{"id":5676,"date":"2013-05-09T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2013-05-09T09:30:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:30:58","slug":"is-windows-8-the-new-new-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/is-windows-8-the-new-new-coke\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Windows 8 the new &#8220;New Coke&#8221; ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will release a preview version of Windows Blue in June of this year. \u00a0So in order to keep you all up-to-date on the latest news about Windows, Windows 8, and \u00a0Microsoft&#8217;s apparent, upcoming admission that they have failed, once again, to keep the consumer&#8217;s wants and needs in mind when developing new products and operating systems, read on&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230;<a style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/4\/22\/4251610\/windows-8-1-start-button\">The Verge<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/microsofts-windows-8-plan-blue-bring-back-the-start-button-boot-to-desktop-7000014075\/\">ZDNet<\/a>\u00a0and other tech blogs have reported that the update could mean Microsoft reversing its decision to remove the start button from the system&#8217;s desktop environment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They also suggested it would give users the option of booting their PCs directly into Windows 8&#8217;s desktop mode rather than having to visit the tile-based Start menu screen first.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On Tuesday the Financial Times ran a front-page story suggesting that a U-turn over key elements of Windows 8 would mark &#8216;one of the most prominent admissions of failure for a new mass-market consumer product since Coca-Cola&#8217;s New Coke fiasco nearly 30 years ago&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/0aD3X\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Read the entire article here.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will release a preview version of Windows Blue in June of this year. \u00a0So in order to keep you all up-to-date on the latest news about Windows, Windows 8, and \u00a0Microsoft&#8217;s apparent, upcoming admission that they have failed, once again, to keep the consumer&#8217;s wants and needs in mind when developing new products and operating systems, read\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/is-windows-8-the-new-new-coke\/\">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":[1426,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676"}],"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=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5678,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions\/5678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}