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x930vt_william-shatner-snl-skit-get-a-life_fun\"> get a life<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Bonus chatter<\/b>: The phrase &#8220;clearly states&#8221; is a pretty good tip-off that you&#8217;re dealing with somebody who needs to get out of their parents&#8217; basement more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poseurs will call Windows versions by their programmatic version numbers. For example, they will call Windows Vista &#8220;NT6&#8221; and Windows&nbsp;7 &#8220;NT6.1&#8221;. Trust me, nobody on the Windows team calls the products by their programmatic version numbers. Whenever anybody says &#8220;NT6&#8221; I have to go to Wikipedia and look up what they&#8217;re actually talking about. If [&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":[26],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Poseurs will call Windows versions by their programmatic version numbers. For example, they will call Windows Vista &#8220;NT6&#8221; and Windows&nbsp;7 &#8220;NT6.1&#8221;. Trust me, nobody on the Windows team calls the products by their programmatic version numbers. Whenever anybody says &#8220;NT6&#8221; I have to go to Wikipedia and look up what they&#8217;re actually talking about. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","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=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/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=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}