{"id":657655,"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.media\/index\/657655","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Windows 8 rethink: Humiliating defeat or savvy maneuver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/13\/microsoft-windows-8-changes-analysis\/\" 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\/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&#8217;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&#8217;s<\/a> backtracking on Windows 8 is seen as a sign of humiliating defeat that could even point the way toward CEO Steve Ballmer&#8217;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 &#8220;hostile reception&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a> and that quotes an analyst who says that &#8220;investors think Ballmer\u2019s the wrong guy&#8221; to run Microsoft because &#8220;he missed tablets and he missed smartphones, and that these are the two areas of technology that really count.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/13\/microsoft-windows-8-changes-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/isMATAa2fSU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","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":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657655","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=657655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}