{"id":745225,"date":"2013-04-05T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=415091"},"modified":"2013-04-05T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:15:08","slug":"former-windows-8-bull-changes-tune-says-platform-is-challenging-our-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/745225","title":{"rendered":"Former Windows 8 bull changes tune, says platform is \u2018challenging our optimism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/05\/windows-8-momentum-analysis-415091\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"422\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/ballmer-windows-8.jpg?w=650&#038;h=422&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C422\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows 8 Momentum\" title=\"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer\" \/><\/a><\/center>We know that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/08\/samsung-executive-windows-8-criticism-364626\/\">Windows 8 has failed to reignite demand in the PC market<\/a>\u00a0so far and now one formerly bullish analyst says that the platform \"lacks momentum\" and is \"challenging\" his earlier optimism. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/analyst-ratings\/analyst-color\/13\/04\/3470577\/update-microsoft-downgraded-at-bank-of-america-on-lack-o\"><em>Benzinga<\/em> notes<\/a> that\u00a0Bank of America analyst Kash Ragan downgraded <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) from \"Buy\" to \"Neutral\" on Thursday and expressed dismay that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/01\/windows-8-market-share-march-2013-408961\/\">Windows 8 has still shown few signs of catching on<\/a> \"despite more available touch-based devices\" more than six months since the platform's initial launch. Microsoft has been taking feedback from early Windows 8 adopters and is planning to make changes to the operating system aimed at winning over more traditional Windows users with its <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/02\/microsoft-windows-blue-81-rumor-410527\/\">\"Windows Blue update\" rumored to be released this summer<\/a>.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/9boR0rrM9Xs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that Windows 8 has failed to reignite demand in the PC market\u00a0so far and now one formerly bullish analyst says that the platform &#8220;lacks momentum&#8221; and is &#8220;challenging&#8221; his earlier optimism. Benzinga notes that\u00a0Bank of America analyst Kash Ragan downgraded Microsoft (MSFT) from &#8220;Buy&#8221; to &#8220;Neutral&#8221; on Thursday and expressed dismay that Windows [&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-745225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37RL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745225","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=745225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}