{"id":6502,"date":"2012-10-26T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6502"},"modified":"2012-10-26T00:12:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T04:12:36","slug":"could-windows-8-make-microsoft-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/could-windows-8-make-microsoft-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Windows 8 Make Microsoft Cool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102612_0333_CouldWindow11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today is the launch date of Windows 8 \u2013 Microsoft&#8217;s most radical overhaul of the venerable operating system in over a decade. The existing interface will take a backseat to the touch interface pictured above. Will Oremus pondered if this bet would make Microsoft cool:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 8 is a big departure from the Windows of yore. Users used to the old way of doing things will likely find the operating system jarring.<\/li>\n<li>However Windows 8 has all the features and capabilities that are likely to appeal to a younger generation. It requires experimentation and excitement to figure out the best way to use it \u2013 exactly the kind of thing that younger, more tech-savvy individuals enjoy.<\/li>\n<li>While its primary competitor, the iPad, is simple enough that even the very old now use it; the young might reject the iPad because of its simplicity and lack of features. The iPad would be used by grandmas while Windows 8 would be used by teenagers. Microsoft would be &#8216;cool&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more of the argument <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2012\/10\/25\/microsoft_releases_windows_8_surface_tablet_kids_will_love_them.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2012\/10\/25\/microsoft_releases_windows_8_surface_tablet_kids_will_love_them.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the launch date of Windows 8 \u2013 Microsoft&#8217;s most radical overhaul of the venerable operating system in over a decade. The existing interface will take a backseat to the touch interface pictured above. Will Oremus pondered if this bet would make Microsoft cool: Windows 8 is a big departure from the Windows of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102612_0333_CouldWindow11.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6502"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6520,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6502\/revisions\/6520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}