{"id":745284,"date":"2013-04-05T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=417241"},"modified":"2013-04-05T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:00:41","slug":"microsoft-accuses-facebook-of-copying-windows-phone-with-home-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/745284","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft accuses Facebook of copying Windows Phone with Home launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/05\/microsoft-facebook-home-criticism-417241\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/bgr-htc-windows-phone-8x-12.jpg?w=650&#038;h=580&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C580\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Facebook Home\" title=\"Windows Phone 8\" \/><\/a><\/center>Microsoft (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) thinks that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=fb\">FB<\/a>) is imitating it but it doesn't seem all that flattered so far. In <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/microsoft_blog\/archive\/2013\/04\/05\/welcome-to-the-people-party.aspx\">a post on the company's official <em>TechNet<\/em> blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> VP of corporate communications\u00a0Frank X. Shaw said that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/facebook-home-liveblog-live-coverage-412564\/\">Facebook's launch event for its new Home software<\/a> \"was remarkably similar to the launch event we did for Windows Phone\u00a0two years ago.\" Shaw's <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/05\/facebook-home-analysis-mobile-strategy-415852\/\">criticisms of Facebook Home<\/a> largely revolve around its supposedly novel conception as a \"people-centric\" overlay that places less emphasis on apps and more on your friends and family.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/05\/microsoft-facebook-home-criticism-417241\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/T8hYNPFgqiA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (MSFT) thinks that Facebook (FB) is imitating it but it doesn&#8217;t seem all that flattered so far. In a post on the company&#8217;s official TechNet blog, Microsoft VP of corporate communications\u00a0Frank X. Shaw said that Facebook&#8217;s launch event for its new Home software &#8220;was remarkably similar to the launch event we did for 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":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37SI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745284","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=745284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}