{"id":713,"date":"2014-06-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/06\/18\/10-is-the-new-6\/"},"modified":"2014-06-18T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T07:00:00","slug":"10-is-the-new-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20140618-00\/?p=713\/","title":{"rendered":"10 is the new 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> While it may no longer be true that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/06\/07\/10020654.aspx\"> everything at Microsoft is built using various flavors of Visual C++ 5.0, 6.0, and 7.0<\/a>, there is still a kernel of truth in it: A lot of <i>customers<\/i> are still using Visual C++ 6.0. <\/p>\n<p> That&#8217;s why the unofficial slogan for Visual C++ 2010 was <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/pdc2008\/TL13\"> <i>10 is the new 6<\/i><\/a>. Everybody on the team got a T-shirt with the slogan (because you don&#8217;t have a product <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/larryosterman\/archive\/2007\/06\/01\/missed-metaphors.aspx\"> until you have a T-shirt<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it may no longer be true that everything at Microsoft is built using various flavors of Visual C++ 5.0, 6.0, and 7.0, there is still a kernel of truth in it: A lot of customers are still using Visual C++ 6.0. That&#8217;s why the unofficial slogan for Visual C++ 2010 was 10 is the [&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":[2],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>While it may no longer be true that everything at Microsoft is built using various flavors of Visual C++ 5.0, 6.0, and 7.0, there is still a kernel of truth in it: A lot of customers are still using Visual C++ 6.0. That&#8217;s why the unofficial slogan for Visual C++ 2010 was 10 is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/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=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}