{"id":6615,"date":"2009-10-06T16:47:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T16:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/06\/free-windows-upgrade-only-1700\/"},"modified":"2009-10-06T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T16:47:28","slug":"free-windows-upgrade-only-1700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/06\/free-windows-upgrade-only-1700\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Windows Upgrade only $17.00!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Bizzaro Land, computer users.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since June 26, retailers and computer manufacturers have urged shoppers to buy computers already on store shelves loaded with the much-maligned Windows Vista operating system because they would qualify for a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it was released in October. As it turns out, Mouse Print* has learned that some computer purchasers will be asked to pay shipping, handling and other junk fees that total between $11 and $17 to receive their &#8220;free&#8221; upgrade disks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mouseprint.org\/2009\/10\/01\/hidden-fees-discovered-for-free-windows-7-upgrades\/\"><br \/>\nThe story is here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Bizzaro Land, computer users. Since June 26, retailers and computer manufacturers have urged shoppers to buy computers already on store shelves loaded with the much-maligned Windows Vista operating system because they would qualify for a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it was released in October. As it turns out, Mouse Print* has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/06\/free-windows-upgrade-only-1700\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free Windows Upgrade only $17.00!!!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1IH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}