{"id":6344,"date":"2014-07-18T07:22:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2014-07-18T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T14:22:13","slug":"more-windows-8-1-meh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=6344","title":{"rendered":"More Windows 8.1 Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lack of interest over Windows 8 isn’t a joke. It’s palpable.<\/p>\n

When I was in a local computer store recently, I asked the owner how many Windows 8 units he’d sold.<\/p>\n

“None.”<\/p>\n

Well, he sold a couple at first, but they returned and wanted Windows 7 installed instead.<\/p>\n

Now Lenovo, which sells far more computers than the local “Mom & Pop” store I frequent, has announced that it will no longer be shipping Windows 8.1 tablets. The reason: A lack of interest.<\/p>\n

Hello, Microsoft?<\/p>\n

Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lack of interest over Windows 8 isn’t a joke. It’s palpable. When I was in a local computer store recently, I asked the owner how many Windows 8 units he’d sold. “None.” Well, he sold a couple at first, but they returned and wanted Windows 7 installed instead. Now Lenovo, which sells far more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6346,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions\/6346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}