{"id":643,"date":"2010-02-09T21:56:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/go\/?p=643"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T06:14:13","slug":"jargon-plug-and-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/jargon-plug-and-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Jargon: Plug-and-Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In computing, &#8216;plug and play&#8217; describes the joint capability of\u00a0 plugging devices to a computer and getting them running without configuration effort. Its a feature that, both, the hardware (the device) &amp; software (usually a driver or operating system) The software is capable of discovering &amp; getting the hardware ready to use; and to do this the hardware provides necessary information. USB devices are a classic example, but the term was more popularized by Microsoft to market the ability of its Windows OS to configure devices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This term is also used by sales teams to market software and emphasize its ease of installation\/deployment, configuration\/implementation and quicker Go Live! However, this is not always the case! My boss once told a vendor that not matter what sales calls it, to customers its usually &#8216;Plug-and-Pray&#8217; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In computing, &#8216;plug and play&#8217; describes the joint capability of\u00a0 plugging devices to a computer and getting them running without configuration effort. Its a feature that, both, the hardware (the device) &amp; software (usually a driver or operating system) The software is capable of discovering &amp; getting the hardware ready to use; and to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/jargon-plug-and-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jargon: Plug-and-Play<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[231,112,229,230,228],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-hardware","tag-jargon","tag-pci","tag-pluggable-devices","tag-usb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}