{"id":2711,"date":"2013-04-08T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riguy.azurewebsites.net\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2014-12-19T02:09:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T02:09:55","slug":"2711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=2711","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 sales are not doing so well. As a result OEMs and Microsoft are dropping the prices.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Despite <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/tags\/topic\/Microsoft+Corporation\" target=\"_self\"><em>Microsoft<\/em><\/a><em>&#8216;s best efforts, it seems that <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/tags\/topic\/Microsoft+Windows+8\" target=\"_self\"><em>Windows 8<\/em><\/a><em> isn&#8217;t meeting expectations. According to research firm Net Applications, Microsoft&#8217;s latest OS hasn&#8217;t even been able to match sales of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/tags\/topic\/Microsoft+Windows+Vista\" target=\"_self\"><em>Vista<\/em><\/a><em> (which, if you recall, was a major fail for the company). Making matters worse, Microsoft has a long line of unhappy manufacturers \u2014 including <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/tags\/topic\/Hewlett-Packard+Company\" target=\"_self\"><em>HP<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/tags\/topic\/ASUSTeK+Computer+Inc.\" target=\"_self\"><em>ASUS<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/tags\/topic\/Fujitsu+Ltd.\" target=\"_self\"><em>Fujitsu<\/em><\/a><em>, and <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/tags\/topic\/Samsung+Corporation\" target=\"_self\"><em>Samsung<\/em><\/a><em> \u2014 upset with Windows 8&#8217;s failure to revitalize an already-sluggish PC market.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Business\/Saving-Money\/2013\/0406\/Laptop-sales-Windows-8-s-loss-is-your-gain\">http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Business\/Saving-Money\/2013\/0406\/Laptop-sales-Windows-8-s-loss-is-your-gain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 sales are not doing so well. As a result OEMs and Microsoft are dropping the prices. &#8220;Despite Microsoft&#8216;s best efforts, it seems that Windows 8 isn&#8217;t meeting expectations. According to research firm Net Applications, Microsoft&#8217;s latest OS hasn&#8217;t even been able to match sales of Vista (which, if you recall, was a major &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=2711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows 8 Sales&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}