{"id":656653,"date":"2013-05-07T23:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T03:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=492847"},"modified":"2013-05-07T23:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T03:00:01","slug":"windows-8-marketing-fiasco-deemed-even-worse-than-new-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656653","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 marketing fiasco deemed even worse than \u2018New Coke\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/07\/microsoft-windows-8-criticism-new-coke\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/windows-8-pcs.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Windows 8 Criticism\" title=\"Microsoft Windows 8 Criticism\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/07\/windows-blue-release-date\/\">Windows Blue update on the way<\/a>, analysts have already started writing obituaries for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a>, the operating system that proved to be immensely polarizing among PC users. While history will likely <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/31\/windows-8-praise-vista-comparison-unfair-276901\/\">look upon Windows 8 more kindly than the widely despised Vista<\/a>,\u00a0Envisioneering analyst Richard Doherty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/330c8b8e-b66b-11e2-93ba-00144feabdc0.html\">tells <em>The Financial Times<\/em><\/a> that it will be remembered as the biggest marketing fiasco since Coca Cola decided to rework the formula for its famous soft drink back in the &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/07\/microsoft-windows-8-criticism-new-coke\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/uxBw4b9Rhpo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Windows Blue update on the way, analysts have already started writing obituaries for Windows 8, the operating system that proved to be immensely polarizing among PC users. While history will likely look upon Windows 8 more kindly than the widely despised Vista,\u00a0Envisioneering analyst Richard Doherty tells The Financial Times that it will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}