{"id":738924,"date":"2013-02-21T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=339409"},"modified":"2013-02-21T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T16:35:06","slug":"poll-shows-americas-youth-think-microsoft-is-becoming-cool-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/738924","title":{"rendered":"Poll shows America\u2019s youth think Microsoft is becoming \u2018cool\u2019 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/21\/microsoft-brand-perception-poll-339409\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/microsoft-children.png?w=650&#038;h=700&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C700\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Brand Perception Poll\" title=\"Microsoft Surface RT Ad\" \/><\/a><\/center>Although <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) hasn't been considered \"cool\" since the heyday of Pogs and \"The Macarena,\" a new\u00a0Reuters\/Ipsos poll shows that things may be changing. \u00a0As <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/02\/21\/microsoft-facebook-apple-twitter-poll-idINDEE91K04T20130221\"><em>Reuters<\/em> reports<\/a>, the poll shows that roughly 50% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 think Microsoft is cooler than it was a year ago, a positive result for the company that mirrors a <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/10\/iphone-surface-teen-survey-287400\/\">recent survey of American teenagers showing strong interest in the Surface tablet<\/a>. Microsoft still has a ways to go before it's the \"coolest\" tech company around, however, as the poll also found that 70% of young Americans said that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google's<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) Android operating system has gotten cooler over the last year, while 60% said that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) had gotten cooler over the past year.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/21\/microsoft-brand-perception-poll-339409\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/IOfFztfq_rI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Microsoft (MSFT) hasn&#8217;t been considered &#8220;cool&#8221; since the heyday of Pogs and &#8220;The Macarena,&#8221; a new\u00a0Reuters\/Ipsos poll shows that things may be changing. \u00a0As Reuters reports, the poll shows that roughly 50% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 think Microsoft is cooler than it was a year ago, a positive result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36e8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}