{"id":740939,"date":"2013-03-07T14:28:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=362912"},"modified":"2013-03-07T14:28:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:28:04","slug":"microsoft-exec-says-shoddy-oem-products-have-hurt-companys-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740939","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft exec says shoddy OEM products have hurt company\u2019s reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/microsoft-executive-mundie-interview-362912\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"574\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/dell-flops-2.jpg?w=650&#038;h=574&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C574\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Executive Mundie\" title=\"Dell Dude, Dell Flops\" \/><\/a><\/center>It's no secret that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/16\/microsoft-surface-critics-criticism\/\">build the Surface on its own because it wanted to set a benchmark for its OEMs to follow<\/a> when creating their own Windows-based tablets. And now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/3\/7\/4073132\/microsoft-hardware-oems-surface-challenge-craig-mundie\"><em>The Verge<\/em> reports<\/a> that Microsoft\u00a0chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie this week said bluntly that the company had made a mistake by giving OEMs a free rein over design without providing any sort of input or feedback. The result, he said, was that users had wildly different experiences with Windows-based devices based on the device they bought, which hurt Microsoft's reputation for delivering a consistent experience across all devices.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/microsoft-executive-mundie-interview-362912\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/6sgYl7Uy5KU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that Microsoft (MSFT) decided to build the Surface on its own because it wanted to set a benchmark for its OEMs to follow when creating their own Windows-based tablets. And now The Verge reports that Microsoft\u00a0chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie this week said bluntly that the company had made a [&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":[4821,12071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36KD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740939","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=740939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}