{"id":12931,"date":"2015-08-18T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12931"},"modified":"2015-08-18T07:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T11:24:05","slug":"the-secret-reason-why-microsoft-has-the-world-play-solitaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-secret-reason-why-microsoft-has-the-world-play-solitaire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Reason Why Microsoft Has The World Play Solitaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/081815_1121_TheSecretRe1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Countless hours have been wasted in offices across the world playing Solitaire on Windows PCs. James Hunt looked at Microsoft&#8217;s secret agenda in having people do so:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solitaire arrived on Windows in 1990 for a generation of users that were used to text based command line input ways of interacting with computers.<\/li>\n<li>People didn&#8217;t know how to use a graphical user interface which involved dragging and dropping things with a mouse. So through the game Solitaire Microsoft trained an entire generation to use the mouse to manipulate things.<\/li>\n<li>Two years later Minesweeper come out for similar reasons. It taught people how to effectively right and left click on their mouse.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly Hearts came out for the first networked version of Windows, and taught people how to connect with other players over networks.<\/li>\n<li>Now in Windows 10 those who want to play Solitaire have to use the Windows app store. The company&#8217;s aim is to teach users how to use the store to find other apps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/uk\/technology\/32106\/the-true-purpose-of-solitaire-minesweeper-hearts-and-freecell\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/uk\/technology\/32106\/the-true-purpose-of-solitaire-minesweeper-hearts-and-freecell\">Mental Floss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countless hours have been wasted in offices across the world playing Solitaire on Windows PCs. James Hunt looked at Microsoft&#8217;s secret agenda in having people do so: Solitaire arrived on Windows in 1990 for a generation of users that were used to text based command line input ways of interacting with computers. People didn&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/081815_1121_TheSecretRe1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12934,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions\/12934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}