{"id":658567,"date":"2013-05-16T14:47:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=151355"},"modified":"2013-05-16T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:47:41","slug":"microsoft-announces-dates-for-european-surface-pro-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658567","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft announces dates for European Surface Pro launches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We already knew that Surface Pro was coming to Europe, but what we didn’t know was exactly when. The company today announces the dates for availability, and the rollout begins in France on \u00a0May 17, continuing to the United Kingdom on May 23. It wraps up with a broad May 30 release in\u00a0Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, and one more big day in Germany on May 31.<\/p>\n

There’s more to come, but Brian Hall,\u00a0General Manager of the Microsoft Surface\u00a0team concedes that “some markets are still confirming timing so aren\u2019t included here”.<\/p>\n

Yesterday my colleague Wayne Williams reported that Microsoft was offering a free cover to UK residents<\/a> who purchase Surface RT before the end of June, but it turns out Microsoft will be offering the same deal to purchasers in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Making Surface available in Europe is a giant step for Microsoft’s hopes of getting its first tablet to the masses and making the device, and the operating system, a success.<\/p>\n

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We already knew that Surface Pro was coming to Europe, but what we didn’t know was exactly when. The company today announces the dates for availability, and the rollout begins in France on \u00a0May 17, continuing to the United Kingdom on May 23. It wraps up with a broad May 30 release in\u00a0Austria, Belgium, Denmark, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658567","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\/7430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}