{"id":3161,"date":"2012-11-14T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riguy.azurewebsites.net\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2014-12-19T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T01:56:41","slug":"windows-apps-are-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=3161","title":{"rendered":"Windows Apps are Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Apps are coming!<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Good news for everyone who bought a <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/windows\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Windows<\/em><\/a><em> RT tablet or Windows 8 PC: the apps are coming!<\/em><br \/><em>A lack of apps has <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/windows-8-review-2012-10\" target=\"_blank\"><em>been one of the big complaints<\/em><\/a><em> for Windows 8, particularly the RT version, which doesn&#8217;t run <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/windows-7\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Windows 7<\/em><\/a><em> apps. (Full Windows 8 PCs will run any app that works on Windows 7 mode.) No one thought this would be a permanent problem even though <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/blackboard\/microsoft\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Microsoft<\/em><\/a><em> failed to make its goal of 10,000 apps in the store by launch day. Windows 8 officially went on sale on Friday.<\/em><br \/><em>However, it came close at 9,029 apps of which 88% (or 7,940) are free, according the blog, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winappupdate.com\/windows-store-taking-inventory-at-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>WinAppUpdate.com.<\/em><\/a><em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/windows-8-app-store-growing-155643779.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apps are Coming!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Apps are coming! &#8220;Good news for everyone who bought a Windows RT tablet or Windows 8 PC: the apps are coming!A lack of apps has been one of the big complaints for Windows 8, particularly the RT version, which doesn&#8217;t run Windows 7 apps. (Full Windows 8 PCs will run any app that works &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=3161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows Apps are Growing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","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=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}