{"id":750981,"date":"2013-05-13T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T18:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=514610"},"modified":"2013-05-13T14:40:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T18:40:20","slug":"microsofts-windows-8-rethink-humiliating-defeat-or-savvy-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/750981","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Windows 8 rethink: Humiliating defeat or savvy maneuver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/13\/microsoft-windows-8-changes-analysis\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/ballmer-windows-8.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Windows 8 Changes Analysis\" title=\"Microsoft Windows 8 Changes Analysis\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Microsoft's <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/07\/windows-blue-release-date\/\">admission last week that it would need to make changes to its Windows 8 operating system<\/a> to address a steeper-than-expected user learning curve has sparked two very different reactions from media and analysts. On the one side, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft's<\/a> backtracking on Windows 8 is seen as a sign of humiliating defeat that could even point the way toward CEO Steve Ballmer's exit from the company. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/mediatechnologyandtelecoms\/10052316\/Windows-8-woes-spark-questions-over-Microsoft-chiefs-future.html\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em> takes this particular angle<\/a> with a report that focusses on the \"hostile reception\" to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a> and that quotes an analyst who says that \"investors think Ballmer\u2019s the wrong guy\" to run Microsoft because \"he missed tablets and he missed smartphones, and that these are the two areas of technology that really count.\"<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/13\/microsoft-windows-8-changes-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/isMATAa2fSU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s admission last week that it would need to make changes to its Windows 8 operating system to address a steeper-than-expected user learning curve has sparked two very different reactions from media and analysts. On the one side, Microsoft&#8217;s backtracking on Windows 8 is seen as a sign of humiliating defeat that could even point [&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-750981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-39mB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750981","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=750981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}