{"id":657149,"date":"2013-05-09T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=499152"},"modified":"2013-05-09T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:25:20","slug":"acer-execs-dial-back-the-windows-8-hate-as-microsoft-preps-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657149","title":{"rendered":"Acer execs dial back the Windows 8 hate as Microsoft preps \u2018Blue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/windows-8-1-praise-acer-president-ceo\/\" 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=\"Windows 8.1 praise: Acer president, CEO\" title=\"Windows 8.1 praise: Acer president, CEO\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Acer president Jim Wong has <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/28\/acer-chromebook-sales-309984\/\">been highly critical of Microsoft<\/a> and the Windows 8 operating system over the past year. The executive previously bashed the company for its Surface tablet and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/07\/microsoft-criticism-acer-president-wong-284900\/\">failed marketing of Windows 8 devices<\/a>. Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/07\/windows-blue-release-date\/\">recently confirmed<\/a> that it is working on <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8-1\">Windows 8.1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/02\/microsoft-windows-blue-81-rumor-410527\/\">codenamed Windows Blue<\/a>, which will be an update that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/16\/windows-8-1-details-start-screen-442628\/\">includes various software changes<\/a>, such as the return of the Start button. Wong believes these changes are a step in the right direction, noting that Microsoft is being more \u201cconsiderate\u201d to its hardware partners and adopting their input \u201cat a high percentage.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/windows-8-1-praise-acer-president-ceo\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/8pc6dljl0oY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acer president Jim Wong has been highly critical of Microsoft and the Windows 8 operating system over the past year. The executive previously bashed the company for its Surface tablet and failed marketing of Windows 8 devices. Microsoft recently confirmed that it is working on Windows 8.1, codenamed Windows Blue, which will be an update [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657149","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\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}