{"id":740207,"date":"2013-03-01T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T22:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=354541"},"modified":"2013-03-01T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T22:15:55","slug":"windows-8-fails-to-impress-holiday-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740207","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 fails to impress holiday shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/01\/windows-8-usage-february-2013-354541\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"598\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/screen-shot-2013-03-01-at-10-44-37-am.png?w=598&#038;h=344&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=598%2C344\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows 8 Usage\" title=\"Windows 8\" \/><\/a><\/center>Following the seemingly tepid launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a>, critics were told to wait until after the holiday shopping season was over to properly assess\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft's<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) newest operating system. The latest monthly numbers from analytics firm Net Applications are in and Windows 8 usage remains low. After two months into the new year, the operating system only accounts for 2.67% of web traffic, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/01\/windows-8-market-share-314040\/\">a small increase from 2.36% in January<\/a>. Windows 8 continues to lag behind Windows Vista (5.17%), Windows XP (38.99%) and Windows 7 (44.55%). Last month also marked the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/31\/windows-8-pricing-increase312887-312887\/\">Microsoft's deep discount on Windows 8<\/a>. The operating system now costs a whopping $119.99, making it even more difficult for the company to entice consumers to upgrade.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/yz4BM81bYuc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the seemingly tepid launch of Windows 8, critics were told to wait until after the holiday shopping season was over to properly assess\u00a0Microsoft&#8217;s (MSFT) newest operating system. The latest monthly numbers from analytics firm Net Applications are in and Windows 8 usage remains low. After two months into the new year, the operating system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"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-740207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36yP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740207","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\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}