{"id":5474,"date":"2013-02-25T19:45:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T00:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2013-02-25T19:45:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T00:45:20","slug":"windows-blue-coming-to-you-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-blue-coming-to-you-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Blue coming to you&#8230; in August?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 launched last autumn, but according to several news reports, Windows Blue is coming to you in August 2013. It will be free for all Windows 8 users.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft continues its march toward &#8220;Apple-ization&#8221; &#8211; \u00a0as Apple for years has provided major operating system upgrades or updates free to its users. While MS has provided service packs to its users free for a long time, Windows Blue is more than service pack, it will be a major upgrade to Windows 8. Whether or not Windows 7 users can jump to Windows Blue and bypass Windows 8, we don&#8217;t know. In fact, Windows Blue may not even be its name. Right now it&#8217;s the code name Microsoft is using.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a report from Microsoft News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We all know from previous reports that Microsoft is working on a significant update for Windows 8 codenamed Blue that will be released this year. Now according to Win8china, Windows 8 Blue will be RTMd in June with preview available in coming months.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Windows Blue will include less UI changes and more under the hood improvements like low power consumption, better performance, better search integration, etc,.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/wLkSG\"><strong>Read the rest of that article here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 launched last autumn, but according to several news reports, Windows Blue is coming to you in August 2013. It will be free for all Windows 8 users. Microsoft continues its march toward &#8220;Apple-ization&#8221; &#8211; \u00a0as Apple for years has provided major operating system upgrades or updates free to its users. While MS has provided service packs\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-blue-coming-to-you-in-august\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}